Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista has had his one-game suspension upheld by Major League Baseball and will serve his penalty Friday, missing Toronto’s home game against the Boston Red Sox. The Jays got to David Price first. Toronto centre fielder Kevin Pillar made a nice sliding catch for the third out on bloop hit by Travis Shaw.
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The Cincinnati Reds ended an 11-game losing run after edging out the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6, while a pair of three-run homers from Buster Posey helped the San Francisco Giants see off the Colorado Rockies 10-5.
Junichi Tazawa closed it out for Boston in the bottom of the 11th. The Sox had David Price on the mound vs. R.A. Dickey for the Jays.
The Red Sox suffered a number of “unfortunate situations” on Saturday, between two wild pitches, two hit batters, two failed replay reviews, Ramirez’s being thrown out while stretching after a two-run single and a few close balls to Jays batters that many on the Boston roster felt were strikes.
CUBS 7, PHILLIES 2 (at Chicago) – Ben Zobrist hit a three-run homer, John Lackey pitched seven solid innings, and Chicago completed a sweep. Joe Biagini (2-1) got four outs for the win, and Roberto Osuna pitched the ninth for his 11th save.
The wheels came off for Dickey in the sixth.
RED SOX 1. Betts RF 2.
Blue Jays: RHP Marcus Stroman (5-1, 3.89) is 4-0 with a 2.38 ERA in five career starts against Boston. Bogaerts kept the party going with a single to left, extending his hit streak to 22 games.
Bautista was one of seven Blue Jays players and coaches penalized after a bench-clearing brawl at Texas on May 15.
Dickey hit Hanley Ramirez with a pitch to tie the game at two before reliever Chad Girodo replaced the knuckleballer. He allowed two earned runs.
“I was just trying to battle and put the ball in play”, said Travis, who has hit safely in all four games he has played since coming off the DL on Wednesday.
Bautista hit the top of the left-field pole on a first-pitch offering by Price to score himself and Ezequiel Carrera who opened the inning with a single to right.
Evan Longoria and Hank Conger went deep as the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the New York Yankees 9-5, Chase Utley’s grand slam and a solo homer lifted the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 9-1 thrashing of the New York Mets, and 11 runs on 12 singles and a double from Cleveland saw the Indians comfortably beat the Baltimore Orioles 11-4.
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.
Carrera, playing left-field for Michael Saunders, hit a grounder to first to start the inning. Travis popped out to Shaw before Darwin Barney singled through the left side of the infield.
Catcher Josh Thole then moved Carrera to second on a sacrifice bunt, resulting in Red Sox manager John Farrell taking Price out of the game for right-handed reliever Heath Hembree. After tying the game with a four-run rally in the eighth inning, the Blue Jays scored twice more in the ninth to pull out a 10-9 win for their fourth consecutive victory. Russell Martin grounded out to third.
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A false fire alarm did nothing to lift the mood in the Boston Red Sox’s locker room Friday night. Pedroia later scored after Shaw hit a hard ground ball to the right side, which couldn’t be retrieved by Smoak or Travis.
