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 Josh Thole and Colby Rasmus each added an RBI and Jose Reyes
scored for the Blue Jays, who grabbed a 2-1 lead in the four-game
series. R.A. Dickey (8-10) did just enough to earn the win by
allowing four runs and nine hits in six innings, and Casey Janssen
worked a perfect ninth for his 15th save.
David Ortiz hit his fourth home run of the series and 24th of the
season and Xander Bogaerts doubled in a run for the Red Sox, who
have dropped back-to-back contests for the first time since a
four-game slide from July 5-8. Clay Buchholz (5-6) yielded five runs
- four earned - on six hits and four walks in six innings to absorb
the loss.
Boston seized a 4-3 lead on Bogaerts’ double in the fifth but the
rookie helped contribute to squandering the advantage in the sixth.
Goins plated Thole with a triple to right-center for the tying run
and then came across to score the go-ahead run when Bogaerts bounced
a throw to first for an error.
Shane Victorino and Dustin Pedroia led off the game with
back-to-back singles in front of Ortiz, who reached down for a 3-1
knuckleball and sent it off the facing of the fourth deck in right
for a quick 3-0 edge. Toronto responded right away with three runs
in the bottom of the frame as Bautista’s double scored Reyes, Rasmus
delivered an RBI groundout and Thole sent a ground-rule double over
the wall in left.
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GAME NOTEBOOK: Ortiz’s home run was his 37th at Rogers Centre,
breaking a tie with Alex Rodriguez for the most by an opposing
player. The blast gave him 1,501 career RBIs, making him the 53rd
player in history to cross the 1,500 mark. … Toronto RHP Aaron
Sanchez made his major-league debut and struck out a pair in two
perfect innings. … Both Buchholz and Dickey were hit by comebackers
early in the game, with the former taking a grounder off the right
side of his face in the first and the latter getting one in the back
in the following frame.
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