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TORONTO (AP) -- It took Raul Mondesi three times before he got it
right -- and just when the Blue Jays needed it the most.
Mondesi hit a game-tying two-run double in the ninth inning and
scored on Tony Batista's single as Toronto beat the Red Sox 7-6
Tuesday night, stopping Boston's six-game winning streak.
|  | | Raul Mondesi , right, is congratulated by teammate Alberto Castillo after scoring the winning run. |
Mondesi, who went 2-for-5, twice came to the plate with the
bases loaded twice, but popped out and hit into a forceout. Both
outs came on the first pitch.
"I play aggressive. If I see something I like, I swing,"
Mondesi said. "The same way I played the game 10 years ago, is the
same way I play now."
With Boston leading 6-4, Shannon Stewart singled off Derek Lowe
(2-1) leading off the ninth, Jose Cruz doubled and Mondesi tied it
with a double off the wall in left-center field, just missing a
home run. Again, it was on the first pitch.
"He was hacking," Toronto's Darrin Fletcher said. "He can do
whatever he wants. It's green light for him."
Carlos Delgado followed with an intentional walk, Brad Fullmer
struck out and Mondesi stole third. Batista then singled off the
glove of second baseman Jose Offerman, capping Toronto's comeback
from a 4-0 deficit.
"I just made one really bad mistake to Mondesi," said Lowe,
who threw a fastball over the middle of the plate. "I had the
opportunity for the save but I blew it. You don't want to be the
guy to break up streak but it's over."
Peter Munro (1-0) pitched the ninth for his first major league
win, allowing one hit and striking out one. He arrived in the fifth
inning after being called up from Triple-A Syracuse earlier in the
day.
"It's an unbelievable feeling," Munro said. "It has been a
great day."
Boston, which has moved into first place in the AL East, one
game ahead of the New York Yankees, has outscored opponents 38-10
since Nomar Garciaparra and Carl Everett were injured last Friday.
Darren Lewis went 3-for-4 with two RBI and is 13-for-22 since
replacing Everett.
With the score 4-all, Lewis doubled off Paul Quantrill leading
off the seventh and scored with a head-first dive on Trot Nixon's
single. Pinch-hitter Brian Daubach added a sacrifice fly.
Scott Hatteberg's two-run double put Boston ahead in the second,
and the Red Sox made it 4-0 on Lewis' RBI double in the third and
Hatteberg's run-scoring groundout in the fourth.
Boston starter Tim Wakefield allowed just two hits until Darrin
Fletcher homered with one out in the fifth.
Toronto tied it in the sixth on RBI singles by Tony Batista and
Homer Bush, and a passed ball by Hatteberg with a runner on third.
Before Hatteberg's error, shortstop Manny Alexander saved a run by
keeping Bush's single in the infield.
Game notes
Pedro Martinez toyed with fans by throwing a ball on to the
top of the dugout and then pulling it back with a string. Two fans
did a belly flop trying to get it. ... Donnie Sadler, who played
shortstop on Monday, was the left fielder Tuesday. Sadler made a
nice running grab at the wall in the fourth inning. ... The Red Sox
were playing their sixth game without Garciaparra (on the 15-day
disabled list with a strained left hamstring) and fifth without
Everett (day to day with a strained right quadriceps). ... The Blue
Jays sent struggling RHP Roy Halladay to Triple-A Syracuse and
recalled Munro. Halladay was 2-4 with an 11.97 ERA in eight games,
including seven starts.
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