After pitching coach Pete Walker visited the mound to talk to his pitcher, Dickey hit Hanley Ramirez with a pitch to bring Pedroia in, tying the game. With two outs in the ninth and an 0-2 count on Jays first baseman Justin Smoak, Kimbrel allowed a line-drive single into center field.
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Bautista took an 88 miles per hour offering from Price deep to left, ringing the foul pole near the fifth deck to give Toronto a 2-0 lead.
Your teams on the go or at home. Home plate umpire Mike DiMuro left the game in the second inning after he was struck in the face mask by a foul ball.
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. The Red Sox start a four-game series at Baltimore on Monday.
Bogaerts is 1-for-3 with a run in this game. Travis Shaw reached on the shortstop’s errant throw to first base, and eventually came around on a ground ball by Jackie Bradley Jr. Toronto centre fielder Kevin Pillar made a nice sliding catch for the third out on bloop hit by Travis Shaw.
Boston would fight back to take the lead 3-2 in the next half inning following a one out triple Mookie Betts triple into the right-center gap.
Christian Vazquez got Boston’s fifth-inning rally started with a one-out double. Betts scored on a single to left field by Dustin Pedroia, which extended his streak of 23 straight games with a hit against the Jays.
“(Big) Papi going out there and hitting the home run that was huge for us, and it was very disappointing that I wasn’t able to close the door after that”, Kimbrel said after watching the Boston bullpen surrender a season-high six earned runs.
Price got into a little trouble in his first inning – issuing a pair of two-out walks that moved into scoring position after a wild pitch – but ultimately escaped unscathed when he induced an inning-ending groundout from Devon Travis. The next batter, Shaw, walked to load the bases with one out. Bogaerts kept the party going with a single to left, extending his hit streak to 22 games.
Loup had a 4.46 earned-run average with 46 strikeouts in 42 1/3 innings last season. He hit Saunders with a pitch.
Kimbrel struck out Pillar before Bautista singled to right to tie the game.
– Ross got Carrera to ground out to retire the side in the eighth, then worked around a walk and a single in the ninth to force extras.
Edwin Encarnacion tied the game in the bottom of the 8th on a leadoff solo shot off of Heath Hembree, his 10th of the season.
Toronto scored three runs in the third inning off Red Sox starter Rick Porcello. The Red Sox are also 5-0 in their last five games played on Sunday, are 9-1 in their last 10 games during Game 3 of a series, and have won eight of 10 road games versus an opponent with a winning record.
Notes: It was Toronto’s eighth home sellout of the season. He completed his minor league rehabilitation assignment with Triple-A Buffalo.
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Jimmy Paredes ran for Smoak at second base.Kevin Pillar flied out and left-hander Robbie Ross Jr. entered to retire pinch-hitter Russell Martin on a grounder to third.Blue Jays right-hander Joe Biagini pitched a ideal eighth and survived two ninth-inning singles.The Blue Jays put two runners on base against Ross in the ninth on Josh Donaldson’s two-out single to right and a walk by Encarnacion.Paredes, who stayed in the game to play right field with Bautista moving to first base, struck out to send the game to extra innings.The Blue Jays’ Roberto Osuna extended his streak to 14 2/3 scoreless innings when he pitched around a single, a walk and two wild pitches in the 10th.NOTES: Boston DH David Ortiz (sore left foot) was a late scratch from the lineup and is listed as day-to-day.
