G49: Red Sox 6, Blue Jays 5 (13)

Red Sox   - 002 000 110 001 1 - 6 10  0
Blue Jays - 000 100 111 001 0 - 5 11  0

Michael Chavis's tenth home run of the year, which came with one out in the top of 13th inning, was the difference on Wednesday night.

Mookie Betts had hit his eighth homer an inning earlier, but Rowdy "Roddy" Tellez went deep against Heath Hembree in the home half of the twelfth, to re-tie the game.

The usually reliable Marcus Walden gave up a run in the bottom of the ninth, a two-out single by Danny Jansen driving in Brandon Drury, who had doubled with one out. It should be noted, however, that Walden wriggled out of a bases-loaded-one-out jam in the tenth by striking out Freddy Galvis and getting Drury to fly to left.

Hembree also redeemed himself after blowing the save, retiring the Blue Jays in order in the thirteenth, striking out Galvis and Drury and getting Billy McKinney to fly to left.

Boston took a 2-0 lead in the third on RBI-singles from Mitch Moreland and Xander Bogaerts. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. got one run back with his fifth homer, off Rick Porcello (6-3-1-0-4, 80).

The Red Sox loaded the bases in the seventh on Jackie Bradley's double and walks to Andrew Benintendi and Betts. Moreland grounded out to second, but JBJ scored. Scoring with no one on and two outs is fantastic when the Red Sox do it and shitty when the opposition does it. Brandon Workman retired the first two Jays in the seventh, then gave up a single, double, and two walks to hand Toronto a run.

Rafael Devers and Justin Smoak both hit homers in the eighth.

MFY: Gleyber Torres has 12 home runs this year - and 10 of them have come against the Orioles. Gary "Ketchup Sock" Thorne of MASN did not feel like calling one of Torres's blasts. ... CC Sabathia's knee is "barking" and the portly portsider will likely be headed to the IL for the second time this season.

Rick Porcello / Aaron Sanchez

Benintendi, LF
Betts, RF
Moreland, 1B
Bogaerts, SS
Devers, 3B
Chavis, 2B
Vázquez, DH
Bradley, CF
León, C

Alex Cora, on speaking to plate umpire Alan Porter last night about Marcus Stroman possibly quick-pitching Michael Chavis in the fourth inning:

I was telling Alan, if he's going to get on our guys, get on him. It's the same thing with him every day. He competes a certain way and people don't like it. ... It seems like whenever a team comes in, somebody screams at him. I don't know, that's the way he acts.

Stroman responded this morning via Twitter:

Didn't know I had to cater to opposing teams to like me. Everyone messes with timing, deliveries and pitching mechanics these days. Everyone. Get over it. I'm going to keep that dawg mentality always. ... Cora probably still mad I chose to play for @USABaseball over Puerto Rico. Now it makes sense. Lol

MLB's Official Rules includes this comment re Rule 8.05(e):

A quick pitch is an illegal pitch. Umpires will judge a quick pitch as one delivered before the batter is reasonably set in the batter's box. With runners on base the penalty is a balk; with no runners on base, it is a ball. The quick pitch is dangerous and should not be permitted.

Did Stroman quick-pitch Chavis? He began his motion less than one second after Chavis's feet were set in the box.

Update: Before today's game, Cora offered a further explanation of what was going on, explaining he was upset at the plate umpire, not Stroman:

It wasn't even about the quick-pitch. People do that a lot. Nate Eovaldi, he quick pitches and he throws 99, 100. I wasn't actually complaining about the quick-pitch. I was actually telling the umpire because Stroman goes to Chavis and he talks to him and then somebody from the dugout is screaming at Stroman and Alan Porter right away jumps on our guy. ...

It's the Stro-show, you know? He's on the mound and he has his antics and he gets under people's skin and all of a sudden he pitches six innings. ... I said he competes a certain way. Some people like it and some people don't. ... Thank you again to the guys that wrote the headlines and now there's something going on here in Toronto. ...

He even tweeted that I am still mad he didn't pitch for Puerto Rico in the WBC. I had the best time of my life with that team and he wasn't part of it. Highlight of my career. He pitched six innings and he did an outstanding job for Team USA in the finals ... [A]ctually Nolan Arenado called me to tell me that he wasn't going to play for us. Stroman announced it at David [Ortiz's] tournament in the Dominican Republic. The next day I called him and said, "Marcus, I saw your decision and respect it. I wish you luck." He was like, "Hey Alex, let's get together. Let's do something for Puerto Rico." His mom is Puerto Rican. ... He had a choice and he pitched for the gold metal team. No big deal.