{"id":856166,"date":"2026-08-13T04:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/856166\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T04:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:42:08","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-explode-in-eighth-inning-top-boston-red-sox-for-third-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/856166\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays explode in eighth inning, top Boston Red Sox for third straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 Kazuma Okamoto<\/a> singled home Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a> for the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth inning before the floodgates opened as the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> topped the Boston Red Sox<\/a> 6-4 for their third straight victory Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Ernie Clement<\/a> and Myles Straw<\/a>, with two each, and George Springer<\/a> also had RBIs for Toronto (59-63), which started play 2 1\/2 games back of the Texas Rangers<\/a> in the race for the final American League wild-card spot.<\/p>\n

Tyler Rogers<\/a> (2-2) got the win in relief. Louis Varland<\/a> picked up his 26th save after Matt Waldron<\/a> gave up two runs and recorded just one out in the top of the ninth.<\/p>\n

Acquired from the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> ahead of last week’s trade deadline, Jose Soriano<\/a> struck out four and allowed one run on four hits with two walks across six innings to take a second consecutive no-decision with the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n

Tyron Guerrero<\/a> (1-2) suffered the loss in relief for Boston (64-56), which has dropped five in a row after winning nine straight.<\/p>\n

Willson Contreras<\/a> hit a solo home run.<\/p>\n

TAKEAWAYS<\/p>\n

Blue Jays: Manager John Schneider’s team improved to 31-31 at Rogers Centre this season. Toronto is in the middle of a seven-game homestand that will see it host the New York Yankees<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Red Sox: The club entered Wednesday’s action 18-7 since the all-star break, 27-7 over its last 34 games, 32-9 over its last 41, and 35-12 over its last 47, good for baseball’s best record across each of those spans.<\/p>\n

KEY MOMENT<\/p>\n

Contreras flubbed an Okamoto pop-up in foul territory one pitch before the Toronto designated hitter drove Guerrero home with a headfirst slide and a 2-1 lead in the eighth.<\/p>\n

KEY STAT<\/p>\n

Boston scored more than three runs for the first time in five games after plating at least four in its five previous outings.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Max Scherzer<\/a> (1-4) is scheduled to start Thursday afternoon’s finale of the four-game series against Payton Tolle<\/a> (7-6).<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 12, 2026.<\/p>\n

Joshua Clipperton, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Kazuma Okamoto singled home Vladimir Guerrero Jr. for the go-ahead run in the bottom of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-856166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856166","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=856166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}