Toronto, 3-0

A.J. Burnett gave up zero runs over 7 2/3 innings while his teammates scratched out three runs against Tim Wakefield to claim the final match of the three-game series.

"We saw some good pitching," Terry Francona said. "We didn't have much to show for it. We had some opportunities and we put the barrel on the ball. Certainly not consistently, but we had chances."

Wakefield went seven innings, allowing three runs on six hits. He walked four and didn't record a single strikeout. It was only the third time in Wakefield's career that he threw at least seven innings and didn't strike out a single batter.

"I thought Wake was fighting it all night," Francona said. "He wasn't commanding his fastball. Not that he throws it a lot, but you could see even when he threw it, it wasn't in the strike zone."

* B.J. Ryan seemingly ended the game by forcing Coco Crisp to fly out to right with Brandon Moss on first. But second base umpire Bruce Dreckman had called a balk on Ryan for not coming to a complete stop before the pitch. John Gibbons was ejected for arguing the call. "It was a crap call. Come on," Gibbons said.

* Crisp singled to advance Moss to third, but Ryan got Jed Lowrie to look at a third strike. "You hear something, it's loud out there, you're locked in on the pitch, and it's over," said Ryan, who acknowledged he might not have stopped completely. "It's, 'All right, we won one, let's jump on the bird and get back to Toronto.' But you know what? Stuff like that happens. You be a professional about it. He made a call and he stuck by it. Right call or wrong call, it was the call that was made at the time. That's what you do. You be a man about it, go out there and make pitches, and not think so much about things in the past. It's what you can do in the future."

* David Ortiz busted the Toronto shift with a pair of singles. It was Ortiz's seventh two-hit game of the year.

* Sox pitchers have made five straight starts of at least seven innings, allowing three or less runs each time.