Everything is going well for the Boston Red Sox at the moment. They started out their three-game series in Toronto with a wire-to-wire 5-1 victory at the Rogers Centre.
Boston (37-26) got Clay Buchholz's (5-3) best outing of the season in defeating the Blue Jays (32-32).
Buchholz went seven innings, allowing one earned run on three hits with two walks and six strikeouts.
Jo-Jo Reyes (2-5), the same guy who was riding a two-game win streak after going 28 starts without a victory, took the loss even though he wasn't that bad by his craptastic standards. He went 6.1 innings, allowing four earned runs on eight hits with two walks and three strikeouts.
The Red Sox had 11 hits while the Blue Jays were held to just four. Jacoby Ellsbury had three hits and three runs, Dustin Pedroia had three hits, a walk, a run and an RBI while Adrian Gonzalez had two hits and two RBIs.
Boston scored two runs in the third on an infield single by Pedroia and a run scored when Gonzalez grounded into a double play.
Toronto got a run back in the fourth as Juan Rivera drove in Corey Patterson.
The Red Sox added two more runs in the fifth on Gonzalez's RBI single (scoring Ellsbury) and Kevin Youkilis' RBI single (which scored Pedroia.
Ellsbury came home once more in the ninth on Gonzalez's RBI double.
Daniel Bard pitched a scoreless eighth (with two strikeouts) and Jonathan Papelbon got a 1-2-3 ninth in a non-save situation (with a strikeout).
John Lackey opposes Brandon Morrow this afternoon in the second game of this USA vs. Canada matchup that comes at the same time as the Bruins battle the Canucks in the Stanley Cup Finals.
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