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(Sports Network) - The Toronto Blue Jays return home to face a red-hot Boston Red Sox team, aiming at their seventh straight win this evening when the two teams open a three-game series at Rogers Centre. Boston took all three games from its most recent set with the New York Yankees, capping the sweep by scoring seven runs in the seventh inning in an 8-3 win on Thursday after waiting out a three-hour, 27-minute rain delay at Yankee Stadium. David Ortiz scored the first run of the seventh and capped it with a two-run double, as Boston improved to 8-1 in the season series against its American League East rival. "He feels good about himself, and he should," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said of Ortiz, who is hitting .326 with 15 homers and 36 RBIs. Josh Beckett (5-2) continued his strong start to the season by allowing just two runs -- on Curtis Grandersons homer in the first -- over seven innings. He gave four hits and two walks and improved to 3-0 against New York this year. Tonight, the Red Sox turn to righty Clay Buchholz, who is 4-3 with a 3.82 ERA. Buchholz received his fourth straight no-decision on Friday against Oakland, but was awful in allowing six runs (five earned) and eight hits in 4 2/3 innings of his teams 8-6 win. Buchholz didnt get a decision versus the Jays earlier in the year and is 6-3 lifetime against them with a 2.73 ERA. Toronto, meanwhile, will counter with lefty Jo-Jo Reyes, who has won his last two starts after tying a dubious major league record by going 28 straight starts without a victory. Reyes followed up a complete game win on May 30 to beat the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, holding them to three runs and five hits in 6 1/3 frames. He is 2-4 on the year with a 4.16 ERA. "It didnt bother me before, but I have to keep the same mind-set and just go out there and take it pitch by pitch," Reyes said of the streak. "As long as I keep up the quality starts, [wins] are going to keep on coming." Reyes lost to the Red Sox earlier in the year, surrendering four runs in just three innings, in his only other appearance against them. Toronto was denied a three-game sweep over the Kansas City Royals on Thursday, as it dropped the finale at Kauffman Stadium, 3-2. J.P. Arencibia accounted for the offense with a two-run triple for Toronto, which has split its last eight games. Ricky Romero (5-6) was the hard-luck loser despite tossing his fifth career complete game. The left-hander surrendered three runs on eight hits, walked two and struck out four in eight frames. "They bunched their hits together to score the three runs on a couple of pitches that were up in the strike zone," Blue Jays manager John Farrell said. "Yet we answer right back with two of our own and still created a couple of legitimate scoring opportunities in the last two innings and yet the win is elusive as we stand here right now." 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The pins were pretty difficult on the front nine, too. "Once it warmed up and once I started to warm up myself and make a few birdies, I actually really enjoyed the back nine." Ryder Cup player Peter Hanson was second after making four straight birdies from No. 14 in shooting a 65. The Swede was followed by English pair Steve Webster and Paul Broadhurst plus Alvaro Velasco of Spain, who all shot 66. McDowell, Hansons playing partner, was next in a group of six. He eagled the par-4 No. 15 with a 30-foot putt, but then failed with a birdie attempt at the next, the same hole where his 20-footer clinched victory over Hunter Mahan in the Ryder Cup last October. "I guess Ive used all my magic up on that green," McDowell said. "Overall, Im very happy with the way I played. The course is running pretty fast and firm, so its playing reasonably short. The greens are not as good as Ive seen them here at Celtic Manor. The greens are very receptive and very soft and theres quite a lot of growth on them, so they are tough to putt on. "Generally, very happy with 4-under par, very happy with the way I struck the ball and there were a lot of good things, a lot of positives out there.dddddddddddd" McDowell is also the U.S. Open champion, his victory at Pebble Beach coming on the back of his Wales Open win in a great year for the Northern Irishman. Despite missing the cut at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth last week, he is mostly happy with his game. "I feel like Ive got a better understanding for my golf swing and what Im trying to do with it," McDowell said. "I can see my way around the golf course now. I was really happy with that ball flight, to see that coming back into my game was nice, and I drove the ball really solidly today as well." Hanson, McDowell, Miguel Angel Jimenez and Ross Fisher are the only Ryder Cup players in the field, although captain Colin Montgomerie and vice captains Darren Clarke and Thomas Bjorn are also playing. Fisher failed to come through qualifying for the U.S. Open on Monday, and needs to play well at Celtic Manor if he is to regain a place in the worlds top 50 and win a place at the tournament on Washingtons Congressional course from June 16-19. The Englishman hit back from bogeys at No. 12 and No. 13 with birdies in three of the last four holes in a 70, including at the last where his long eagle putt stopped just before the cup. Jimenez hit a 73, while Montgomerie signed for a 77 only four days after his first top-10 finish for almost three years, when he finished joint seventh at the BMW PGA Championship. John Daly made four bogeys on the front nine and two on the back in a 77. Elliot Saltman of Scotland, who completed a three-month ban from the European Tour last month for marking his ball incorrectly, had a hole-in-one at No. 17. He followed it up with an eagle in a round of 73, the same score as his brother Lloyd. wholesale jerseys china ' ' '