Boston Red Sox defeat Toronto Blue Jays, 5-4

TORONTO -- Last night, Doug Mientkiewicz was on call as the Red Sox' emergency catcher in case calamity befell Doug Mirabelli, raising the uncomfortable specter of the one-time minor league catcher trying to corral Tim Wakefield's knuckleball.

He escaped that duty, serving only as a pinch runner and defensive replacement at first base for Kevin Millar in last night's 5-4 win over the Blue Jays.

But as daunting as the prospect of handling Wakefield sounded, it still pale...

TORONTO -- The life of the setup reliever, lived to the fullest here last night by Mike Timlin, is rarely rewarded in the box score with the capital `S' (as in save, or seal of approval).

But the Red Sox pulled out a 5-4 come-from-behind victory over the Jays at SkyDome, and although closer Keith Foulke officially recorded the `S', nobody saved the night more than the towering Timlin.

"You're hoping there that he can limit the damage as much as possible," said Sox st...

TORONTO -- Maybe the capricious forces that rule the baseball universe, the ones that so far this summer have dictated that 26 of the 30 teams in the major leagues would have won more one-run games than the Red Sox, finally are tilting in the Sox' favor. After last night's 5-4 escape over the Toronto Blue Jays, the one in which Ramiro Mendoza was the unlikely bridge between Mike Timlin's man-the-barricades heroics in the sixth and Keith Foulke's say-goodnight-Canada lullab...