Blue Jays fall to Red Sox for season-worst 4th straight loss

Enmanuel Valdez, Triston Casas and Masataka Yoshida each drove in two runs and the Boston Red Sox extended their winning streak to five games with an 8-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday night.

"We've been doing that since Day One," manager Alex Cora said. "Just moving the ball forward, hitting behind runners, running the bases well."

Nick Pivetta (2-2) went six innings and gave up three runs, including solo home runs by Daulton Varsho and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — whose shot in the third cleared the Green Monster and left Fenway Park.

"They're a really aggressive lineup," Pivetta said. "I was able to execute my offspeed early and then use my fastball later and then flip-flop that around. I'm not just here to throw. I'm here to pitch and execute all pitches in the zone."

Manoah held Boston hitless until there were two outs in the third, but encountered a rough stretch after getting hit in his right calf by a sharp line drive off the bat of Rafael Devers with one out in the fourth. Devers took second when catcher Alejandro Kirk fielded the carom and threw the ball into right field.

Devers advanced to third when Manoah's pick-off attempt sailed into center and scored on Jarren Duran's double. Casas' single tied the game at 2.

Toronto took the lead in the fifth when Kevin Kiermaier led off with a double, took third on George Springer's sacrifice fly and scored on a balk by Pivetta.

But the Red Sox went ahead 5-3 in the bottom of the inning by scoring three unearned runs off Manoah with two outs, including a two-run single by Valdez.

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"I thought he was getting on a roll a little bit," Blue Jays manager John Schneider said of Manoah.