José Berríos, Blue Jays bullpen hold Crimson Sox bats silent

Brayan Bello didn’t get assist from a Crimson Sox lineup that has managed simply 4 runs over their final three video games.

Boston Crimson Sox third baseman Nick Sogard, left, and catcher Connor Wong, proper, lie on the bottom after neither may make a diving catch of a second-inning bunt foul ball throughout a baseball sport towards the Toronto Blue Jays, Friday, June 27, 2025, in Boston. (AP/Photograph/Jim Davis) AP

By KYLE HIGHTOWER, Related Press

June 27, 2025

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BOSTON (AP) — José Berríos pitched seven scoreless innings, George Springer had three hits and two RBI singles, and the Toronto Blue Jays earned a 9-0 win over the Boston Crimson Sox on Friday evening.

Bo Bichette, Alejandro Kirk, Ernie Clement and Andrés Giménez additionally drove in runs for Toronto, which has received six of eight conferences with its AL East rivals this season. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. added two hits.

Berríos (4-3) allowed simply 4 hits and struck out eight and surrendered just one stroll in handing Boston its sixth loss in a row.

Boston’s Brayan Bello (3-3) gave up three runs off eight hits over six innings with a strikeout. However he didn’t get assist from a Crimson Sox lineup that has managed simply 4 runs over their final three video games. Boston was held to 1 run or none for the fifteenth time this season.

Boston opponents have scored a minimum of eight runs 4 occasions during the last 9 video games — all Crimson Sox losses.

Guerrero Jr. was a late addition the the Blue Jays’ lineup. He left their sequence finale win over Cleveland on Thursday after being hit by a pitch in his proper forearm. X-rays didn’t reveal a fracture, however supervisor John Schneider initially was going to be cautious and begin Clement at first base.

With runners on first and second with two outs within the first, Springer lined a single to middle fielder Ceddanne Rafaela. Guerrero Jr., who was on second, tried to attain and was referred to as out on Rafaela’s throw house to catcher Connor Wong. Toronto challenged, and replay confirmed Wong missed on the tag, overturning the decision.

This marks the primary six-game shedding streak for Boston since Sept. 26, 2022.

RHP Chris Bassitt (7-3, 3.61 ERA) is about to begin to make his seventeenth begin of the season for the Blue Jays on Saturday. RHP Lucas Giolito (3-1, 4.53) is slated to make his eleventh begin for the Crimson Sox.