Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Boston 5, Toronto 0
When: 1:35 PM ET, Sunday, August 22, 2010
Where: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts
Temperature: 68°
Umpires: Home - Eric Cooper, 1B - Chad Fairchild, 2B - Todd Tichenor, 3B - Bill Miller
Attendance: 37506

Bill Hall hit a two-run homer and Clay Buchholz pitched six strong innings as the Boston Red Sox blanked the Toronto Blue Jays 5-0 at Fenway Park on Sunday.

Buchholz (15-5) allowed five hits and three walks while fanning seven in six innings. The Boston bullpen finished things off with rookie Felix Doubront pitching the final two innings for his second save.

Hall capped Boston’s three-run uprising in the fifth inning. David Ortiz led off the inning with a triple and scored on a double by Adrian Beltre. Hall then belted his 17th homer over the Green Monster with two outs off loser Shaun Marcum (11-7).

The Red Sox added two more runs in the eighth on back-to-back, two-out RBI singles by Victor Martinez and Ortiz.

The game was delayed by rain two times totaling 2 hours and 43 minutes.

Boston remains 6 1/2 games behind the New York Yankees in the American League East and 5 1/2 behind the Tampa Bay Rays in the wild-card standings.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Toronto   Boston
Shaun Marcum Player Clay Buchholz
Loss W/L Win
7.0 IP 6.0
6 Strikeouts 7
4 Hits 5
3.86 ERA 0.00
Hitting
Toronto   Boston
Jose Molina Player David Ortiz
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 1
0 HR 0
2 TB 4
.667 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Toronto 6 0 6 .188 26 11 0 4 0 0
Boston 7 1 14 .226 7 8 5 1 0 0