Andrew Cashner didn't wow anybody in his Red Sox debut, and the rest of the night wasn't great either.
Cashner, obtained over the weekend, allowed six runs -- five earned -- in six innings and the Sox were beaten handily by the Toronto Blue Jays, 10-4.
Heath Hembree and Ryan Weber were shelled for four runs in the ninth as the Jays put the game away.
Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts each had three hits and two RBI, but it wasn't nearly enough to offset what the pitching staff allowed.
WHO: Red Sox (51-43) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (35-60)
WHEN: 7:10 p.m.
WHERE: Fenway Park
SEASON SERIES TO DATE: Boston, 8-5
STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Andrew Cashner (9-3, 3.83) vs. RHP Jacob Waguespack (1-0, 5.00)
TV/RADIO: NESN/WEEI 93.7 FM
IN-GAME OBSERVATIONS:
10:32 Ugly inning for Heath Hembree. Allows three straight rockets -- triple double, single - for two big insurance runs.
10:14 Red Sox have hit some balls on the screws in the last two innings -- Martinez lined a bullet to center and Vazquez just tagged a ball deep to right. But both caught.
9:27 Sam Travis, who's now the principal righthanded bat off the Boston bench, goes down swinging while hitting for Brock Holt, standing two baserunners.
9:11 Taylor doesn't help himself in that inning -- first, an errant pickoff throw that moves Hernandez from first to third, then uncorks a wild pitch, enabling him to score.
9:02 That's it for Cashner, who goes five-plus, giving up eight hits and five runs. Not exactly what the Red Sox had in mind. Josh Taylor on.
8:58 After the Red Sox tie it up, Cashner gives it back on the very next pitch - a curveball that Justin Smoak drives over the bullpens in right.
8:50 Not sure why Charlie Montoyo left Waguespack in to face Bogaerts in that spot. Bogaerts had taken him deep in the first inning and Waguespack, at 77 pitches, was clearly losing stream. Move backfires as Bogaerts rips a single to left, scoring the tying run and giving the Sox runners at the corners.
8:42 Big line single to left from Betts scores two and brings the Red Sox to within a run. After failing to collect so much as one hit over the previous three innings, the Sox string together three in a row in the fifth -- all after two were out.
8:27 Red Sox have done next-to-nothing against Jacob Waguespack -- beyond Bogaerts' homer, they have a leadoff single by Mookie Betts and nothing else. He's retired nine of 11 since the homer, working around two walks.
7:56 To put it mildly, Cashner hasn't been sharp. Way too many baserunners through the first three innings -- six hits, two walks and a hit batsman among the first 16 hitters faced.
7:36 Changeup from Cashner at the bottom of the zone is crushed by Teoscar Hernandez for a three-run homer. Cashner hadn't allowed a homer in any of his previous five starts before coming here.
7:24 Xander Bogaerts continues to mash. That's five homers in his last seven games and seven in his last 14. Yikes.
LINEUPS
RED SOX
Betts RF
Devers 3B
Bogaerts SS
Martinez DH
Benintendi LF
Vazquez C
Bradley CF
Chavis 1B
Holt 2B
BLUE JAYS
Sogard 2B
Guerrero 3B
Gurriel DH
Grichuk RF
Jansen C
Smoak 1B
Galvis SS
Hernandez CF
McKinney LF
WHAT'S UP: The Red Sox won 10-8 Monday in the series opener and have won seven of their last 10 games.....The Sox improved to 8-1 in the last nine series opener...The Sox have scored in the first inning in 11 of their last 14 games....Boston has homered in 14 of their last 15 games...In 15 of their last 19 games, the Red Sox have scored six or more runs, including 12 of the last 15 and six of eight....Mookie Betts has scored at least one run in each of his last 10 games, the longest streak for a Red Sox player since Jacoby Ellsbury in 2013....The last player to have a streak longer than 10 games was Kevin Youkilis in 2006...Betts has a seven-game hitting streak, during which he's hitting .448 (13-for-29)…..Michael Chavis leads A.L. rookies in RBI (52) and runs (40) and is tied for second with 16 homers...The grand slam by Chavis Monday night was the first by a Red Sox rookie since Betts on Aug. 29, 2014....Xander Bogaerts has at least one hit, one run and one RBI in seven straight games...Only five other Red Sox players in history have accomplished that: Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Jimmie Foxx, Joe Cronin and Troy O'Leary.....Since being re-instated from the IL on May 27, Brock Holt leads the majors with a .375 batting average, 28 points higher than the next closest player in the A.L. (D.J. LeMahieu at .347)...Since May 14, the Red Sox are 30-for-27 (81.1 percent) in stolen bases, the second-best percentage in the league...Betts has a seven-game hitting streak, a season-best....Bogaerts also has a seven-game streak, with 14 RBI in that stretch.....Rafael Devers has a four-game hitting streak with four RBI in that span.....Andrew Cashner pitched against the Jays two weeks ago and limited them to a run on three hits over seven innings.....He's allowed a total of five runs in his last five starts....Justin Smoak is 3-for-21 (.143) with a homer and five strikeouts in his career against Cashner...Freddy Galvis is 3-for-24 (.125) with five strikeouts....Christian Vazquez is 2-for-3 with a homer against Jacob Waguespack...Andrew Benintendi is 0-for-3 lifetime.
PRE-GAME NOTES:
- Mitch Moreland took swings on the field Tuesday afternoon and could return to Paqtucket for his rehab assignment as soon as Wednesday. The Sox' goal is to have him activated by the start of the road series in Baltimore Friday.
- Nathan Eovaldi will make an apperance for Pawtucket either Wednesday or Thursday, depending on the weather.
- Steven Wright (toe contusion) has reported to Fort Myers for his rehab.