TORONTO \u2014 Ernie Clement hit a two-run homer and Kazuma Okamoto drove in two runs to power the Toronto Blue Jays to an 8-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had three hits and Brandon Valenzuela hit a solo shot and scored three times as the Blue Jays won their third series in a row. <\/p>\n
George Springer returned to the lineup after a 15-game injury absence and had a pinch-hit RBI single as Toronto (14-16) won for the seventh time in 10 games.<\/p>\n
Willson Contreras hit a solo homer for the Red Sox, who fell to 12-19.<\/p>\n
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Ernie Clement Toronto Blue Jays’ Ernie Clement (22) ducks the initial attempt to throw Gatorade on him after his team’s 8-1 win over the Boston Red Sox in MLB baseball action in Toronto on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Chris Young <\/p>\n
Okamoto had a two-run single in Toronto\u2019s three-run third inning. Clement turned on a pitch from Boston starter Brayan Bello (1-4) in the next frame for his first homer of the season.<\/p>\n
Toronto starter Eric Lauer was pulled after loading the bases with one out in the fifth inning. Braydon Fisher (2-0) needed two pitches to escape the jam with a double play.<\/p>\n
Valenzuela went deep in the eighth inning for his second homer of the year.<\/p>\n
Takeaways<\/p>\n
Blue Jays: Springer, who was activated about an hour before the game, was given a standing ovation by the sellout crowd of 41,314 when he came on in the fifth inning. The four-time all-star fractured his big toe in a game on April 11. <\/p>\n
Red Sox: Toronto outhit Boston 10-9. The Red Sox had limited opponents to three runs or fewer in each of their previous four games. <\/p>\n
Key Moment<\/p>\n
In the fifth inning, Contreras lined out to shortstop Andres Gimenez, who threw to Clement at second base to double off Caleb Durbin.<\/p>\n
Key Stat<\/p>\n
Yohendrick Pinango recorded his first career RBI when he drove in Guerrero in the third inning.<\/p>\n
Coming Up<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays will send ace Kevin Gausman (2-1, 2.57 ERA) to the mound Thursday at Minnesota against fellow right-hander Bailey Ober (2-1, 3.94). The Red Sox get an off-day before welcoming the Houston Astros on Friday.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 29, 2026. <\/p>\n
Gregory Strong, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Ernie Clement hit a two-run homer and Kazuma Okamoto drove in two runs to power the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,82,3302],"class_list":["post-637349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}