TORONTO – Former Cy Young Award winner Roy Halladay is expected to miss four to six weeks after having an emergency appendectomy Friday, the latest bad break for the struggling Toronto Blue Jays.

Halladay arrived at Rogers Centre on Friday looking pale and complaining of pain in his lower right abdomen. Trainer George Poulis recognized the symptoms and took Halladay to a local hospital for surgery.

Halladay was placed on the 15-day disabled list. The Blue Jays did not immediately announce a roster move.

“You’ve got to look at it as a chance for someone else to step up,” Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi said. “We’re not going to sit here and raise the white flag, say we’re quitting.”

“We’ve got some young kids who are going to get an opportunity now. We’ll see who can handle coming up here and giving us those innings, giving us a chance to win.”

Halladay lasted only five innings and was hit hard in an 8-0 loss to Boston on Thursday, one start after giving up a season-high nine runs in an 11-4 loss to Texas. The 2003 AL Cy Young Award winner is 4-2 with a 4.37 ERA in eight starts.

Giambi out; Mariners put Weaver on DL

SEATTLE (AP) – A spur near his left heel kept Jason Giambi out of the lineup for the third straight game.

New York manager Joe Torre said Giambi, a late scratch Friday night, will get custom-fitted orthotics for the problem. But they won’t arrive for about a week. Torre originally put Giambi in the lineup for the series opener Friday night. Then the manager said he was going to watch the left-handed batting Giambi take batting practice before deciding whether to rest him and save him for Saturday night, when the Mariners will start right-hander Miguel Batista. Jarrod Washburn, a lefty, started the series opener.

The Mariners placed struggling right-hander Jeff Weaver on the 15-day disabled list, believing shoulder tendinitis may be at the root of his winless record and inflated ERA.

Seattle called up left-handed reliever Ryan Rowland-Smith from Triple-A Tacoma to take Weaver’s roster spot.

Weaver has been a flop after signing a one-year, $8,325,000 contract to be the Mariners’ No. 5 starter. He is 0-6 with a 14.32 ERA in six starts. In 22 innings, he has given up 50 hits and 35 earned runs.