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| xubb | Jan 11 2014, 01:12 AM Post #1 |
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BOSTON -- Take them out of Toronto and the Blue Jays hit plenty of long balls. Jose Bautista, Colby Rasmus and J.P. Arencibia hit two-run homers Monday night to lead the Blue Jays to a 9-6 victory over Boston despite two home runs by David Ortiz that tied him for the most multihomer games in Red Sox history. It was the fourth win in six games for Toronto, which overcame two errors and blew an early four-run lead. "The top of our order has been swinging good of late," Blue Jays manager John Farrell said. "The way Jose, Edwin (Encarnacion) and Rasmus have been going. ... Theyre swinging the bats well for us." The Blue Jays are tied with the Yankees for the major league lead with 54 road homers and they have come in 39 games away from Rogers Centre. They needed all of them Monday because of Ortizs power display. Ortiz hit a two-run homer and a solo shot, his 37th multihomer game for the Red Sox, tying Ted Williams for the club record. He has 398 career homers that ties Dale Murphy for 51st all-time. "I cant tell you what to attribute it to," Boston manager Bobby Valentine said of the 36-year-old Ortiz continuing to swing a hot bat. "His batting practice every day is stellar, his games have been consistently terrific. The only time he got outside of himself was a couple of days ago. Then he got the off day (Sunday) and he came back with a vengeance tonight." Its his 11th straight season with 20 or more homers. Henderson Alvarez (4-6) pitched five innings then left with right elbow soreness. He allowed five runs -- three earned -- and six hits to snap a four-game losing streak. The Blue Jays had lost his last seven starts. "When he went out for the sixth inning he had trouble getting loose," Farrell said. "It was a precautionary thing. Well get him an MRI tomorrow. We dont anticipate (him missing a start), but were going to take every precautionary measure." Casey Janssen worked the ninth for his eighth save, striking out the only three batters he faced. Bostons Felix Doubront (8-4) gave up seven runs -- five earned -- and 11 hits in six innings. Boston lost for just the third time in its last 12 in a game delayed by rain for 1 hour, 56 minutes. With the score tied 5-5 in the sixth, Ben Francisco had a two-out double off the wall in centre field over Ryan Kalishs leap and Arencibia homered off a sign over the Green Monster seats. Bautistas homer, his 24th, off reliever Matt Albers made it 9-5 in the seventh. The Blue Jays had a runner on first with two outs when heavy rain accompanied by lightning and thunder delayed the game. After play resumed, Blue Jays first baseman Encarnacion and Bautista both made diving plays on balls. The Blue Jays took advantage of third baseman Will Middlebrooks fielding error to score two unearned runs in a four-run first. Brett Lawrie opened the game with a single before Rasmus hit a homer that hooked around the right-field foul pole, his 14th, to make it 2-0. Bautista reached on the error and scored on Encarnacions double. Rajai Davis hustled down the line for a run-scoring fielders choice. Rasmus homer hit the top of the short wall and bounced over. "I knew I barrelled it up," he said. "Once it hit the top, I knew it was gone." Boston cut it to 4-2 in the bottom on the inning on Ortizs homer that snapped an 0-for-11 stretch. His second homer made it 9-6 in the eighth. "Its unbelievable," Middlebrooks said of Ortiz. "I thought the guy hits everything hard." Rasmus RBI single made it 5-2 in the fifth. In the third, the Blue Jays made two errors -- one by shortstop Yunel Escobar and the other by second baseman Kelly Johnson -- which led to both runs. Johnson booted Jarrod Saltalamacchias two-out grounder, allowing Dustin Pedroia to score from third, before Adrian Gonzalez followed with an RBI single. Kalishs RBI single tied it in the fourth. NOTES: Middlebrooks was named the ALs Player of the Week on Monday. "Its a nice bonus," Valentine said. "He had a great week." Outfielder Cody Ross joked, "he stole it from me. I made a good push, though." Ross had two homers and five RBIs in Bostons win Sunday. ... Blue Jays 1B Adam Lind was called up from Triple-A Las Vegas on Sunday. "It was in an environment that allowed him to relax and get back to the type of player he was in Toronto," Farrell said. "His performance has forced the decision to get him back here to get a productive left-handed hitter back in the lineup. He just felt like his body was more loose and he had increased range at first base." ... Valentine said RHP Josh Beckett, on the 15-day DL with shoulder inflammation, may pitch Friday in Seattle. Hes eligible to come off the DL Thursday. Customized Josh Gordon Jersey . 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I was just 24 years old and perhaps the youngest sportscaster there, alongside Brian Williams (who was working for a Toronto radio station), Jim Hunt (CKEY), Mr. CFRB Bill Stevenson and of course, Montreal writer Red Fisher. I find it very hard to believe that 40 years ago we were talking about a hockey series against the Soviet Union that we going undoubtedly going to win eight straight. Weve called it the Summit Series - but that name actually came after the fact (Just like in football the Super Bowl was not branded that until Joe Namath won the third NFL-AFL championship series). For the 1972 event, it simply started out as the Russia-Canada Hockey Series. Now of course, weve just finished the Canada-Russia Challenge, a series of four games between junior clubs of both countries with our top juniors vying for consideration in the 2013 World Juniors. Some big names were in town to watch this this series - and I mean big. Ken Dryden, Don Awrey, Pat Stapleton and Yuri Lyapkin were there, along with two of the best from that 1972 Soviet team - goalie Vladislav Tretiak and forward Alexander Yakushev. Yakushev was a big, tall and muscular 6-3 forward who had a wicked shot. He impressed me more than many of their forwards. Tretiak has gone from a 20-year-old kid in 1972 to a big wig in the Russian hockey movement. And he is forever thankful for the chance to play in the 1972 series. "Both teams won in 1972," the president of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation told TSN. "It was a great series for all of hockey. The best that Russia had and the besst of the NHL.dddddddddddd The winner was the game of hockey." Hes probably right. Ken Dryden was asked to evaluate that young 20-year-old goalie he faced back then. "The thing I remember the most about him was the mental toughness he had to play in the series," he said. Of course, Canadas juniors werent around in 1972 but many of them know the history. Theyve heard about the series, theyve heard of Paul Henderson and as one player told me, "Ive heard Foster Hewitt describe the goal that won it so often…my father has the entire series at home and talks as if it was held last month." I covered the Moscow games in 1972 - for my local station in Halifax and for Broadcast News and The Canadian Press. Now were going to hear a lot of the 1972 series over the next month and the festivities started with Canadas wins over the Russians in Yaroslavl and Halifax. And wouldnt you know it, the four game series finished in a tie with a specially formatted overtime to decide it. This time, the heroes arent names like Henderson and Esposito but youngsters like Ty Rattie and Ryan Strome. It may have been part of an evaluation camp for the upcoming World Juniors, but both teams wanted to win. And as we saw in 1972, the players on both sides still represent strong hockey nations. And while the names of Rattie, Strome and even Nail Yakupov may not go down in hockey history alongside that of Yakushev, Henderson, Tretiak and Esposito, they certainly enjoyed their day in the spotlight. For TSN.ca, Im Alex J. Walling. Alex J. can be reached via email at: ajw@eastlink.ca This marks the first of several columns Alex J. Walling will do on the classic 1972 series. |
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