BOSTON (AP) — Raimel Tapia scored three hits and four runs to give him 10 RBIs for the series, and Vladimir Guerrero hit four for the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday as he completed 8 for the Boston Red Sox. Scored from -4. A three-game sweep.
Two days after having an in-the-park Grand Slam in Tapia’s record-setting 28-5 victory, she had Toronto base-loaded on top Boston prospect Brian Bello (0-2) for a 5-0 lead. was triple. – One of five players in the Red Sox lineup who started the season in the minors.
The Blue Jays also took advantage of three errors and a series of other mistakes by Boston, just half a game from last place in the AL East.
On the day David Ortiz was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame about a four-hour drive west, the Red Sox lost their fifth straight game, their ninth of the last 10, and their 13th of 16. Boston, which had a season 11 games over .500 on June 27, has not won a series this season against an AL East rival in 12 tries.
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In a 98-degree heat and already trailing 5–1, the Red Sox were booed by the home crowd in the second inning when George Springer stole second base and finished third when Christian Vazquez’s throw outfield. Went in and got kicked around. Left fielder by Franchi Cordero.
Tim Myza (4-0) won as the most effective reliever after playing a double in the seventh. Toronto starter Ross Stripling allowed two runs in four innings before reliever Trevor Richards dropped two more when Jaren Duran scored in the triple and fifth, Jackie Bradley Jr., a single homer in the sixth, 8–4. made from
But the biggest excitement of the day was when a clip of Ortiz’s acceptance speech was played on the scoreboard.
The Red Sox could use him. Instead, the lineup was missing ailing All-Stars JD Martinez and Rafael Devers and top off-season takeover Trevor Story, with the bottom five in the batting order all hitting worse than .220.
Bello conceded five runs in nine hits and two walks, scoring two runs in four innings; They have yet to finish fifth in any of their three major leagues. But this time he got hurt by some bad luck and some poor defence.
Toronto loaded base on two softly hit balls in the first innings – one that bounced off third base – and a walk, then Cavan Bigio joined third baseman Jeter Downs for a two-run single which was also booted by Cordero. Tapia made it 5-0 on a base-loaded triple to right-center gap.
The Blue Jays added three more in the fifth, which began when Hirokazu Sawamura ran leadoff batsman Teoscar Hernandez after the Red Sox reliever put his fingers to his mouth on a 2–1 count after a warning, resulting in two. Automatic balls happened.
Hernandez came on Tapia’s single to score, and another run was scored as Downs bowled the ball past a baserunner on his way home; Downs also muffed a regular grounder. The final run came when pitcher Sawamura first covered the right side of the infield on a dribbler but overruns the bag.
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Red Sox: Martinez was available to pinch hit despite back spasm and could return to the lineup on Monday night. … the story changed as he recovered from an injured right arm. INF/OF Kike Hernandez reports progress as he works his way back from a right hip flexor strain.
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Blue Jays: Closed on Monday, host Cardinals on Tuesday, with RHP Jose Berios (7-4) facing St. Louis RHP Andre Palante (3-4).
Red Sox: With RHP Nick Pivetta (8-7), open a four-game series against the Guardians to face Cleveland RHP Zach Plesack (2-7).
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