Cease tosses one-hitter as Blue Jays blank Red Sox

BOSTON (Interstat) — Dylan Cease pitched a complete-game one-hitter with 12 strikeouts as the Toronto Blue Jays blanked the Boston Red Sox 6-0 on Saturday evening at Fenway Park. Cease improved to 7-5 while Sonny Gray dropped to 12-2 after yielding five earned runs on 10 hits over five innings. The Blue Jays, now 48-57, erupted for five runs in the third inning. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. singled in Nathan Lukes for the first run. George Springer then crushed a three-run homer, his 11th, scoring Guerrero and Kazuma Okamoto. Ernie Clement doubled home Daulton Varsho to make it 5-0. Toronto added a run in the ninth on Guerrero’s second single. Toronto finished with 15 hits. Boston managed only one hit, a single by Andruw Monasterio. The Red Sox fell to 53-50. Attendance was 36,902. The game lasted 2 hours, 25 minutes.