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The Sox beat Toronto on a 10th inning April 10, 2025 ... With the bases loaded and the game tied with one out in the bottom of the 10th, Trevor Story worked a 2-2 count and sent a soft dribbler towards the second baseman. It wasn’t the prettiest ball, but Toronto Blue Jays infielder Andres Gimenez couldn’t make a play at home or turn a double play, leaving him with nothing to do but throw to first, giving Story a walk-off groundout to send the Red Sox off on their next road trip with a 4-3 extra-innings win. “You put it in play something can happen,” Cora said. “He did a good job fouling off pitches and we ended up winning the game.” Story joked afterwards it was one of the best groundouts of his career. The exciting finish capped off a second straight pitchers duel between the Red Sox and Blue Jays’ starters. Walker Buehler vs. Chris Bassitt proved to be another fantastic battle between two likeminded arms. Buehler and Bassitt both boast expansive arsenals and the two starters utilized their stuff to great effect. Coming in having allowed nine earned runs over 9.1 innings through his first two starts, Buehler initially looked like he was in for another rocky day after allowing singles to two of the first three batters he faced. But Buehler drew a double play to get out of trouble and went on to enjoy his best outing by far since joining the Red Sox. Bassitt, meanwhile, became the latest Blue Jays pitcher to tie the Red Sox batters into knots. He was nearly unhittable through the first five innings, but provided an opening in the sixth when he walked Jarren Duran. With runs at a premium, Duran stole second and tagged up to reach third on a Rafael Devers flyout, and that helped set the table for Alex Bregman, who came through with Boston’s first hit with a runner in scoring position in 13 chances dating back to Tuesday. Buehler got stronger as his outing went along and at one point retired 12 of 13 batters, but he made a costly mistake in the seventh when he gave up a four-pitch leadoff walk to Will Wagner. Buehler recorded one more out before Cora opted for left-hander Justin Wilson, and the inherited runner came in to score on a subsequent RBI single by Tyler Heineman that tied the game. Buehler finished with one run allowed over 6.1 innings, giving up four hits and a walk while striking out seven. Bassitt was charged with one run over 5.2 innings, including five hits, one walk and five strikeouts. Then, after the game was tied, the Red Sox had another ill-timed lapse on defense. Since returning to Fenway Park the Red Sox have committed 11 errors in seven games, and the last of those proved costly when the club couldn’t convert what would have been an inning-ending double play to get out of the seventh. With the go-ahead runner at third, Wilson drew a ground ball from Vladimir Guerrero Jr., but rookie second baseman Kristian Campbell opted to flip the ball to Story rather than tag the bag himself, leading to a bad throw that allowed Guerrero to reach safely and Alan Roden to score. Fortunately for the Red Sox, the Blue Jays returned the favor in the eighth inning with three gifts of their own. First, Toronto allowed Rob Refsnyder to reach on an error at third, then the Blue Jays couldn’t complete what would have been an inning-ending double play on an Alex Bregman grounder. That moved Refsnyder to third, and with Triston Casas at the plate reliever Yimi Garcia threw a pitch in the dirt that allowed Refsnyder to score and tie the game at 2-2. Once in extra innings the Blue Jays took a 3-2 lead on a sacrifice fly by George Springer, but the Red Sox answered with an RBI single by Duran to tie the game again. Duran was caught stealing trying to get into scoring position, but the Red Sox got another opportunity anyway after Devers singled and Bregman and Casas were each hit by pitches by Blue Jays right-hander Nick Sandlin, loading the bases with one out. That brought Story to the plate, and after coming up short in a similar spot earlier in the week, the Red Sox shortstop delivered and brought David Hamilton home from third to clinch the win. |
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