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- Updated: May 28, 2016
TORONTO — As Joe Kelly spoke to the media after Friday’s 7-5 loss to the Blue Jays, a false fire alarm rang throughout the clubhouse. But the most damaging amount of noise the Red Sox dealt with in this one came from the dangerous bat of the American League’s reigning Most Valuable Player.
It isn’t much of an exaggeration to say that Josh Donaldson almost single-handedly destroyed Kelly and the Red Sox in the opener of this three-game series.
The third baseman smashed a solo homer that was projected by Statcast™ to land 398 feet away from home plate in the first. In the third, there was Donaldson again with an RBI double to right-center. Donaldson also did damage in the fourth, this time stinging an infield single in the hole to bring in another run.
And even after the Red Sox had roared back from a 5-2 deficit to tie the game in the eighth, it only set them up for more heartbreak from Donaldson.
This time, Koji Uehara felt the wrath, as Donaldson went to the opposite field and sliced one just fair and barely over the wall …
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