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(STATS) -- The FCS national championship game may not have the fanfare of the Magic City Classic between Alabama A&M and Alabama State.The SWAC rivals usually play before the biggest crowd of the FCS season, and with their annual classic celebrating its 75th renewal on Saturday, they may sell out 71,594-seat Legion Field in Birmingham. Last years game drew 63,874.There will be a two-hour parade in the morning and hip hop artist Ludacris will give a one-hour concert after the game. The economic impact on the city will be in the millions.It barely matters that both teams are 2-5 overall and 2-4 in the conference because their matchup trumps everything else they do during a season.Ive been in the John Merritt Classic and the Florida Classic, Alabama State second-year coach Brian Jenkins said, but the Magic City Classic outshines them all. Its very overwhelming. Its a wonderful event and I couldnt be more proud to be a part of this event. But, through all the good things like the sponsorships, the media, the pictures, and all the words we say on the good end, its about that time that we have to get ready to rumble.The overall series pre-dates the start of the Magic City Classic. Alabama A&M leads 39-37-3, although Alabama State won last years game on Halloween 35-20. Cheap Custom Mets Jersey .C. -- Al Jefferson joked that he feels he can score from anywhere on the court. Wholesale Custom Mets Shirts . Miikka Kiprusoff had just announced his retirement after a decade-long run in Calgary and it would be up to Berra and Ramo to fill the void. http://www.custommetsjersey.com/ . 31, the CFL club announced Monday. The team also has yet to decide on the future of Doug Berry, who began the season as a consultant to the head coach but took over the offensive co-ordinators duties in July. Cheap Mets Jerseys . This should be celebrated because it will not always be this way. 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"I didnt even battle them," Johnson said. "Everything was in the middle of the plate. So theres nothing else I can do but take it. Yeah, that was a pretty poor performance." Ellis had four hits including a two-run homer as the Dodgers extended their winning streak to four games. "Hes been pretty good all year, really," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "For me, hes just consistent. He gives you good at-bats all the time. Its not always hits but youre always going to get a quality at-bat from A.J. Hes a guy who knows what hes doing up there." Skip Schumaker also drove in three runs with a home run for the Dodgers (51-47) while the Blue Jays (45-53) were outhit only 16-13. South Korean left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu (8-3) allowed four runs in 5 1/3 innings to pick up his second win in his past three starts. Cheered on by a large contingent of fans in the stands along the right-field line, he gave up nine hits and two walks while striking out three. "That was definitely more than I expected here in Toronto," Ryu said of his cheering section. "I was very appreciative of that, it was a big help for me." Blue Jays manager John Gibbons was less appreciative and more selective in his words. "I probably cant say it right there," he said. "It wasnt a very good game. We got whipped all the way around. Josh, they took it to him. Even our bullpen tonight everybody gave a little up. We were sloppy defensively, it was just a crappy game, it really was." Andre Ethier doubled with one out in the second and A.J. Ellis hit his fifth homer of the season to give the Dodgers a 2-0 lead. Johnson hit Juan Uribe with a pitch with two out and Mark Ellis singled. Carl Crawford singled in a run and Ellis took third on a throwing error by centre-fielder Colby Rasmus. Yasiel Puig singled in the fourth run. The Dodgers chased Johnson in the third. Ethier led off with a double and scored on a single by A.J. Ellis to make the score 5-0. A wild pitch and a catchers interference put runners at first and second with none out before left-hander Aaron Loup replaced Johnson. Johnson was at a loss to explain what has gone wrong for him this season as his earned-run average sits at 5.66. "I dont know," he said. "The ball is in the middle of the plate and its pretty easy to see why they hiit it all over the place.dddddddddddd. One day itll be really good and then the next day it will be back to square one. Its been really inconsistent. I dont know. "Sometimes I feel like I make a pretty good pitch -- not today -- but in past games I make a pretty good pitch and all of a sudden you get base hits, bloopers fall and balls get through. But today I didnt make a good pitch." Gibbons said theres no plans to change the rotation, and that Johnson isnt going anywhere. "What Ive seen of Josh hes just scattering too much," Gibbons said. "Hes inconsistent in the zone making his pitches. He has a tendency to yank it to his glove side where he gets in trouble. You feel for the guy because hes competing but it just hasnt happened. Its not for a lack of effort but basically it comes down to locating the ball and hes had trouble doing that." The Blue Jays tried to get back into the game. They scored twice in the third started by Edwin Encarnacions two-out infield single. Adam Lind walked and Melky Cabrera singled in a run. Mark DeRosa had an RBI single to right when Schumaker could not hold his sinking drive to cut the lead to 5-2. The Dodgers scored once in the fourth. Adrian Gonzalez led off with a walk, took third on a single by Hanley Ramirez and came home when Ethier grounded into a double play. The Dodgers added four in the sixth against Dustin McGowan and Brett Cecil. After a walk and the second error of the game by Lind, A.J. Ellis picked up his fourth RBI of the game with a single. Uribes groundout to shortstop scored another run. Mark Ellis hit a sacrifice fly and Crawford had an RBI single to make the score 10-2. The Blue Jays scored twice in the sixth. After two singles, a fielders choice grounder by Brett Lawrie of Langley, B.C., scored one. A wild pitch by reliever Jose Dominguez scored the other. The Dodgers scored four against reliever Steve Delabar in the seventh, three on Schumakers first homer of the season that followed a single by A.J. Ellis that gave him his fifth RBI. "RBIs are a product of guys getting on base in front of me and I had three guys who I felt like were on base every time I came up with Adrian, Hanley and Andre," Ellis said. The Blue Jays scored once in the eighth on DeRosas double and Rasmus single. NOTES: Attendance at Rogers Centre was 34,515. ... Blue Jays left-hander J.A. Happ (right knee sprain) is scheduled to pitch at triple-A Buffalo on Tuesday on his rehabilitation assignment. ...In 148 games career games against the Blue Jays, Mattingly had a .324 batting average, third behind the .325 he hit against Oakland and Texas. ..In eight career starts against the Dodgers, Johnson has a 6.69 earned-run average. ... Toronto sends out RHP Todd Redmond (1-1, 4.32 ERA) against L.A. LHP Chris Capuano (3-6, 4.63 ERA) in Tuesdays second game of the series. ' ' '