The Blue Jays now await the winner of the New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox AL Wild Card Series. The Yankees made a hard late-season charge and even tied the Blue Jays with three games left. Both teams won their final three regular season games from there, but Toronto won the head-to-head tiebreaker (8-5) with the Yankees to clinch the division.

Garrett Crochet pitched eight shutout innings, Masataka Yoshida and Carlos Narváez homered, and the Boston Red Sox beat the slumping Toronto Blue Jays 7-1.

The game went scoreless up until the bottom of the sixth inning when Blue Jays outfielder Daulton Varsho hit a stunning grand slam to right center field that drove Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Addison Barger and Anthony Santander. Shortly after, right fielder George Springer hit a homer to further the gap between the two sides.

The Boston Red Sox manager noted a concerning trend from the veteran shortstop that helped drive a loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.

Daulton Varsho hit his fifth career grand slam, George Springer added a two-run homer and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 6-1 on Thursday night to maintain a tie for the AL East lead with the New York Yankees.

Three Blue Jays pitchers combined for six perfect innings against the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night before Jarren Duran doubled against Braydon Fisher to open the seventh. Fisher, the fourth Blue Jays pitcher of the night,