It was superb pitching duel as Henderson Alvarez pitched 6 innings of four hit shutout with a walk and 4Ks and the bullpen of Carlos Villanueva, Casey Janssen, Frank Francisco, and Shawn Camp pitched 5 innings of 3 hit shutout with 3 walks and 5Ks with great defense from the likes of Mike McCoy at shortstop and the play of Dwayne Wise in the top of the ninth that was out number 1 of the bat of Carl Crawford that if he had not made the catch it would likely by a triple and would of broken the scoreless tie when Josh Reddick followed with a double but instead it was another scoreless inning as Frank Francisco stuck out Jason Veritek and former Blue Jay Marco Scutaro flied to left for out # 3 as Thames made the catch. The Red Sox pitching was not worse as Josh Beckett pitched 3.2 innings of 3 hit shutout with a walk and 6Ks and he got hurt when he throw a pitch to Kelly Johnson and like all game the Jays were abusing Veritek behind the plate as they stole bases at will and this time it was Edwin Encarnacion stealing second base as the Jays stole 5 bases in 5 attempts as Encarnacion had 2, McCoy 2, and Lawrie 1. Alfredo Aceves came in for him and pitched 3.2 as well and had an one hit shutout with 3 walks and 4Ks and the rest of the bullpen pitched 3.1 innings of 1 run on two hit with 2 walks and 5Ks.
So it came down to the bottom 11 with two out and Brett Lawrie stepped to the plate and did something he had not done before as a Blue Jay and was get a walk off hit to win the game and he did it in style by almost hitting the abandon Hard Rock Restaurant as he hit his 8th homer of the season to win the game 1-0. The two teams today were a combined 0 for 19 in the game with runners in scoring position and the Sox had 4 doubles apart of their 7 hits and Lawrie had the only extra base hit in the Jays 6 hits.
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