Ted Lilly got the second opinion he wanted but in the end all it did was back up the first.
Lilly said he was concerned that he may do further damage to the biceps if he kept throwing.
"It was encouraging and kind of comforting," Lilly said of the second opinion. "Basically he said as long as I could deal with it, he didn't feel that I would injure myself further or that it would be a foolish risk to keep throwing."
"I kind of had mixed feelings before," he said. "There were some days I would throw and feel OK and then there were times Iwould go out there and throw and it felt like I could be doing some damage."
Lilly will take a day off to allow the dye that was shot into his shoulder to disperse and then resume throwing.
Jays manager John Gibbons feels a rehab stint is probably warranted given the time Lilly has missed -- he has been out since July 24 -- but that will depend on how soon he can get his arm ready for game action again.
There are only two weeks left in the minor league season so it's going to be a pretty tight window.
GOOD AT THE GATE
The Jays are enjoying a renaissance of sorts when it comes to ticket sales and popularity this season. At the ticket window the team is enjoying an 18% increase over sales of a year ago through 59 home games. That's an 18% increase.
Interest on the tube is also up. Rogers Sportsnet games have drawn audiences 76% larger than last season while TSN's viewership for Jays games is up 45%.
DOWN ON THE FARM
Catcher Guillermo Quiroz is starting to make up for some of his lost time. Quiroz, who lost the better part of the past two seasons after back-to-back episodes of a collapsed lung, hit a pair of homers in Syracuse's 9-4 win over Ottawa on Monday night. Quiroz now has six home runs in the 18 games since his return ... The Jays signed 10-year major league veteran shortstop Desi Relaford to a minor league deal on the weekend. Relaford was to make his first start for triple-A Syracuse last night.
