The Boston Red Sox trailed 8-3 after six innings to their arch-rival New York Yankees tonight in New York, but they never lost faith.
The Sox(86-57) plated five runs in the seventh as Mike Napoli smashed a game tying Grand Slam that deflated the struggling Yankees (75-66). They proceeded to put up four runs in the eighth capped off by a two run homerun off the bat of Shane Victorino that put the Sox up for good. The Sox went on to win the game 12-8.
You can see both Napoli's Grand Slam and Victorino's game winning homer at the link below:
http://wapc.mlb.com/play/?c_id=mlb&content_id=30377109&partnerId=as_mlb_20130907_11643944
Meanwhile, the Detroit Tiger's Omar Infante, and Andy Dirks were a combined 10 for 10 at the plate with Infante racking up 6 RBI's in the process. At the plate as the Tigers (82-59) pounded out 26 hits en route to a 16-2 smashing of the Kansas City Royals (73-68) tonight.
Finally, Canada's team the Toronto Blue Jays (65-76) earned their second win in a row defeating the Minnesota Twins (61-78) tonight in Minneapolis.
R.A. Dickey pitched 6 1/3 innings picking up the win, while the Jays plated five runs in the third winning 6-5 tonight. The Jays were led offensively by Brett Lawrie, and Moises Sierra, both of whom collected two RBI's in the five run third.
Although the Jays are well out of it, they've won 8 of their last 11 and will look to win their fourth straight series tomorrow against these same Minnesota Twins.
For a full list of tonight's scores click the link below:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/scoreboard/index.jsp?tcid=nav_mlb_scoreboard
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