John Mayberry and Ernie Whitt may have stolen some of the attention fans would have paid to Price, who was acquired by the Jays at last year’s trade deadline and helped lead them to their first postseason since 1993. Toronto centre fielder Kevin Pillar made a nice sliding catch for the third out on bloop hit by Travis Shaw.
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Toronto starter Aaron Sanchez allowed four runs (three earned) on five hits while striking out six over 6 2/3 innings.
Junichi Tazawa closed it out for Boston in the bottom of the 11th. He also is looking for a little more run support.
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.
In the end, neither got the decision.
Kimbrel allowed a two-out single to Smoak in the ninth.
The wheels came off for Dickey in the sixth.
Toronto Blue Jays’ Josh Donaldson (20) prepares to throw down his bat in frustration after hitting a pop fly out to right field against the Boston Red Sox during seventh inning baseball action in Toronto on Sunday, May 29, 2016.
After Ezequiel Carrera led off the inning with a bunt single, Donaldson showed off his power by driving the ball over the right field wall for his 13th homer of the season.
After an extended battle between Dickey and Xander Bogaerts, the shortstop extended his hit streak to 22 games with a grounder in the almost the same spot Pedroia went minutes before.
Travis Shaw had tied the game at 5 in the eighth when he drove in Dustin Pedroia, who has at least one hit in 21 straight games against the Blue Jays.
Left-hander Chad Girodo replaced Dickey and walked Jackie Bradley Jr. on a 3-2 pitch. Jesse Chavez relieved Girodo and retired both Josh Rutledge and Christian Vazquez to limit the damage. The Blue Jays took a 2-0 lead in the fifth on the 11th home run of the season by Bautista, who jumped on the first pitch and drilled it to left.
At 40 years of age, there is not long left in David Ortiz’s career but the Red Sox slugger is still going strong, hitting his 516th career home run.
Dustin Pedroia hit an RBI double in the 11th inning, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep.
Carrera, playing left-field for Michael Saunders, hit a grounder to first to start the inning. Edwin Encarnacion and Justin Smoak earned back-to-back two-out walks in the first, and quickly moved up on a wild pitch.
However, manager John Farrell felt his first baseman would have liked to have a do-over.
The Blue Jays and Red Sox met for the final game of their series Sunday afternoon in a match up of 2012 Cy Young winners R.A. Dickey, and former Blue Jay David Price.
Once Martin advanced to third following a wild pitch by Kimbrel (0-2), it was left to Travis to drive a groundball to third base, and even though Boston third baseman Travis Shaw relayed a throw to first, Hanley Ramirez couldn’t hang on and Toronto escaped with the win.
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Robbie Ross Jr. stranded two Blue Jays in the bottom of the ninth to send the game to extras. Russell Martin grounded out to third. Although Dickey did not have a strikeout to this point, generating plenty of weak contact kept the Red Sox lineup off of the scoreboard.
