G31: Blue Jays 9, Red Sox 1

Red Sox   - 000 100 000 - 1  3  0
Blue Jays - 110 200 50x - 9 11  0

Six Toronto pitchers held the Red Sox to three hits (one of them Mitch Moreland's eighth home run of the year) and the Blue Jays opened up the game with a five-run sixth.

Rowdy "Roddy" Tellez hit two home runs and knocked in four runs and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had a pair of doubles and three RBI.

Moreland's home run in the fourth was also Boston's last hit in the game. Christian Vázquez doubled with two outs in the second and Jackie Bradley led off the third with a single. The Red Sox also had three walks.

Colten Brewer / Julian Merryweather

Verdugo, LF
Devers, 3B
Martinez, DH
Bogaerts, SS
Moreland, 1B
Vázquez, C
Pillar, RF
Bradley, CF
Chavis, 2B

You think MLB can't fuck things up in 2020 any more than it already has? Well . . . Ken Rosenthal tweets:

Not close to final, but postseason plan at "controlled sites" being discussed, per sources: AL in southern California, NL in Texas. World Series possibly at Rangers' new ballpark. League talking with union about possibilities. Final plan would be subject to ownership approval.

Peter Abraham:

Red Sox [last two games] in Buffalo.
They beat the Bison in an exhibition game, 9-7, on July 6, 1917.
They beat the Blue Jays 9-7 tonight.
103 years later, nothing changes.

Brewer will get the ball for his third start of the year because Nathan Eovaldi has a non-serious right calf injury. The calf started barking last Saturday, two days after his excellent start against the Orioles. Eovaldi hopes to pitch this Saturday.

Martín Pérez will get an extra day of rest after his seven-inning effort on Saturday, so he will not start on Thursday. The Red Sox have not said who will open the final game of the series against the Blue Jays.

Andrew Benintendi, on the IL with a rib injury, sustained while running the bases on August 12, has not yet begun so-called "baseball activities".

The Blue Jays' new mascot looks happy:

We're PAWSitive you'll 💙 our new 'pen addition! 🐶 pic.twitter.com/OTtGC9DAgu

— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) August 24, 2020