TORONTO -- Rajai Daviss speed was the undoing of the Boston Red Sox. Davis led off the 10th inning with a double and then scored on Brett Lawries hard hit to shortstop Stephen Drew as the Toronto Blue Jays snapped a three-game slide with a 4-3 win on Wednesday over Boston. "I was just looking to put it in play because I knew (Davis) was at third base and any ball you can put in play you know hes going to have a good chance to score," said Lawrie. "I choked up a bit and just tried to put it in play as best I could and ended up stinging it better than I thought I was going to." It was the second time in the game where Daviss speed on the basepaths earned Toronto (55-65) a run. The centre-fielder opened scoring in the third when he hit a sharp single to Bostons Jon Lester, where the pitcher fumbled the ball. Lesters throw to first went past Mike Napoli, letting Davis round second. Boston right-fielder Shane Victorino threw to third but the ball bounced off Davis and into foul territory, allowing the speedy Blue Jay to sprint home. "I was hoping I could just get to first. They made an errant throw and after that I just went to run," said Davis. "Honestly, I didnt know where the ball was. I heard our third-base coach (Luis) Rivera saying go, go, go! "OK, Im gone." Lester said that Daviss speed can generate errors because it makes defences hurry. "Obviously his speed makes you rush a little bit," the Red Sox starter said. "It would have been nice to keep him on third right there. The ball takes a bad hop and hits off him and scores the run." Davis went 3-for-5 and Edwin Encarnacion hit two doubles and scored a run for the Blue Jays. Esmil Rogers (3-7) pitched six innings with six strikeouts, five hits and an earned run. Reliever Brett Cecil ruined Rogers chance at a victory though, blowing Torontos 3-1 lead in the ninth inning. Brad Lincoln pitched an inning and a third in relief to earn the win for Toronto. Rogers, who started the season in the bullpen, was likely going to return to reliever duties after Wednesdays start. His strong performance against the Red Sox earned him a reprieve, however. "He was on the plate, he was making good pitches," said Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. "It all comes down to putting the ball in a good spot. He was popping it pretty good tonight too, keeping it down. "We cant put him in the pen after that, can we?" Designated hitter David Ortiz hit a home run for Boston (72-50), while Lester (10-7) gave up three runs -- two earned -- and fanned three hitters over six and a third innings of work. Brandon Workman (3-2) pitched three innings for the Red Sox and took the loss. Davis drew cheers when he led off the bottom of the 10th with his second double of the game. He then advanced to third base on Jose Bautistas groundout to short. Workman intentionally walked Encarnacion to put runners on the corners. With Lawrie at the plate, Encarnacion stole second. Lawrie then hit a sharp single off Drews glove to drive home Davis and end the game. "Kind of unfortunate, I thought I had a bead on it and at the very end it started taking off on me," said Drew. "It hit the very end of the web. At first off the bat, I thought I might be able to catch it out of the air real quick, but there was no shot. " The Blue Jays added to their 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth. Encarnacion hit a double up the third-base line and was driven in when Mark DeRosa hit a double to shallow right field. Both teams stranded runners in scoring position in the fifth inning, maintaining the Blue Jays 2-0 lead. Ortiz pulled Boston to within one on his home run to deep right field in the sixth inning. Encarnacion hit a second double to lead off the bottom of the sixth, and Lawrie reached first after being hit by a pitch. Encarnacion was moved to third when DeRosa grounded into a double play. J.P. Arencibia then doubled off the left-field wall to make it 3-1 for Toronto. Reliever Neil Wagner took the mound for the Blue Jays in the seventh, quickly retiring three Red Sox hitters. Boston manager John Farrell pulled Lester in the seventh in favour of Workman, who was dialled in for his first two innings of work. Wagner continued his efficient pitching in the eighth, retiring three Boston batters in quick succession. The right-handed pitcher threw two scoreless innings with three strikeouts. Workman was also effective for the Red Sox, striking out Encarnacion and getting Lawrie to fly out to right field. Adam Lind pinch hit for DeRosa, drawing a walk. The inning ended when Arencibia struck out swinging. Cecil took the mound in the ninth and his first out was gifted to him when Ortiz -- not known for his speed -- tried to beat out a defensive shift by bunting. The lumbering DH was thrown out at first by Arencibia. Jonny Gomes reached base when he was hit by a pitch, but Cecil settled down to fan Drew. Napoli drove the ball over the right-field fence for a two-run shot and tied the game 3-3 with two out in the ninth. Cecil unravelled after that, giving up a double to Jarrod Saltalamacchia with Will Middlebrooks reaching first after being hit by a pitch. Cecil was pulled in favour of Lincoln after giving up a single to Jacoby Ellsbury. Lincoln got the Blue Jays out of the inning when Victorino flied out to left field. Lincoln stayed on the mound for the 10th, with Pedroia reaching base on Lawries fielding error to start the inning. After Ortiz flew out to left, Lincoln struck out Gomes and got Napoli to ground out to third, setting the stage for Lawries game-winning hit. 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Charlie Adam scored both of Stokes goals at Britannia Stadium either side of Robin van Persies equalizer, with a miserable day for seventh-place United capped by first-half injuries to centre halves Jonny Evans and Phil Jones that forced them off. PORTLAND, Ore. -- To be in Providence Park for the NWSL playoff game between the Portland Thorns and Western New York Flash was to experience a success story unlike any in womens professional team sports. One wholly independent of the outcome.A story that is tempting to believe can be more how-to manual than fairytale.After his team pulled off a memorable upset against the Thorns, winning 4-3 in overtime, Western New York coach Paul Riley admitted the Flashs resulting trip to the championship game will happen ahead of schedule. He described a blueprint borrowed from FC Kansas City, the back-to-back NWSL champion whose reign officially ends this weekend.Find good young players and be patient while they grow into both their own skills and a system.Both the Flash and the Washington Spirit, with just three players between them who were on the U.S. Olympic roster (and one of those an alternate), hew to that blueprint entering the final.Earlier in the week, Riley summed up why the game this season with the most historical significance wont be Sundays final in Houston but instead the semifinal already played.The one where 20,084 people showed up because they cared who won.I think all the clubs in the league should be trying to get to that point, Riley said of the Thorns before the semifinal. What theyve done for our sport is unbelievable. I think the more success they have, the better it is for our sport.That from a man left unemployed by that same organization just a year earlier. There is nothing new or particularly profound in noting that the Thorns are successful. The paradigm is different in Oregon. The attendance for the semifinal was not only a league postseason record but very nearly more people in one afternoon than the league drew during the entirety of any of its three previous postseasons. That, after the Thorns averaged more than 16,000 fans per game in the regular season, a franchise best and nearly twice as many as any other team in the league (or the majority of teams in the WNBA, for that matter).Some of that is market, not just Portlands overall soccer affinity but specifically its connection to the womens game. The University of Portland womens team led the NCAA in attendance every year from 2005 through 2014. Even while rarely ranked in the polls in recent seasons, the Pilots still ranked fourth in Division I attendance a year ago. Yet if market were everything, the WNBAs Connecticut Sun, a short drive from Storrs and all those NCAA banners, would do more than rank in the bottom half of the leagues attendance.What doesnt get told is the fact that we really put the strength of our organization behind it in a real material way, said Merritt Paulson, owner and CEO of both the Thorns and Major League Soccers Portland Timbers. Its not that weve got some magic soccer fairy dust in Portland where everything soccer turns to gold. Weve got a really good organization here.Paulson acknowledged that it was as much a societal as business motivation when he became the only MLS owner to respond to entreaties to participate in the NWSL at its inception. It was a good ddeed more than a good investment, certainly based on the two leagues that preceded the NWSL.dddddddddddd But it wasnt treated as an afterthought, even before the support forced management to adjust numbers on even best-case expectations.Theres been a commitment here from the general manager, from the owner to do what we can -- reasonably, sensibly, do what we can to put the players in the best spot, said Mark Parsons, who took over for Riley in Portland this season after coaching the Spirit. I think that has been superb. Its not as easy as wanting to spend money. How do you spend it?Not just on international stars like midfielder Amandine Henry, or Vero Boquete and Nadine Angerer before her. This season, as one small example, the team stayed on the East Coast for two extended road trips rather than return home between games. It cost more but it cut down on fatigue. The Thorns arent a write-off or an exercise in altruism. They are a business that works.Obviously everything is just on a totally different scale with the Timbers, starting with the expenses, Paulson said. So its different levels of magnitude. But at the end of the day, its ironic because their bottom lines look really similar. The Timbers dont make that much money, but they make money. The Thorns dont make that much money, but they definitely make money.Paulson contested the notion that the Thorns are unique. He suggested the recent expansion franchises in Orlando and Houston, similarly joint ventures with MLS franchises and second and third in NWSL attendance, respectively, are kindred spirits. And he pointed to the Seattle Reign, whose attendance climbed to a four-year high even as the on-field fortunes waned, as a model of success for teams without the infrastructure of MLS connections. Still, those three teams combined drew not that many more fans than the Thorns alone.There was something gloriously different about the semifinal at Providence Park, about the hum of activity outside the stadium on an otherwise quiet Sunday afternoon, the scarves and drum beats in the stands and even the profane baying for the referees (hopefully) figurative hide. It was so different it was easy to forget that, like their counterparts across the salary-capped league, few of the non-internationals on the Thorns make enough strictly on salary to call this a full-time job.For that to change, for it to matter which teams win titles, it has to look more like this past Sunday. Be it full-size replicas or scale models.You look at the growth trajectory weve had over the last three years, its really, really steep, Paulson said. Is that sustainable through 10 or 15 years? Probably not. But I think we will continue to be on a really, really steep growth trajectory for the next several years. I think youre going to see a very different league in the next two or three years. Hopefully a league that will have at least a handful of clubs that are very similar to the Thorns in their off-the-field success. Wholesale NFL Gear Black China NFL Jerseys Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Stitched NFL Jerseys China Jerseys Wholesale Cheap Jerseys Online Stitched NFL Jerseys Wholesale NFL White Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Outlet White NFL Jerseys Cheap Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Camo Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping ' ' '