– The Associated Press

TORONTO – David Ortiz knows plenty about power hitting and he doesn’t understand why Jose Bautista isn’t in the home run derby at the All-Star game.

Ortiz, the Red Sox slugger, might have a point.

Bautista hit his major league-leading 24th home run, Alex Gonzalez and Adam Lind also went deep and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Boston 9-5 on Saturday.

“(Bautista) should be there because he’s a home run hitter and he’s swinging the bat really good,” Ortiz said. “I think he’s definitely got to be in.”

The final two spots in Monday’s derby went to New York Yankees outfielder Nick Swisher and Arizona’s Chris Young on Saturday. But rather than force Bautista to watch from the sidelines, Ortiz thinks Major League Baseball’s decision makers “have to put him in.”

“I was surprised he wasn’t in it but I thought it was because the Blue Jays didn’t want him to go,” Ortiz said. “I talked to him (Friday) and he told me was ready to go, he just wasn’t invited. I was like, ‘What?’ There’s still time, there’s still time for them to put him back in.”

Bautista, whose previous career best was 16 home runs, is surprised he hasn’t been asked to participate.

“A little bit, but it’s nothing I can control,” he said. “I just have to sit here and wait. We’ll see what happens.”

The Blue Jays, who lead the majors with 135 homers, extended their streak of multihomer games to seven and have hit 20 home runs during that span. The club record for consecutive multihomer games is eight, set June 17-25, 2000.

Lind had three hits and Gonzalez added three RBI for Toronto. Fred Lewis doubled twice, scored twice, stole two bases and drove in the go-ahead run.

Shawn Camp (3-1) pitched 12/3 innings for the win and Kevin Gregg got four outs for his 20th save in 23 chances.

Boston right-hander John Lackey (9-5) allowed seven runs and eight hits in 42/3 innings. He walked six, a season high.

“Command was kind of a struggle for him from the very beginning,” Red Sox Manager Terry Francona said.

J.D. Drew’s bases-loaded walk gave Boston a 1-0 lead in the first, but Toronto scored three in the bottom half. Gonzalez hit an RBI double, Lind singled home a run and Aaron Hill drove in the third with a fielder’s choice.

The Red Sox took a 4-3 lead in the second on a two-run double by Daniel Nava and an RBI double by Ortiz, then added a run Marco Scutaro’s RBI single in the third.

Toronto tied it in the fourth when Gonzalez drilled a two-run homer to left, his 17th.

Lewis chased Lackey and put Toronto in front for good with a two-run, check-swing double down the left-field line in the fifth, scoring Hill and Lyle Overbay.

“That’s kind of the way things have been going for me,” Lackey said.

Francona and outfielder Mike Cameron were ejected for arguing with plate umpire Jeff Kellogg after Cameron struck out looking in the seventh.

Cameron, who had returned to the dugout, was ejected for the first time this year and described it as “kind of weak.”

“We had a disagreement,” Cameron said. “It seemed like everybody on our team had a disagreement today.”