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AP Photo/Charles Krupa Boston Red Sox’s Masataka Yoshida celebrates after his solo home run against the Toronto Blue Jays during the fourth inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Boston.
AP
11:49 JST, May 3, 2023
BOSTON (AP) — Connor Wong hit two homers, including a tie-breaking solo shot in the eighth, to help the Boston Red Sox rally past the Toronto Blue Jays 7-6 on Tuesday night.
Masataka Yoshida and Christian Arroyo also homered for Boston and the Red Sox tied a season-high for hits with 14, including four by Wong. The Boston catcher led off the eighth needing a triple to complete the cycle, drove a 2-1 fastball from Erik Swanson to the Green Monster seats for his second homer of the night and third in three days.
AP Photo/Charles Krupa Boston Red Sox’s Masataka Yoshida watches the flight of his solo home run against the Toronto Blue Jays during the fourth inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Boston.
Wong also had a double in the second that bounced just below the yellow line at the top of Fenway Park’s iconic left-field wall.
The Red Sox rallied after falling behind 6-3 during a six-run sixth by the Blue Jays and won four in a row for the first time this season, getting the final two outs when George Springer grounded into a double play. Boston is three games over for the first time since beating the Yankees last July 17 for a 48-45 record.
Reliever Richard Bleier (1-0) got the win and Josh Winckowski picked up his first save. Swanson (1-1) took the loss.
Daulton Varsho hit a three-run homer for the Blue Jays in the sixth and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. finished with a pair of singles and two RBIs.
Yoshida extended his hitting streak to 12 with a solo homer to right-center in the fourth, putting Boston up 3-0.
Toronto didn’t get a hit until Varsho’s double in the fourth, then tagged Houck in the fifth for six runs on five hits and a walk. Varsho did the most damage with his homer that put the Jays up 6-3 after a bases-loaded single by Guerrero drove in two and Bichette scored on a passed ball.
Boston got two back in the fifth on RBI singles by Refsnyder and Yoshida, then Wong added a solo homer to left to tie it again in the sixth, surviving a video challenge that showed a fan touching the ball after it had cleared the top of the wall.
Arroyo’s first homer of the season was a blast all the way out of Fenway Park, driving a 1-1 changeup well over the Green Monster to give the Red Sox a 1-0 lead. Wong followed with a drive off the giant wall in left field that was just under the yellow line.
Alex Verdugo led off the third with his second straight double and scored on a single by Rob Refsnyder, who was thrown out at second on a nice play by center-fielder Kevin Kiermaier.
NO DECISIONS
Neither starter figured in the decision. Toronto’s Yusei Kikuchi lasted 4 1/3 innings, allowing five runs on nine hits, including two homers by Yoshida and Arroyo. Tanner Houck struck out five over six innings for Boston, allowing six runs on six hits.
AP Photo/Charles Krupa Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Yusei Kikuchi, right, walks back to the mound as Boston Red Sox’s Christian Arroyo rounds the bases on a solo home run during the second inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Boston.
