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The game was his second-straight nine-inning masterpiece – on Sunday he shut down the Boston Red Sox in a 3-1 win – but was it also a coda to his Blue Jay career?

Halladay doesn't think so, even as trade speculation continues.

"Right now, yeah I think I'll be here (beyond the trade deadline)," he said after last night's game. "If there was an urgency (for me) to be somewhere else or an urgency from the team to have me somewhere else it would be different. (But) I just don't get that feeling."

Jays manager Cito Gaston hasn't abandoned hope that Halladay will stick around, mentioning before the game that he had pencilled in the ace's starts through September.