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BOSTON -- The Blue Jays almost balked away a pivotal game in their postseason chase. Air Jordan 11 Uk .With Toronto leading in the eighth inning thanks to another strong start from 20-game winner J.A. Happ, Roberto Osuna balked in the tying run. But Ezequiel Carrera delivered a sacrifice fly in the ninth, and Toronto beat Boston 4-3 on Saturday night to move into a tie with Baltimore for the top spot in the AL wild-card race.We had the lead and the tying run scores on balk. I was worried about the baseball gods, said manager John Gibbons, whose team is tied with the Orioles at 88 wins with one game to play. We want to enjoy this one. Theyre hard to come by.Toronto owns the tie-breaker with Baltimore and would host the wild-card game if it wins the season finale Sunday. Detroit is also still in the wild-card hunt but would require losses by the Jays or Orioles to get in.With the loss, Boston fell one-half game behind Cleveland in the race for home-field advantage when their AL Division Series begins on Thursday.Obviously, we would like the home-field advantage, Boston utilityman Brock Holt said. Well come ready to go tomorrow. Hopefully well play that first game here.One night after the Blue Jays blew a 3-1 lead and gave up the winning homer to the soon-to-be-retired David Ortiz, Happ seemed poised to pick up his 21st win. But with Toronto leading 3-2 in the eighth, Mookie Betts doubled, took third on Holts hard-hit double-play ball and then scored to tie it when the Blue Jays closer Osuna stopped his motion after starting to get into the stretch.That was a pretty obvious one, said Betts, who had two hits and scored twice for Boston.Osuna got Jackie Bradley Jr. to end the inning.With Red Sox closer Craig Kimbrel (2-6) pitching in the ninth, Michael Saunders drew a leadoff walk, and then pinch-runner Dalton Pompey took second on a sacrifice bunt, third on a wild pitch and scored on Carreras fly to left.We grinded out at-bats, said Torontos Kevin Pillar, who drove in three runs on a pair of RBI singles. We know what the alternative is: going home. You dont put this much work in to fold up shop and go home.Kimbrel has losses in two of his last three appearances, issuing six walks while completing two innings. Since Sept. 22, his ERA has risen from 2.52 to 3.40.The 21-year-old Osuna (4-3) retired the Red Sox in order in the ninth to recover from his sixth blown save of the season.FOR STARTERSHapp pitched 6 1/3 innings of four-hit ball, allowing allowed two runs while walking five and striking out one.Boston starter Eduardo Rodriguez allowed three runs -- all on RBI singles by Pillar -- three hits and five walks, striking out nine.FAREWELL PAPIOrtiz walked and singled in three plate appearances before he was replaced in the fifth inning by a pinch-runner. The Red Sox designated hitter tipped his batting helmet to the crowd that stood and chanted Papi! for the second consecutive night.Ortiz, 40, has announced this season will be his last. The Red Sox already extended his career by winning the AL East, but they are using his final regular season series to celebrate him.Before Saturdays game, Ortiz was joined on the field by other Boston sports stars, including Bruins legend Bobby Orr, NFL Hall of Famer Andre Tippett and the entire current Celtics roster. Several of the players asked Ortiz to sign their jerseys and pose for selfies with them.UP NEXTBlue Jays: RHP Aaron Sanchez (14-2, 3.06 ERA) goes in the regular season finale Sunday. Hes allowed one run over six innings in each of his last two starts after extended rest for a blister.Red Sox: Former Blue Jays left-hander David Price (17-9, 4.04) will start for Boston on Sunday. He took the loss in his previous start Tuesday against the Yankees, giving up six runs and 12 hits in 6 1/3 innings, halting his career-best, eight-game winning streak. Air Jordan 11 Retro Uk . Robinson finished with 17 points, all but two in the second half, and Lawson had 14 after halftime and finished with a game-high 11 assists as the Nuggets handed Dallas its first home loss in eight games this season. J.J. Hickson led Denver with 22, and Kenneth Faried added 10 points and 10 rebounds. Air Jordan Retro 11 Wholesale . Traditional contenders Brazil, Greece and Turkey drew the other three spots to complete the 24-team field for this summers tournament in Spain, basketball governing body FIBA announced Saturday at its meeting in Barcelona. http://www.cheapairjordan11uk.com/ . Denis Coderre, the former federal MP who was elected mayor on Nov. 3, has drawn the ire of some Montreal Canadiens. During last nights game he tweeted: "Hello? Can we get a one-way ticket to (minor-league) Hamilton for David Desharnais please. Argentina will try to put the failure of past David Cup campaigns behind it when it goes for its first title in its fifth finals appearance against Croatia in November.The Argentines, who previously lost in the finals in 1981, 2006, 2008 and 2011, got another shot at the trophy after Leonardo Mayer sealed his teams thrilling 3-2 win over defending champion Britain by beating Dan Evans in the deciding match of their semifinal tie on Sunday.Croatia advanced to the Davis Cup final for only the second time with Marin Cilics straight-set win over Frances Richard Gasquet, which gave his side an unassailable 3-1 lead over the French with one singles rubber left to play.Argentina is one of four countries, along with Belgium, India and Romania, that has yet to win the Davis Cup after reaching more than one final. The Argentines, however, have been on the losing end in championship rubbers more than anyone else, losing to Spain twice (2008, 2011), Russia (2006) and the United States (1981).Croatia, which beat Slovakia to win the title in 2005, will host the finals from Nov. 25-27.In front of a home crowd in Glasgow, Scotland, Andy Murray ensured that Britains semifinal against Argentina would go to the deciding match when he breezed past Guido Pella in straight sets in the opening singles match on Sunday, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3.Evans expected to face Juan Martin del Potro, who beat Andy Murray on Friday, in the decider, but the former U.S. Open champion did not want to risk his fragile body after wrist injuries earlier in the year, so Mayer was named as a last-minute substitution.Mayer, who is ranked 114th, then rallied to defeat the 53rd-ranked Evans 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.Leos match was something we believed could happen, but I think it was a great effort from his part after playing a little nervous in the first set, Argentina captain Daniel Orsanic said.. Discount Air Jordan 11. .In Zadar, Croatia, Cilic beat Gasquet 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 in the first singles match on Sunday to clinch the tie for the hosts.Cilic, the 2014 U.S. Open champion, won both of his singles matches and teamed up with Ivan Dodig on Saturday to stun top-ranked doubles pair Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert.Marin Draganja replaced Borna Coric for the meaningless final rubber and lost 6-4, 6-4 to Lucas Pouille.We are still pinching ourselves, thats how excited we are with the result, Croatia captain Zelko Krajan said.Nine-time champion France played without Gael Monfils and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who were both ruled out by knee problems.In other results, Jan-Lennard Struff defeated Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (4), 6-4, 6-1 to preserve Germanys World Group status with a 3-2 win over Poland in their playoff.Earlier, Marcin Matkowski upset Florian Mayer 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 as Poland came from 2-0 down to level the tie.Russia is also returning to the top level of the Davis Cup for the first time since 2012 after beating Kazakhstan 3-1.The schedule was backed up due to rain on Friday, leaving four potential matches to play Sunday. Kazakhstans Mikhail Kukushkin beat Russias Evgeny Donskoy to level the tie at 1-1 in the first match of the day, but Russia captured the doubles and then sealed the win when Andrei Kuznetsov beat Kukushkin 6-1, 6-2, 6-2.A Swiss team lacking stars Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka came back to defeat Uzbekistan in their World Group playoff 3-2, with 507th-ranked Antoine Bellier securing the final point with a 6-2, 6-4, 6-7 (8), 6-3 win over Jurabek Karimov.The other teams returning to the World Group next year after winning playoffs this weekend are Spain, Belgium, Australia, Canada and Japan. ' ' '
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