Blue Jays beat Red Sox in extras after Springer hits clutch game-tying homer in 9th
Toronto outfielder Tapia hits game-winning sacrifice fly in 10th to clinch victory
All smiles after a wild 6-5 walkoff victory, Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo wanted to punctuate his post-game comments with some spice after his team delivered the dramatics on Tuesday night.
"I feel like dropping F-bombs because it's pretty cool what happened," Montoyo said with a laugh.
George Springer hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning to tie the game and Raimel Tapia hit a game-winning sacrifice fly in the 10th as the Blue Jays (12-6) beat the reeling Boston Red Sox for their sixth win in seven games.
A rather dull, plodding affair turned in the eighth inning when Boston scored four runs off Toronto reliever Yimi Garcia.
Boston's Jake Diekman entered the ninth with a three-run cushion but gave up back-to-back doubles to Tapia and Santiago Espinal. Two strikeouts followed before Springer turned on a fastball for his fourth homer of the year and 200th of his career.
"I was just honestly trying to extend the inning," Springer said. "I was hoping I could hit something hard and get to first base. I know who's up behind me. I was able to hit a homer there."
Baseballs...I launch that 😎 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpringerDinger?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SpringerDinger</a> <a href="https://t.co/r2gn0YwzVu">pic.twitter.com/r2gn0YwzVu</a>
—@BlueJaysJordan Romano (1-1) retired the Red Sox in order in the 10th inning to set the stage for the meat of Toronto's order in the bottom half.
After Matt Barnes (0-1) struck out Matt Chapman, Matt Strahm came on and Tapia fouled off five pitches before finally lifting a fly ball to left field that scored Bichette.
"No matter what the score is, you feel like if we're close to it towards the end of the game we're going to have a shot," said Toronto starter Kevin Gausman, who threw six strong innings.
No Raim' or reason to EVER count us out! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WALKOFF?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WALKOFF</a> <a href="https://t.co/CXEmHjxGkp">pic.twitter.com/CXEmHjxGkp</a>
—@BlueJaysBoston (7-11) has dropped four in a row and six of its last seven.
Gausman struck out nine and allowed four hits and an unearned run, trimming his earned-run average to 2.19 from 2.89.
Boston starter Nick Pivetta, a Victoria native, struck out six over 4 2/3 innings. He gave up three hits, walked four batters and allowed two earned runs.
"Nick pitched great, everyone pitched great, the hitters scored when they had to," Diekman said. "I should be able to hold a three-run lead."
Announced attendance was 22,611. The game took three hours 47 minutes to play.
