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 Bautista finished with three hits, scored twice and drove in a
pair for the Blue Jays, who defeated the Red Sox for the fourth
straight time and have won eight of 10 overall. Buehrle (8-1)
avenged his only loss of the season to Boston on April 25 by
allowing two runs on seven hits over seven innings.
Jon Lester (4-6) lasted 6 1/3 innings, but gave up all seven of his
runs and seven of his 10 hits over the first two frames to fall to
1-4 at home. Jonny Gomes knocked in a run with a first-inning single
while Xander Bogaerts added a solo shot as Boston has lost seven in
a row for the first time since ending the 2012 season on an
eight-game slide.
Cabrera ignited Toronto’s offense in emphatic fashion five pitches
into the opening frame when he drove a 1-0 sinker from Lester out of
the park to left. Bautista followed with a mammoth blast of his own
on the next pitch, crushing a fastball off the light tower in
left-center.
After Gomes made it 2-1 in the bottom half, six of the first seven
Toronto hitters reached in the second and Jose Reyes ignited a
five-run inning with a two-run single. Bautista and Edwin
Encarnacion followed with run-scoring singles after Cabrera drew a
walk while a fielder’s choice RBI grounder by Brett Lawrie capped
the Blue Jays’ scoring before Bogaerts homered to lead off the
second.
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GAME NOTEBOOK: Boston, which was swept by the Detroit Tigers earlier
this week, went winless during a homestand of six or more games for
only the second time in franchise history (0-6, June 10-15, 1994). …
Encarnacion, who recorded four homers and seven RBIs over the first
two contests of this series to become the first player since
Colorado's Troy Tulowitzki (September 2010) to tally four two-homer
games in a month, finished 2-for-5 with a pair of singles. … Blue
Jays DH Kevin Pillar singled three times to record his first career
three-hit game.
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