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Sept. 6, 2011

Toronto–-typically an end of the order was surprised guy, shortstop Marco Scutaro, to see his name in the sixth place in the lineup when he showed for the Tuesday game.

"I was like ' we are trying today?,"' Scutaro joked.

Not only success tried but.

Jon Lester tied a season high with 11 strikeouts in seven innings to win fourth consecutive decision Scutaro and David Ortiz of each match a career high with four hits and the Boston Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 14-0.

"These nights it definitely on our side to be fun," said Lester.

Lester (insofar) allowed only three hits, all singles, and was an improvement on 4-0 with a 1.16 ERA in five starts since losing to Minnesota in the Aug. 10. He is also 4-0 in his last six starts against Toronto.

"He threw strikes, threw he makes his router with one," said Terry Francona Red Sox manager. "It was good to see."

Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Josh Reddick homered the Red Sox a season high with 20 hits matched and evaluated at least two runs in each of the first five innings. It was reached, according to research by the Elias Sports Bureau provided the performance the first time in the history of Boston, to the Blue Jays.

"It was a night that we needed," Francona said.

Scutaro has make most of his starts this season batting ninth batted sixth only one other time. Moves in the order seemed to him agree to, a career he went high with three doubles, four runs matched and reached base five times.

"I have good hitting of the ball for three weeks and it seems, as all I hit is directly to people or diving, she plays", Scutaro said. "It's nice to have a day like this."

Francona said that he Scutaro up to be the establishment of balanced moved. It was worth certainly.

"He is a great night had", Francona said. "He swung the bat fantastic."

The Red Sox finished with nine doubles and 11 extra base hits, both season-highs.

Kyle Weiland pitched the final two innings for Boston.

Toronto lost for the fourth time in five games and in the last 15: 10.

After losing 1-0 in 11 innings in the series opener jumped on Monday, the Red Sox on Blue Jays left-hander Luis Perez (3-3) for four runs in the batting order in the first inning. Adrian Gonzalez hit an RBI double, Ortiz and Scutaro had two RBI singles and Carl Crawford limits it with a run scoring double.

González awarded followed a run in the second and Kevin Youkilis home with a RBI but try was raised to third parties.

Boston has 8-0 in the third on Saltalamacchia of 15th home run, two-run Center car. Perez left three batters later, after an error by Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie Dustin Pedroia.

Perez, winless in three starts, 2 2/3 innings a career high eight runs and 10 hits in. He walked two and hit one.

Boston stacked with three more against left-hander Rommie Lewis in the fourth. Ortiz and Scutaro hit consecutive RBI doubles and two outs later, Darnell McDonald drove in Scutaro with one to the right.

Scutaro made it 13-0 in the fifth with a two run by Dustin McGowan, who was pitching for the first time since July 8, 2008 in the majors. The right-hander had often violated two shoulder operations and a knee surgery was pushed in the past three years on the sidelines.

"The first inning, the I so, until I was pumped all top left,", McGowan said.

After Reddick 14-0 with a solo drive replace correct Jacoby Ellsbury in the sixth, made, offside McGowan in the eighth.

McGowan allowed three to five hits in four innings. He went hit three and five.

"The encouraging, what was the way that he does not really to revision, to get its speed", said Blue Jays Manager John Farrell. "That me us a giant tell-tale like a guy account feels strength wise."

Boston pitcher of Nate Spears made his major league debut in the fifth, replace Crawford. Jed Lowrie, pushed on the sidelines for the last two games with a sore left shoulder, came on for Gonzalez in the seventh.

Notes

Red Sox RHP Josh Beckett will has been diagnosed with a sprained right ankle and his next scheduled start Sunday at Tampa Bay. Beckett left in the fourth inning Monday with pain in the ankle. Toronto SS Yunel Escobar returned to the lineup left wrist after missing two games with a wound. Blue Jays by Colby Rasmus (right wrist) took swings from a tea before the game. Toronto 1b David Cooper, RHP Kyle Drabek and LHP Brad Mills from triple-A Las Vegas and purchased the contracts of RHP Chad Beck, RHP Danny Farquhar and Adam Lion from triple-a all six are to arrive Wednesday. To make room on the list that Blue Jays RHP P.j. Walters outrighted triple-a and transfers Rajai Davis ('Hamstring' links) from the 15-day DL to the 60-day DL.

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