TORONTO -- Blue Jays fans relived one of Roy Halladay’s classic outings on Tuesday, and in classic Doc fashion, it didn't take much time.

The Blue Jays’ matchup with the White Sox from May 31, 2007, featured Halladay up against Mark Buehrle, two masters of the two-hour ballgame (this matchup lasts only one hour and 50 minutes).

Returning to the mound just 20 days after an appendectomy -- well ahead of the average recovery timeline -- Halladay tossed seven shutout innings with seven strikeouts on just 96 pitches for his 100th career victory. Coincidentally, Buehrle was also chasing win No. 100 that night.

After beginning May with two of the poorest starts of his career, allowing a combined 16 earned runs on 23 hits over 10 1/3 innings, Halladay used his three weeks off to study what had gone wrong.

“You have to get something out of these situations,” he told the Toronto Star following this game in 2007. “So I had plenty of time to sit in the video room.”

Buehrle took the loss, but he turned in a classic outing of his own, working eight innings and allowing just two hits. Unfortunately for him, both of those hits were solo home runs off the bats of Aaron Hill and Frank Thomas.

Others worth watching for included the great slugger Jim Thome, who was held to just a walk by Halladay, and the Blue Jays' bullpen, which completed the shutout. Vernon Wells, Lyle Overbay, Troy Glaus, Alex Rios and John McDonald were featured in Toronto’s lineup.