TORONTO – Aaron Hill doubled home the go-ahead run in the sixth inning, Roy Halladay struck out nine and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Texas Rangers 6-4 on Friday night for their sixth straight home win.

Toronto is 32-20 at home and has outscored opponents 41-9 during the winning streak. The Blue Jays are 54-54 overall.

With the score 3-3, Vernon Wells singled off Jamey Wright (3-4) leading off the sixth and took third when the reliever fielded Frank Thomas’ comebacker and threw the ball into center field for an error. Hill doubled to left, and Gregg Zaun followed with a two-run single.

Halladay (12-5) allowed four runs and seven hits in six-plus innings. Casey Janssen relieved with runners at the corners in the seventh and gave up an RBI single to Ian Kinsler. Michael Young then hit into a forceout, and Marlon Byrd grounded into a double play.

Janssen pitched a scoreless eighth, and Jeremy Accardo finished for his 19th save in 23 chances.

Texas dropped to 2-5 on a nine-game trip that followed a season-high, four-game winning streak. Kevin Millwood, winless in his last five starts, gave up three runs and eight hits in four innings.

Byrd tripled home Frank Catalanotto in the first to put Texas ahead, but Toronto took a 3-1 lead in the bottom half on Wells’ RBI single and Thomas’ two-run double. The rally ended when Thomas was struck on the leg by Hill’s single to center and was called out by second-base umpire Mike Estabrook.

Texas tied it 3-3 in the second on a two-out, two-run single by Kinsler, who had three RBIs.

Notes: Alex Rios reached on an infield single in the third when his chopper became stuck in third baseman Ramon Vazquez’s glove.

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