BOSTON — Yoenis Cespedes had four hits, including a game-winning single that capped a three-run 10th inning, and the Boston Red Sox rallied to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 9-8 on Friday night.

Toronto, which lost outfielder Melky Cabrera to a season-ending pinkie injury, took an 8-6 lead in the top of the 10th. The first run scored on Dioner Navarro’s infield single that followed a single by Edwin Encarnacion and a double by John Mayberry Jr. Danny Valencia then hit a fly to Allen Craig in deep right field and, when Craig was slow throwing the ball in, Mayberry scored all the way from second.

Valencia was credited with a sacrifice fly.

But in the bottom of the inning, Boston loaded the bases with none out against Casey Janssen (3-3) on singles by Mookie Betts, Xander Bogaerts and Christian Vazquez.

Will Middlebrooks singled in Betts, and Boston tied it on Dustin Pedroia’s sacrifice fly. David Ortiz hit a soft grounder to second baseman Steve Tolleson, but his toss to second hit Middlebrooks for an error that left the bases loaded.

Cespedes then drove the ball to deep center field for his fourth hit, and Jemile Weeks trotted in from third with the winning run.

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Tommy Layne (2-1) got the win.

It was Boston’s second three-run comeback of the game. The first tied it 6-all in the eighth.

Cespedes and Mike Napoli singled with none out and a double steal put them at second and third. After Craig struck out, Betts singled home Cespedes. Bogaerts then doubled in Napoli and Betts.

Jose Bautista and Encarnacion both reached the 30-homer mark for Toronto, each with a two-run shot.

Bautista’s drive into the seats above the Green Monster gave the Blue Jays a 4-3 lead in the sixth. Encarnacion’s homer went even farther as it cleared the wall behind those seats and left the ballpark in the eighth for a 6-3 lead.

Toronto went ahead 2-0 in the first on a two-run single by Adam Lind. One-out singles by Cabrera and Bautista put runners at first and second. Encarnacion struck out, but the third strike got past Vazquez for a passed ball and both runners advanced before Lind drove them in.

Boston went ahead by scoring one run in each of the first three innings.

Brock Holt led off the first with a single, stole second and scored on a single by Cespedes. With one out in the second, Betts walked, went to third on a single by Bogaerts and scored on a sacrifice fly by Vazquez.

The Red Sox went ahead 3-2 in the third when Pedroia singled, reached third on a double by Cespedes and scored on a groundout by Napoli.


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