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In the wake of another failure to reach the semifinals - the fourth time
in seven years for the U.BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox waited four years
to get back to baseballs post-season. They were more than happy to put
off their playoff celebration one more day.
One game after securing their first playoff appearance since 2009, the
Red Sox clinched the AL East title on Friday night, getting seven strong
innings from Jon Lester to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3.
The victory gave Boston 94 wins, 11 more than the Tampa Bay Rays with
only 10 games remaining.
"Were going back to the playoffs," said designated hitter David Ortiz,
who joined his teammates in revelry on the mound already wearing a ski
mask to protect his eyes from the postgame spray of champagne and beer.
"People have got to believe weve got a good team. Were going to take
this all the way there."
The Red Sox did little to celebrate after assuring themselves of no
worse than a wild-card spot on Thursday. Instead, the team brought out
the cigars on Friday after earning their first division title since 2007
-- a victory that allows them to skip the one-game wild-card playoff
and instead rest for four days after the regular season ends.
"Winning the American League East is something everybody in here should
be proud of," said manager John Farrell, who was brought in to replace
Bobby Valentine after last years team won 69 games. "When we got in the
playoffs last night -- to see there was no response, there was no
celebration. That to me spoke as much volume as anything weve done in
the year. Its a focused group. Its their time tonight to go and enjoy
it."
Lester (15-8) earned his 100th career victory, allowing one run on five
hits and two walks while striking out eight to win for the seventh time
in nine decisions. Toronto pinch-hitter Adam Lind hit a two-run homer
off Junichi Tazawa in the eighth to make it 5-3 before Koji Uehara got
five outs for his 20th save.
With the crowd standing for most of the final inning, Uehara struck out
Brett Lawrie to end the game and the Red Sox poured out of the dugout
and bullpen. On their way to the mound they were given the traditional
commemorative caps, along with T-shirts that said, "We Own The East."
It was a stunning turnaround that came just one year after the Red Sox
completed a 13-month collapse that started in September of 2011, when
they blew a nine-game lead in the wild card and missed the playoffs with
a loss on the final day of the season.
"They believed it from the first day of spring training," owner John
Henry ssaid. Michael Irvin Jersey. "But they went out and did it."
Dustin Pedroia had three hits for the Red Sox, who have won 19 of their
last 25.
Toronto starter Esmil Rogers (5-8) did not make it out of the third
inning, allowing two runs on three hits and five walks and striking out
two while getting only seven outs. With the fourth-place New York
Yankees winning their 81st game earlier Friday, the Blue Jays will be
the only team in the AL East with a losing record.
"Theyve got a great team over there. They really do," Toronto manager
John Gibbons said. "They ran away with a good division. Its not even
close right now."
The Red Sox took the lead early when Pedroia doubled to lead off the
first inning, went to third on a fly ball and scored on a wild pitch.
Boston had runners on first and second with nobody out but Mike Carp
lined out to the shortstop and Ortiz was thrown out at the plate when he
tried to score from second on Jarrod Saltalamacchias single.
Daniel Nava doubled to lead off the third inning and, after
intentionally walking Ortiz, Rogers walked two more to make it 2-0. Chad
Jenkins came in and got Saltalamacchia to hit into an inning-ending
double play.
Toronto loaded the bases with nobody out in the fourth on a walk, an
error by third baseman Will Middlebrooks and a single. But Middlebrooks
fielded Anthony Goses chopper, stepped on third and threw home to get
Kevin Pillar in a rundown for a double play. Lester struck out J.P.
Arencibia to end the inning.
Rajai Davis singled, stole second and third and scored on Lawries single
to make it 2-1 in the fifth. But Neil Wagner gave up four straight
singles to start the seventh, including an RBI single by Ortiz to make
it 3-1.
Jeremy Jeffress came in and got Mike Napoli to ground into a
shortstop-to-home-to-first double play. But Carp hit a line drive to
left-centre that made it 5-1. After Lind made it 5-3, Pedroia added an
RBI single in the eighth.
NOTES: Lester is the 11th pitcher in Red Sox history to record 100
victories, and just the third left-hander. ... Toronto CF Colby Rasmus
was beaned by a warmup throw before the bottom of the first inning. He
was replaced in the lineup by Pillar. Gibbons said he would get a CT
scan. ... Farrell is the seventh manager to lead the Red Sox to the
playoffs in his first year on the job. The last was Terry Francona in
2004. ... The Red Sox announced before the game that tickets for AL
divisional playoffs to be played in Boston will go on sale Tuesday.
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