BSJ Game Report: Blue Jays 6, Red Sox 3 -- Toronto completes sweep

All you need to know, in quickie form, about the Red Sox' loss to the Blue Jays, complete with BSJ analysis and insight:

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Wacha staggers to finish line: Watching Michael Wacha pitch down the stretch, he looked like someone who ran out of gas toward the end of the season. All season long, he had just four starts of his 23 in which he gave up multiple homers; two of those starts were Sunday and his previous start. After his outing on Aug. 20, Wacha had an ERA of 2.28, an impressive feat. But a little over a month later, he finished out of the year with an ERA of more than a run higher at 3.32. Was that fatigue setting in? Wacha believes it had more to do with a mechanical glitch that saw him struggle to locate his pitches to the glove side, with a number of offerings leaking back over the plate. Perhaps that, as much as anything, explains the five homers he's allowed in the last two starts. Either way, the Sox need to do a deep dive on what happened before making a determination on whether to extend him a qualifying offer in November.

Dalbec provides only offense: For the first 19 innings in the series, the Red Sox were unable to come up with so much as a single run, having been blanked in each of the first two games. Finally, in the second inning, Bobby Dalbec sent a blooper that fell into center field and plated two baserunners for the Sox, ending their scoreless streak. Later, Dalbec belted his 12th homer of the season -- a solo shot to left with one out in the seventh. The homer was the first for Dalbec since Aug.  6 at Kansas City. And that was the extent of the Red Sox scoring for the entire weekend at Rogers Centre. It's unclear where Dalbec fits into the Red Sox future, with first base having been taken over by Triston Casas while Dalbec spent the final month of the season at Triple-A Worcester. A change of scenery might be best for all involved, but let the record show that, for one day, Dalbec saved the Sox the embarrassment of a third straight road shutout.

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