CBSSports.com wire reports
10 June 2011

Toronto–-extra rest for Clay Buchholz and a little sleep for most of his team-mates added up to the seventh straight victory for the Boston Red Sox.

Despite his arrival at their hotel approximately at the same time that morning rush hour was beginning, the Red Sox that beat Toronto Blue Jays 5-1 on Friday night in the opener of a three-game series.

"I think everybody is tired, I know I was, but I thought it was a professional night," Red Sox manager Terry Francona is the a rain delayed said his team played game in New York on Friday to 1:43 am. "We have play to show after a fast turnaround, and good morning."

Buchholz (5-3) credited Francona, given had, an extra two days of rest, to help deal with a sore back to him.

The right-hander allowed three hits over seven innings in the out six and walking two.

"If some nagging you, you don't want to mess it up no more than it already is, so you try art, prefer it a bit", Buchholz said. "Tonight it was not I prefer and I was able to get some good extensions on some sites, I needed to expanded be." "It felt most definitely a little different as it begins the last has."

Buchholz, always canceled their planned early flight to Toronto landed said fatigue a factor was less, once the game began.

"Once you between step the lines everything only for you is and you can run on some adrenaline, especially at this level", he said. "So out there do what I was."

Jacoby Ellsbury went 3 for 5 with three most runs and AL drove RBI leader Adrian Gonzalez in two races, the Red Sox lead.

Gonzalez's fifth-inning single was the first baseman seven consecutive play with a driven at least in run. He drove in another with a ground rule off reliever Shawn camp in the ninth that do it 5-1.

"It is me only guys possibilities every time me are always on base and giving" Gonzalez said. "RBI are not a personal thing."

Each for Boston, which improved its League best record to 37-26 drove in one run, Kevin Youkilis and Dustin Pedroia.

Pedroia, which to the lineup for Thursday's series finale in New York is missing, so that doctors could examine his sore right knee, finished 3 for 4 with an RBI and a run scored.

The loss continued a two-game winning streak for Toronto Starter Yo-Yo of Reyes and the Blue Jays dropped to 500 (32-32).

Gone Reyes (2-5), that a record-tying 28 without a win, beating Cleveland 11-1 begins on 30 may in the first complete game of his career.

The left-hander gave eight hits and two walks before Blue Jays Manager John Farrell with him with Luis Perez out and a runner on first in the seventh.

A batter hit Perez but escaped of the inning without further damage, left the 27-year old Reyes charged with four runs in 6 1/3 innings.

Both teams went hitless for two innings before right Jarrod to flat Saltalamacchia way from the top of the third with a Bloop single led field. Before Pedroia's infield single Saltalamacchia to make it 1-0 achieved make Ellsbury of the ground rule double down the left field line runner second and third.

Boston went ahead 2-0, when a double hit by Gonzalez Ellsbury scored play ball.

Corey Patterson had Toronto's first Hit--a single to the left leading from the fourth. He preferred to third on a double by Jose Bautista scored on a fly victims of Juan Rivera, leading Boston to a 2: 1-trimmed.

The Red Sox got two runs in the fifth on RBI singles by Gonzalez and Youkilis.

Reliever Daniel Bard took over Buchholz start eighth and pitched a scoreless inning. Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon finished, which is a non-save situation with a shutout became ninth.

Notes

Bautista, the AL leader with 20, run home could not go deep for 12 straight game, the longest drought for the outfielder as a 13-game run last season when Bautista hit a majors best 54. Blue Jays SS Yunel Escobar missed his second straight game and is day-to-day because of the pain in his left quadriceps. Saltalamacchia played his first game since, to a New York Hospital on Wednesday because of a stomach disease, that the catcher several doses of intravenous fluids get required. "He will be on the most energetic itself, but sometimes may not what you just play, have" said Francona. Saltalamacchia's disease forced 39-year-old Jason Varitek, which on Wednesday with Flückiger together Tim Wakefield , the oldest battery in the Red Sox to make history, to play in consecutive games. "I told him ' I owe you a steak dinner,"' Saltalamacchia said. "But he told me ' I have two days in a row before, caught, so not the problem." "González had previously three stripes of six games with at least one RBI."

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