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Blue Jays seek rebound effort against Red Sox

Sep 6, 2014 - 1:47 PM (SportsNetwork.com) - Time to start another streak.

The Toronto Blue Jays had both a five-game overall win streak and a nice run of success at Fenway Park end in an extra-inning loss on Friday, but they'll try to get both re-started on Saturday night when they visit the Boston Red Sox for game two of a three-game series.

Toronto had won six in a row in Boston before the 9-8 defeat in which they led by two runs heading into the bottom of the 10th inning before closer Casey Janssen managed only one out while allowing three runs.

One game earlier, the Red Sox had lost a ninth-inning lead to the New York Yankees.

"You score those two runs in the top of the 10th there, so you're feeling really good and then bam, bam, bam, bam," Toronto manager John Gibbons said. "Nine times out of 10 we win that game."

Another loss came in the form of Melky Cabrera, who broke his right pinky finger and will miss the rest of the season. He was leading the team with a .301 batting average.

Boston has lost nine of 11 home starts by Saturday's pitcher, Clay Buchholz, who's won two of eight decisions at Fenway with a 7.20 earned run average.

Toronto has homered 13 times at Fenway this season.

Buchholz is 0-4 in his last six home meetings with Toronto, including two losses this season in which he's compiled a 10.24 ERA.

The right-hander won for the first time in eight starts in his last outing, defeating Tampa Bay, 3-0, with a complete-game three-hitter.

Yoenis Cespedes, who arrived via deadline trade with Oakland, had four hits in Friday's win and is hitting .392 in his last 12.

"He's proven to us time and time again in RBI situations, he's got a knack for it," Boston manager John Farrell said. "He's aggressive, he's strong and he's got all-field coverage."

The Blue Jays start lefty J.A. Happ, who's beaten Boston twice this season with a 2.71 ERA in three starts.

Cespedes has two hits against him in 10 career at-bats.

Happ had dropped three decisions in his last six starts before defeating the Yankees, 4-3, on Sunday with seven innings of work.

On Friday, Cespedes' hit to center with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th capped a rally. Xander Bogaerts collected three hits and drove in two, Mookie Betts added two hits, an RBI and scored three times, while Mike Napoli drove in a run and scored once.

Edwin Encarnacion and Jose Bautista each hit a two-run homer for the Blue Jays.






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