Cubs avoid being swept by Blue Jays with 2-0 victory

CHICAGO -- Sergio Mitre allowed two hits over seven shutout innings and added an RBI double off Roy Halladay to help the Chicago Cubs beat the Toronto Blue Jays 2-0, avoiding a three-game sweep.\nMitre (1-1) retired the first 13 batters, getting 10 groundball outs and striking out three before Aaron Hill beat out a high chopper to third with one out in the fifth for an infield single.\nWith one out in the sixth, Reed Johnson delivered Toronto's first ball out of the infield, a line drive single to center on a 3-2 pitch. He made it to second on an infield out but was stranded when Cubs third baseman Aramis Ramirez made a nice play on Vernon Wells' grounder in the hole and threw him out.\nMitre, in his second stint with the Cubs this season after a recall from the minors May 24, walked one and struck out six during a 105-pitch effort on a humid afternoon at Wrigley Field.\nMichael Weurtz pitched the eighth and Ryan Dempster completed the three-hitter by striking out the side in the ninth for his seventh save.\nHalladay (9-3) had his five-game winning streak snapped, allowing seven hits and two runs in seven innings with five strikeouts.\nHe entered the game having allowed just two earned runs in his previous 39 innings, but the Cubs matched that in the third inning, thanks to Mitre's fourth major league hit.\nTodd Hollandsworth doubled to left for the Cubs' first hit and scored when Mitre sent a hard grounder past third for another double. Mitre then scored when Corey Patterson hit a hard hopper through the box that went past Halladay and into center for an RBI single.\nMitre had another chance to help himself in the fourth when the Cubs loaded the bases with two outs, but his ground ball to short for a force play ended the inning.