After getting their World Series rings, the Red Sox fell to 3-9 after losing to the Blue Jays in their home opener.
Consecutive singles by Alen Hanson, Billy McKinney and Freddy Galvis – poking the ball through the right side on a perfectly executed hit and run – were followed by a Teoscar Hernandez sacrifice fly in the third. The outburst was just the third time this year the Blue Jays scored in the first inning, and the first time they’d put a crooked number up on the board.
The disciplined hitting and opportunism they displayed was unrecognizable from the grip-it-and-rip-it flailing on display in their previous 11 outings. Of their first seven hits, four went to the opposite field. Gurriel’s swipe of home was their first steal all year.Matt Shoemaker allowed four runs but only two of them earned in 5.
Ken Giles finally locked things down in the ninth, ending a four-game Blue Jays losing streak while simultaneously extending the Red Sox’s misery, dampening their celebratory day.
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