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BOSTON (AP) -- David Wells wouldn't mind a new ballpark in
Boston. Fenway Park has never been his favorite stadium.
|  | | Toronto's David Wells won his 8th game Thursday night. |
"When they want someone to push the button, I want to be the
guy to blow this place up," Wells said Thursday night after
leading the Toronto Blue Jays over the Boston Red Sox 11-6.
Wells (8-2) became the AL's first eight-game winner, allowing
four runs -- three earned -- and 10 hits in seven-plus innings. He
had been 6-10 at Fenway Park, his worst record in any stadium.
"I love tradition. I love this city. I love coming here,"
Wells said. "But when I get in the confines for the game, that's
when it gets me."
The Red Sox hope to build a new ballpark and plans are being
debated by Massachusetts officials.
While Wells won for the seventh time in eight starts, Shannon
Stewart went 3-for-4 with a two-run homer and scored four runs.
Carlos Delgado went 3-for-5 with three RBIs as Toronto matched its
season high with 17 hits.
"David pitched well," Toronto manager Jim Fregosi said. "He
could have finished up, but he had a little muscle spasm. He's 8-2
and he's pitched as good as anybody in the league -- except maybe
for the right-hander (Pedro down the hall (Pedro Martinez)."
Boston, which stranded 10 runners, lost for the fourth time in
five games and headed to New York for a three-game series against
the Yankees, their first meeting since New York won last year's AL
championship series 4-1. The Red Sox and Yankees are tied for the
AL East lead.
"Sometimes you have games like that," Boston manager Jimy
Williams said. "They have a very good-hitting club over there and
Wells is tough. He's been tough all year."
Pete Schourek (2-4) gave up four runs and six hits in four
innings. He had allowed only one earned run in his previous 13
innings.
"They're hitting the heck out of the ball and it's my job to
shut them down," Schourek said. "I didn't get it done tonight."
Carl Everett hit his 14th home run, a two-run shot in the ninth
off Paul Quantrill.
Jason Varitek's bad-hop RBI grounder over the head of Delgado at
first gave Boston a 1-0 lead in the second.
Toronto went ahead 3-1 in the third. Darrin Fletcher and Jose
Cruz Jr. singled, and Fletcher came around when third baseman
Wilton Veras allowed right fielder Donnie Sadler's throw to go
between his legs for an error on Cruz's hit. One out later, Stewart
homered.
Todd Greene's first homer of the year made it 4-1 in the fourth,
and the Blue Jays went ahead 6-1 in the fifth off Tim Wakefield on
Delgado's 15th homer and a run-scoring double-play grounder.
Raul Mondesi and Delgado had run-scoring singles and Tony
Batista doubled home two runs as the Blue Jays increased it to 10-2
in the seventh. Delgado had another RBI single in the eighth.
Mike Stanley had RBI singles in the fifth and seventh for
Boston, and Scott Hatteberg added an RBI double.
Game
notes
Toronto's Craig Grebeck extended his hitting streak to 11
games with a fifth-inning single. ... Boston's Darren Lewis was
back in the lineup after being sidelined since May 17 with a
strained left hamstring. ... ... Of the Red Sox' 17 losses this
season, nine have been by one run. ... Wells said he back was
"very sore" after the game.
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