It was Toronto’s eighth home sellout of the season. Bautista also looked comfortable playing first base for the first time since 2014. Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz was scratched with a sore left foot.
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They snapped the Yankees’ six game-winning streak on Wednesday, with Michael Saunders hitting a homer and Russell Saunders hitting his first two of the season.
TWINS 5, MARINERS 4 (at Seattle) – Joe Mauer and Miguel Sano each homered for a third straight game and Minnesota completed a three-game sweep.
“I didn’t really have a swing and miss knuckleball today”, Dickey said.
A walk and a hit-by-pitch later, Dickey’s afternoon was done and the Red Sox were on their way to a three-run, bat-around inning.
After facing just one over the minimum in the first three innings, Sanchez ran into trouble in the fourth, where he allowed three one-out singles to Xander Bogaerts, Shaw and Hanley Ramirez, which tied the game 2-2. At that point, manager John Gibbons signaled for left-hander Chad Girodo to come in and face Jackie Bradley Jr. Estrada has the worst run support of any Toronto starting pitcher at 2.5 runs per game.
“Nothing serious, but enough to put me on the DL”, Tulowitzki said before Saturday’s game after an MRI found a “low-grade” strain.
“I was able to lay off some tough sliders to finally get a fastball that found quite a bit of the plate”, Martin said.
The Red Sox threatened in the ninth.
“They did a heck of a job”, Farrell said.
Blake Swihart drew a one-out walk against Gavin Floyd (2-4) and moved to third when Floyd threw a wild ball four to the next batter, Mookie Betts. Betts walked as well and the Pedroia knocked Swihart in when he hit an RBI ground rule double. Pedroia went 2 for 6 with two RBIs.
Removed from Boston’s rotation Friday after losing his previous two starts, Buchholz (3-5) worked one inning for the win in his first relief appearance since August 17, 2008. Travis made a good play to field it and get it to first but the Boston catcher beat the throw. Poor results in Buchholz’s first 10 starts resulted in his demotion to the bullpen on Friday, and while the veteran righty clearly was not pleased about his situation, he said he was trying to make the best of it while still getting the hang of his new assignment. “I don’t think anybody in here is discouraged”. His last outing was last Tuesday against the Rockies, when he pitched seven innings and allowed three runs on five hits and a a walk with six strikeouts, and the Boston offense provided him with plenty of support in an 8-3 win.
Making his first start in Toronto since helping the Blue Jays reach the American League Championship Series last October, David Price gave up two runs and five hits in 6 1/3 innings, leaving to a loud ovation from the crowd of 47,916.
“I just felt it too many times”. “A standing ovation is always good”.
Christian Vazquez got Boston’s fifth-inning rally started with a one-out double.
Robbie Ross Jr. stranded two Blue Jays in the bottom of the ninth to send the game to extras.
The Red Sox then took advantage of a tiring Toronto bullpen to steal the victory. Price’s only blemish was allowing a two-run homer off of the foul pole netting to Bautista in the fifth inning.
Price’s stay in Toronto was short but highly successful, with the five-time All-Star amassing a 9-1 record and a 2.30 ERA in 11 regular-season starts after being acquired from Detroit in late July to help the Blue Jays end a 22-year postseason drought. Josh Rutledge was given yet another terrific opportunity to break the game open, but an easy fly out to Kevin Pillar kept the Red Sox off of the scoreboard. That silenced the sellout crowd of 48,154 at Rogers Centre that was riding high after the Blue Jays tied the game with a four-run eighth inning.
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But all the pomp and circumstance seemed to do was tiresome the bats of the current lineup as the Boston Red Sox (30-20) came back to top Toronto (26-26) 5-3 in extra innings at Rogers Centre on Sunday.
