Red Sox rally to beat Blue Jays 6-5 in 10 innings

TORONTO – The Boston Red Sox kept their slim playoff hopes live with a come-from-behind 6-5 triumph successful 10 innings against the Toronto Blue Jays connected Tuesday night.

Red Sox reliever Chris Martin earned his 3rd of the season. Blue Jays’ reliever Tommy Nance took the loss, dropping him to 0-3.

The Red Sox improved their grounds to 80-78, portion the Blue Jays dropped to a season-high 12 games beneath .500 astatine 73-85.

Blue Jays starter Bowden Francis was his typically ascendant aforesaid to statesman the game, striking retired the archetypal 2 batters helium faced earlier retiring archetypal baseman Triston Casas with a anemic alert out.

The Blue Jays continued their violative woes successful the bottommost of the first, however.

Shortstop Trevor Story began the game’s violative festivities with a treble to pb disconnected the 2nd inning and past precocious to 3rd connected a groundout by near fielder Masataka Yoshida. But Francis would enactment himself retired of occupation soon after, eliciting brushed fly-outs from 2nd baseman Vaughn Grissom and right-fielder Wilyer Abreu to support the Red Sox disconnected the scoresheet.

Third baseman Addison Barger earned the Blue Jays their archetypal baserunner of the crippled successful the bottommost of the second, ripping a hard-hit azygous to near tract aft moving a afloat count. The menace would beryllium short-lived, however, arsenic shortstop Ernie Clement would crushed retired to abbreviated connected the adjacent transportation to extremity the inning.

Stepping to the sheet arsenic an hostile for the archetypal clip astatine Rogers Centre, Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen grounded retired to 3rd to statesman the 3rd inning. Jarren Duran would scope basal with a azygous soon after, but Francis escaped erstwhile again by striking retired 3rd baseman Romy Gonzalez to discontinue the side.

Centre-fielder Joey Loperfido walked to statesman the bottommost of the 3rd and past stole 2nd to springiness the Blue Jays their archetypal runner successful scoring position. Left fielder Nathan Lukes walked arsenic good soon after, giving mode to prima slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who ripped a treble disconnected the centre tract partition to people some runners and springiness the Blue Jays a 2-0 lead.

Guerrero Jr. earned RBI No. 102 connected the season, making him 1 of conscionable 11 players successful MLB with implicit 100 successful 2024.

Francis would commencement the 4th inning with a walk, conscionable the 3rd helium had issued to that constituent successful his past 4 games. Once again, the 28-year-old would enactment his mode retired of trouble, archetypal sitting down Story connected strikes earlier getting Yoshida to crushed into a treble play to extremity the inning.

Grissom doubled disconnected the partition successful left-centre to pb disconnected the fifth, narrowly beating a beardown relay propulsion to descent harmless into second. But Francis responded again, getting Abreu to foul out, Jansen to crushed retired to third, and past Ceddanne Rafaela to alert retired to the right-field partition to support his shutout bid alive.

Right-hander Lucas Sims came retired of the bullpen to relieve Bello successful the sixth, giving up a leadoff locomotion to 2nd baseman Davis Schneider. The Blue Jays would adhd to their pb soon aft that arsenic George Springer doubled disconnected the partition successful left-centre 1 batter aboriginal earlier Nathan Lukes would people Schneider with a sacrifice fly, putting Toronto up 3-0.

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Boston would not spell distant quietly, however, arsenic the Red Sox started the sixth inning by loading the bases connected right-handed reliever Ryan Burr, placing the starring tally astatine the sheet successful Rafaela. Rafaela past singled done the spread astatine abbreviated to people 2 runners and chopped the Blue Jays’ pb to one. Burr would bounds the harm connected the adjacent at-bat, though, striking retired Duran swinging.

Right-hander Luis Garcia came connected successful alleviation successful the bottommost of the seventh inning and kept Boston’s comeback hopes alive. Garcia made speedy enactment of the Blue Jays’ hitters, retiring Joey Loperfido, Springer and Lukes successful conscionable 7 pitches.

Left-hander Genesis Cabrera would play set-up relation for Toronto heading into the eighth inning and proceeded to springiness up back-to-back singles to enactment runners connected archetypal and third. Yoshida wasted small clip tying the crippled successful the adjacent at-bat, bringing Gonzalez location connected a forceout. The tally marked Cabrera’s 3rd blown prevention of the season, with person Chad Green entering the crippled soon aft and keeping the crippled tied by getting pinch-hitter Nick Sogard to alert retired to near field.

With their post-season destiny hanging successful the balance, the Red Sox sent retired Chris Martin to transportation the ninth for the 2nd consecutive night. After walking Addison Barger, Martin got Clement to crushed retired into a treble play and Schneider to onslaught retired swinging to nonstop the crippled to an other inning.

Right-hander Tommy Nance entered the crippled for the Blue Jays successful the 10th inning and instantly recovered himself successful trouble, arsenic Story doubled to bring location 2 runners and springiness the Red Sox their archetypal pb of the game. Grissom would adhd an security tally connected a azygous to near tract arsenic the Red Sox held disconnected a surge by the Blue Jays successful the bottommost fractional of the 10th to unafraid the win.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Sept. 24, 2024.