
"Blue Jays starter Max Scherzer gave up three runs in the first inning and allowed a Masataka Yoshida solo shot in the fifth. Carlos Narvaez iced it with a three-run blast in the eighth inning off reliever Jose Berrios. Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet kept the Rogers Centre crowd of 39,438 hushed by limiting the Blue Jays to three hits over eight shutout innings. Isiah Kiner-Falefa hit a solo homer for Toronto in the ninth."
"The Red Sox outhit the Blue Jays 12-4. It can be easy to forget that Toronto's slumbering offence leads the major leagues in several statistical categories. The Blue Jays also have the best home record in the AL at 50-27 and still own the first seed in the AL playoff picture. If the bats wake up, this valley will be quickly forgotten. But that's a big if after a four-hit showing against the Red Sox."
Toronto has lost six of seven games, including a 7-1 loss to Boston, erasing a five-game AL East lead and creating a tie with the Yankees. Toronto is 90-68 with a tiebreaker advantage and a magic number of four with four games remaining. A direct berth to the division series is at stake; the second-place finisher must play a wild-card series. Max Scherzer allowed multiple early runs, Masataka Yoshida and Carlos Narvaez delivered big homers for Boston, and Garrett Crochet threw eight shutout innings. The Blue Jays were outhit 12-4 while Toronto's top-ranked offense has gone quiet.
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