Game 66 - Red Soxs have a great field trip to Toronto as they sweep away the Jays

So heading into the fifth inning Kyle Drabek had given up 3 runs on 3 hits with 3 walks and 5 Ks while Adrian Gonzalez hit his 13th homer in the first inning to open the scoring. While Jose Bautista had his first homer in 13 games in the bottom of the fourth and the Red Sox lead 3-1 and the Jays finally had a hit as Jon Lester had retired the first 11 batters he faced to open the game leading upto the Bautista at bat.

So in the fifth Kyle Drabek faced 5 batters and all of them reached base Jacoby Ellsbury singled and Dustin Pedroia on a 1 and 1 pitch drove him home with his 5th homer to make it 5-1 and then Adrian Gonzalez doubled and Kevin Youkilis walked but before John Farrell could get out of the dugout and pull Drabek for Luis Perez David Oritz sent him to the showers in style with a 3 run homer and it was 8-1 Soxs. Perez himself gave up 3 singles around a strike out of J. D. Drew and Marco Scutaro drove in the 6 run of the inning with a RBI single which was followed by a double play ball by Jacoby Ellsbury as he finished what he started which was a 6 run on 7 hits and a walk with a wild pitch by Drabek just for good measure.

After a walk to Pedroia and strike out of Gonzalez Perez gave up back to back double to Kevin Youkilis and David Oritz before leaving and it was 11-1 when Shawn Camp came in and gave up his own double to Jarrod Saltalamacchia before the end of the inning and it was 12-1 after sixth with 3 runs on 3 doubles and a walk and the Jays to this point had 2 hits in the game as Edwin Encaracion had a single in the fifth. In the ninth inning Kevin Youkilis thanked all the Red Soxs fans for coming out this weekend as he hit a 2-run homer to make the final 14-1 as the Soxs had 17 hits and the Jays had 2 hits in the game.

John Farrell must be glad that his former team has finally left as the Jays got outscored 35 - 6 in the 3 game series that saw them also pick up 46 hits compared to the Jays 12 and the Red Soxs leave town on a 9 game win streak so it was a very very very very bad time to be meet them at least they brought in just over 98,000 fans to the Roger centre over the 3 day visit.

Now what the Jays need right now is a sub-500 team and team the Jays have had no problem with over the last couple of seasons to get health off of and now please welcome the Baltimore Orioles to the Rogers centre Tuesday night

Tom Mehegan