Game #163 - Red Sox Win and Become #7 Seed

Boston won a very exciting Game 163, 7-6 over Toronto.  It was a very good and close game.  Toronto took a quick 4-0 lead in the bottom of the 1st off Jose Fernandez but Boston battled back to tie it in the top of the 5th.  After 6 innings with the score tied at 5-5, Chris Davis hit a 2-run home run off Aroldis Chapman to give the Red Sox the lead, which they hung on to thanks to 4 outs from Joe Nathan. 

BOXSCORE: 2013 Boston Red Sox At 2013 Toronto Blue-Jays             9/18/2013
  Red Sox            AB  R  H RBI AVG     Blue-Jays          AB  R  H RBI AVG
  B.Gardner CF        4  1  1  0 .279     K.Calhoun DH        3  1  1  0 .293 
  J.Lucroy C          5  1  1  1 .271     J.Shuck LF          3  1  1  2 .278 
  J.Donaldson 3B      3  2  2  1 .303   A-C.Gomez PH,CF       2  0  0  0 .268 
  C.Davis 1B          4  2  2  2 .270     A.Beltre 3B         5  1  1  0 .299 
  J.Upton RF          4  0  0  1 .229     N.Cruz RF           5  1  1  1 .282 
  A.Ramirez SS        4  0  0  1 .260     E.Chavez 1B         4  0  0  0 .293 
  E.Bonifacio 2B      4  0  3  0 .255     A.Dirks CF,LF       4  2  3  0 .277 
  R.Raburn LF         3  1  0  0 .273     I.Kinsler 2B        3  0  1  1 .241 
B-C.Blackmon LF       1  0  1  0 .299     B.Pena C            3  0  1  1 .309 
  J.Martinez DH       4  0  1  1 .252   C-J.Peralta PH,SS     1  0  0  0 .288 
                                          M.Kawasaki SS       3  0  1  0 .265 
                                        D-K.Frandsen PH       1  0  0  0 .341 
                                        E-R.Doumit C          0  0  0  0 .272 
                     -- -- -- ---                            -- -- -- ---     
         Totals      36  7 11  7                 Totals      37  6 10  5
A-Pinch Hit For Shuck In 6th Inning
B-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Raburn In 7th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Pena In 8th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Kawasaki In 8th Inning
E-Subbed Defensively (C ) For Frandsen In 9th Inning
Red Sox......... 0 0 0  2 2 1  2 0 0  -  7 11  1
Blue-Jays....... 4 0 0  0 1 0  0 1 0  -  6 10  0
Red Sox (88-75)          IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR    ERA
J.Fernandez               5 2/3   8   5   3   2   5   2   2.72
M.Thornton WIN(2-3)       0 1/3   0   0   0   0   0   0   3.58
J.Tazawa HOLD(8th)        1       1   0   0   0   1   0   3.55
G.Balfour HOLD(16th)      0 2/3   1   1   1   1   1   0   5.31
J.Nathan SAVE(40th)       1 1/3   0   0   0   0   2   0   2.01
Totals                    9      10   6   4   3   9   2
Blue-Jays (87-76)        IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR    ERA
H.Alvarez                 6       7   5   5   3   4   0   2.42
D.Otero LOSS(0-6)         0 2/3   0   1   1   1   1   0   3.92
A.Chapman                 0 2/3   3   1   1   0   2   1   4.21
H.Street                  0 2/3   0   0   0   0   0   0   4.55
K.Uehara                  1       1   0   0   0   2   0   0.93
Totals                    9      11   7   7   4   9   1
ATTENDANCE- 10,899 DATE- Wednesday, September 18th 2013 TIME- Day WEATHER- Good
UMPIRES- Bill Welke, Fieldin Culbreth, Andrew Fletcher, Mike Winters
T- 3:04
LEFT ON BASE- Red Sox: 6  Blue-Jays: 7
DOUBLE PLAYS- Red Sox: 1  Blue-Jays: 1
ERRORS- A.Ramirez
DOUBLES- B.Gardner(41st), J.Lucroy(17th), J.Donaldson(38th), C.Davis(45th),
         J.Martinez(7th)
HOME RUNS- C.Davis(59th), J.Shuck(4th), N.Cruz(40th)
RBIs- J.Lucroy(75th), J.Donaldson(107th), C.Davis-2(134th), J.Upton(91st),
      A.Ramirez(62nd), J.Martinez(6th), J.Shuck-2(34th), N.Cruz(98th),
      I.Kinsler(54th), B.Pena(23rd)
WALKS- B.Gardner, J.Donaldson-2, C.Davis, K.Calhoun-2, I.Kinsler
STRIKE OUTS- B.Gardner, J.Lucroy, C.Davis-2, J.Upton-2, A.Ramirez, R.Raburn,
             J.Martinez, C.Gomez, A.Beltre, N.Cruz-3, E.Chavez-2, I.Kinsler,
             J.Peralta
GIDP- J.Martinez, E.Chavez
BALKS- H.Alvarez
WILD PITCHES- J.Nathan
2-out RBI- I.Kinsler, B.Pena, J.Lucroy, J.Donaldson, J.Martinez, C.Davis-2
RLISP 2-out- C.Davis, M.Kawasaki, J.Upton, C.Gomez, K.Calhoun
TEAM RISP- Red Sox: 1 for 7  Blue-Jays: 2 for 7

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