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Toronto Blue Jays at Boston Red Sox

Toronto Blue Jays      4
Boston Red Sox         3

Status: Final

Line score

             1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9     R    H    E
Blue Jays    1    1    0    0    0    0    1    0    1     4   10    0
Red Sox      0    0    0    0    0    0    1    2    0     3    5    0

Scoring summary

T9         TOR    4-  3  Valenzuela doubled to left, Clement scored.
B8         BOS    3-  3  Durbin homered to left center (386 feet).
B8         BOS    3-  2  Kiner-Falefa homered to left (360 feet).
B7         BOS    3-  1  Contreras grounded out to shortstop, Rafaela
                         scored.
T7         TOR    3-  0  Lukes homered to right center (392 feet).
T2         TOR    2-  0  Gimenez hit sacrifice fly to left, Okamoto
                         scored.
T1         TOR    1-  0  Guerrero Jr. homered to center (410 feet).

Headline

After a misplayed foul pop, Valenzuela hits go-ahead double in Blue Jays' 4-3 win over Red Sox

BOSTON -- Brandon Valenzuela hit a go-ahead RBI double off Aroldis Chapman with two outs in the ninth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays completed a three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox with a 4-3 win Thursday.

Valenzuelas tiebreaking hit clanked off the Green Monster and came after Red Sox catcher Connor Wong misplayed a pop-up in foul territory that would have been the final out of the ninth.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr . and Nathan Lukes homered for Toronto, which has taken five of six matchups against Boston this season.

Trailing 3-1, the Red Sox tied it in the eighth on back-to-back homers by Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Caleb Durbin .

Tommy Nance (1-2) picked up the win after recording the final two outs in the eighth and Mason Fluharty pitched a perfect ninth for his first save of the season.

Chapman (0-2) took the loss as Boston fell to 12-25 at Fenway Park and 6-17 against AL East teams this season.

Guerrero jumped on the first pitch he saw from Red Sox starter Sonny Gray for a 410-foot homer that landed in the first row of the Green Monster seats. The first-inning blast was his fourth home run of the season and first since May 17.

Toronto starter Trey Yesavage carried a shutout into the seventh, but left with the game tied at 3. The right-hander struck out six and walked none while allowing three runs in 7 1/3 innings.

Gray allowed three runs including solo homers by Guerrero and Lukes and six hits over seven innings. The right-hander struck out seven and walked one.

Before the consecutive homers by Kiner-Falefa and Durbin in the eighth, the Red Sox snapped a 16-inning scoreless in the seventh when Wilson Contreras drove in Ceddanne Rafaela on a grounder.

Up next

Blue Jays: RHP Kevin Gausman (4-4, 3.41 ERA) starts Friday at Wrigley Field against Chicago RHP Ben Brown (3-2, 1.74).

Red Sox: Travel to Seattle for a weekend series that begins Friday night. Boston LHP Ranger Suarez (2-3, 3.21) starts opposite Seattle RHP Bryce Miller (3-0, 1.54).

AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb


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