Red Sox Wrap: Boston Bests Alek Manoah To Take Down Blue Jays

The Boston Purple Sox weren’t fazed when dealing with one other deficit in opposition to the Toronto Blue Jays and scored six unanswered runs to earn a 8-3 win Wednesday evening at Fenway Park.

It’s Boston’s fifth straight win to push its file to 18-14 and it’s only a half recreation behind the Toronto Blue Jays, who stand now at 18-13, within the American League East standings.

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ONE BIG TAKEAWAY
The Purple Sox didn’t let historical past repeat itself with Alek Manoah on the mound for the Blue Jays.

The proficient right-handed pitcher has owned the Purple Sox when going up in opposition to them, coming into the competition with a 4-0 file and a 1.46 ERA in six profession begins. However that success didn’t proceed.

Boston made issues tough on Manoah, attending to him for eight hits and 5 runs — solely two of which have been earned because of three Blue Jays errors, certainly one of which Manoah dedicated — over 5 innings. Manoah by no means received right into a groove, prohibiting him from speaking the identical trash he despatched the Purple Sox’s approach final season and which Alex Verdugo responded to earlier this season. And for the primary time in his profession, Manoah suffered a loss to the Purple Sox.

Granted, the Purple Sox have been aided by a fortunate bounce on an infield single within the backside of the fifth that pushed the go-ahead runs throughout the plate. However the whole lot goes Boston’s approach for the second and it didn’t matter one bit that Manoah was on the hill.