Red Sox vs Blue Jays Game Recap: Guerrero Jr seals series win.
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Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s clutch three-run home run seals the series win to rally past Boston Red Sox again.
One month in and the Toronto Blue Jays look to be pulling out of their first extended bout of adversity this season, getting a three-run homer from Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the eighth inning Thursday night to pull out a second straight comeback win over the Boston Red Sox, this one 4-2.
Coming on the heels of Wednesday night's rally from a 6-0 deficit, the Blue Jays are now 15-16, thanks to consecutive wins after eight losses in nine outings, and for the first time this season, they hit multiple homers in back-to-back games.
Alex Bregman hit a bases loaded two-run double in the fifth off Jose Berrios opened the scoring.
Daulton Varsho picked the Blue Jays up off the mat with a solo shot in the seventh off Tanner Houck.
Then came the eighth, started by a one-out Nathan Lukes single and a Bo Bichette double to right that twisted up Wilyer Abreu.
Up came Guerrero, and with a base open, the Red Sox decided to pitch to him rather than face Anthony Santander with the bases loaded.
While Justin Slated tried to pitch him carefully, it didn't work, as Guerrero hammered a full-count curveball diving out of the zone over the wall in left field to put the Blue Jays up 4-2.
The Red Sox picked the wrong poison and Yimi Garcia pitched a clean ninth for his second save to close out the win before a crowd of 24,198.
It's in games like the past two nights, against an AL East rival that arrived in Toronto playing well, that a vision of what the Blue Jays could be comes to mind.
Max Scherzer dropped some real talk at the end of spring training, cautioning the typical optimism that builds over the course of a camp is nice, but it takes the regular season's grind and inherent adversity to really get a sense of what a team is made of.
It's in the two weeks prior that a grimmer possibility shone through, which is why before the game, Scherzer said, «you've seen us play some pretty good ball, seen some pretty good things at times, but you've also seen some inconsistencies in us, not playing up to our potential.»
«That's the major leagues. That's going to happen,» he added. «Maybe it's happening a little bit more than we would like and figuring out how that's going to manifest itself throughout the team, from the coaches to the veterans to the arb guys to the rookies. How we handle failure determines how we're going to handle success.»
Scherzer's ongoing thumb issues have put an immense amount of stress on their pitching depth and there's still no steady plan for how to backfill his rotation vacancy.
The offence may finally be waking up from its extended slumber, but the power of the past two days needs to become more consistent.
There's still lots for this team to figure out, including a way back not just to .500, but well beyond it, too.
"It's really the personality of each individual player, how they have to work through it,» Scherzer said of finding more consistency. «Some people, they need more work to get through something to get the feel. Some of the guys, maybe they're watching film or doing other things. You can't really say, hey, this worked on this team, it's going to work for the Blue Jays. It's really on the individual and how they operate.»
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