TORONTO -- David Ortiz hit two home runs, including a drive in the 11th inning that gave the Boston Red Sox a 6-5 win over the Toronto Blue Jays Monday night.\nManny Ramirez also homered for the Red Sox, who recovered after wasting a 5-0 lead and moved 3 1/2 games ahead of the second-place New York Yankees in the AL East.\nOrtiz hit a solo homer off Ted Lilly in the fourth before his go-ahead drive against Pete Walker (6-5), which gave him his eighth multihomer game this season. Ortiz has 40 homers, one short of the career high he set last year, and joined Carl Yastrzemski (1969 and '70) as the only Boston players with consecutive 40-homer seasons.\nJonathan Papelbon (1-1) pitched three hitless innings for his first major league victory.\nToronto scored five runs in the seventh after Boston starter Bronson Arroyo allowed the first three batters to reach. Gabe Gross had an RBI single off Keith Foulke, Russ Adams hit a sacrifice fly off Foulke and Vernon Wells hit a three-run homer off Mike Timlin.\nOrtiz's first homer hit off the scoreboard in right, just below the Hard Rock Cafe. After Ortiz singled in the sixth, Ramirez hit his 35th homer, a drive off the Windows restaurant in center field.\nBoston increased the lead in the seventh on Edgar Renteria's RBI single and Ortiz's run-scoring grounder off Vinnie Chulk.\nArroyo allowed three runs and five hits in six-plus innings, tying his career-high with five walks.\nRed Sox center fielder Johnny Damon didn't play because of a sore left shoulder. Damon got a cortisone shot after Friday night's game in New York, sat out Saturday and was Boston's designated hitter Sunday.
Red Sox topple Blue Jays thanks to another Ortiz game-winning hit
Boston moves 3 1/2 games ahead of New York in East
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