WHO: Red Sox (4-8) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (4-6)
WHEN: 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Fenway Park
SERIES TO DATE: 0-0
STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Ryan Weber vs. RHP Tanner Roark
TV/RADIO: NESN/WEEI 93.7 FM
LIVE COVERAGE
Top 9
Workman on and starts with a nice, sharp curveball. Verdugo robs Shaw of a HR! Have a night, kid.
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Well-hit single with one out.
Line-out to RF
Pop out ends it.
Bottom 8
Verdugo goes oppo taco deep LCF over the monster. RED SOX 5, JAYS 3.
Peraza doubles off the CF wall.
Benny strikes out for the third time.
Raffy whiffs too.
Top 8
Great diving stop by Moreland for the first out of the inning.
Vellez walks against Barnes. Pinch runner Alford steals second.
Vlad walks. Trouble.
Barnes appears to get out of a jam on a double play that could be reviewed at 2nd base.
Bottom 7th
AJ Cole continues.
JD strikeout again, looking this time. He doesn't look good.
And Vazquez strikes out again to end the game.
Top 7th
Austin Brice pitching.
Solid inning.
Bottom 6
Beintendi struck out on three-straight pitches, and Devers popped out to ruin a lead-off walk
Top 6
Brasier in and issues a leadoff walk and Guerrero lines a ball in the gap ... thrown out at third being dumb. RED SOX 4, JAYS 3.
Grichuk singles off the wall.
3-6-3 to end it.
Bottom 5
Waguespack on for the Jays.
JD struck out on a 3-2 pitch.
Bogaerts walks in front of Moreland.
Deep flyout for Moreland.
Vazquez strikes out.
Top 5
Biggio and Bichette go down quickly.
Devers with a web gem to end it.
Bottom 4
Borucki into the game for Toronto and throwing hard to JBJ. Weak grounder to short.
Peraza walks.
Benintendi strikes out.
Devers has a terrible, half-swing strikeout.
Fourth inning
Double play ends, 4-6-3 with a sweet little throw from Bogaerts.
Weber is pulled after giving up a lead-off single to Shaw. Hembree now in.
Jammed Hernandez into a pop-up. One out.
Bedard now here in the bottom of the third.
JD pops out.
Bogaerts laces a one-out single to left-center.
On the first pitch, Roark throws a meat ball and Moreland hits it over the bullpen in RF. 427 feet. RED SOX 4, JAYS 2.
Vazquez lines out to left.
Verdugo grounds in the shift in short left.
I don’t think Mitch Moreland has ever hit a home run in his life where he didn’t know it was gone off the bat. pic.twitter.com/QGrSWtttEa
— Jared Carrabis (@Jared_Carrabis) August 8, 2020
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- Andrew Benintendi LF
- Rafael Devers 3B
- J.D. Martinez DH
- Xander Bogaerts SS
- Mitch Moreland 1B
- Christian Vazquez C
- Alex Verdugo RF
- Jackie Bradley Jr. CF
- Jose Peraza 2B
- Cavan Biggio 2B
- Bo Bichette SS
- Lourdes Gurriel Jr. LF
- Rowdy Tellez DH
- Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 1B
- Randal Grichuk CF
- Travis Shaw 3B
- Teoscar Hernández RF
- Danny Jansen C