Upton leads Blue Jays past Red Sox 3-2

Mired in a four-game losing skid, the Toronto Blue Jays held a players-only meeting on Saturday, according to Mark Zwolinski of the Toronto Star.

Porcello is 20-3 after holding the Blue Jays to a pair of runs and six hits over seven innings of the Red Sox’s 13-3 romp in Toronto.

As for the Blue Jays, they’re 7-3 in their last 10 Sunday games, and 8-1 in Sanchez’s last nine starts with four days’ rest.

Toronto’s Marco Estrada (8-8) looked out of sorts from the start on a warm evening in front of a sellout crowd of 46,953.

Baltimore and Detroit share the final AL wild-card berth after Victor Martinez hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning of the Tigers’ 4-3 victory against the Orioles.

Scott Feldman and Ryan Tepera didn’t fare as well in their bat-around inning of relief in the seventh inning where the Red Sox increased their lead by an additional six runs.

Estrada is 3-5 with a 5.32 ERA in nine starts since his All-Star nod. The Indians won for the ninth time in their last 11 games, but a concern came up when starter Danny Salazar was removed after four innings due to tightness in his right forearm. Teixiera’s blast put the Yankees ahead 7-2 in the fourth inning of their sixth consecutive victory. Jose Fernandez struck out 14 and gave up three hits over just seven shutout innings as the Marlins ended the Dodgers’ five-game winning streak.

Toronto tagged another run on in the third when Aaron Hill was charged with a fielding error at the hot corner and Jose Bautista later slapped an RBI single to short. Mookie Betts has hit 187 times with 107 runs, 30 homers and 101 RBI.

Trea Turner smashed a solo homer to center with two outs in the ninth off Frank Hermann as Washington beat Philadelphia.

The Blue Jays are 69-35 when they hit at least one home run. Eduardo Nunez popped out to bring up Tomlinson.

Devon Travis 1-for-4 with 1 double. Handicappers at online sports book Bovada.lv aren’t so sure about that coming to fruition, though, listing the host club as a 1.5-run favorite.

Brandon Belt walked off Dominic Leone (0-1) to open the 12th before Joe Panik singled.

Rodriguez entered with a 2.73 ERA over his last nine starts since being recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket in July and had thrown a one-hitter over eight innings last weekend in Oakland. NY also won six straight May 18-24 and remained two games back in the wild-card race and four behind in the AL East. Obviously he’s been a huge disappointment since arriving in Boston, but he’s started to see some better results in recent pinch-hitting opportunities.