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Its not the best time to lose to last-place teams. Al Wood Jersey . The Toronto Blue Jays will try to escape their latest trip to Fenway Park with at least one victory when they visit the Boston Red Sox for the finale of a three-game weekend series. Toronto has lost four of its last five games against Boston, helping a plummet thats seen them drop six games out of the second American League wild card position in the seasons final month. Three other teams sit between the Blue Jays and the wild card place-holder, Seattle. "Were still in this thing. Were hanging on by a thread," manager John Gibbons said. "Theyve been two close ballgames, they could have gone either way, but we just came up short." Toronto starts knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, who returns after being struck in the head with a ball off the bat of Tampa Bays Evan Longoria during Wednesday batting practice. A day earlier, hed allowed two hits in seven innings of an 8-2 win. One week prior, hed beaten the Red Sox in Toronto, 11-7, after allowing an earned run in six innings. Hes 3-0 against Boston in 2014 with a win in his lone Fenway outing in July. Boston turns to Rubby De La Rosa, whos winless in his last four starts with a 6.10 earned run average and has faced the Blue Jays three times this season while compiling an uglier 7.36 ERA. He allowed three runs in 4 2/3 innings of a matchup with Dickey on Aug. 26. In his last start, on Monday, he surrendered three runs in 5 1/3 innings of the Red Sox 4-3 win over Tampa Bay in 10 innings. On Saturday, Yoenis Cespedes and Christian Vazquez both hit RBI doubles and the Red Sox defeated Toronto, 4-3. Dustin Pedroia and Will Middlebrooks each drove in a run and David Ortiz supplied two hits and a run scored for the Red Sox. Clay Buchholz (7-8) earned the win after surrendering just two runs on four hits with five strikeouts over 6 1/3 innings. Colby Rasmus hit a two-run homer and Dioner Navarro brought in a run for Toronto, which had starter J.A. Happ (9-9) give up four runs on seven hits and three walks over six innings of work. Slick Watts Jersey . Bryce Harper? He also came into Wednesday without a long ball and hadnt driven in a run. He was hitting .160, had nearly three times as many strikeouts as hits and was dropped to seventh in the batting order. Dennis Schroder Jersey . Returning to Davis Cup tennis, Federer cruised past Ilija Bozoljac, winning 6-4, 7-5, 6-2 in less than two hours. Federer faced little challenge from Bozoljac, who served well but still was no match for his Swiss opponent. https://www.cheapthunder.com/1421h-terrance-ferguson-jersey-thunder.html . -- Center Max Unger and tight end Zach Miller are both probable for the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday against the New York Giants and Percy Harvins recovery continues to be slow.SALT LAKE CITY -- Gordon Hayward scored 22 points and Derrick Favours had 21 points and 11 rebounds to help the Utah Jazz hold off the Milwaukee Bucks 96-87 Thursday night and claim consecutive wins for just the third time this season. Hayward, Utahs leading scorer, had failed to reach double-digits in the previous two games but was efficient from the start against the Bucks with 18 in the first half. Favours took his turn as the centre of the improving Jazz offence at crunch time with seven points in the final 2:02 to clinch the game. The Jazz made all 17 free throw attempts and outrebounded the Bucks 43-34 in the matchup of teams with the worst records in each conference. Larry Sanders went 7 of 7 on field goals to lead Milwaukee with 16 points, while Luke Ridnour had 12 points and Gary Neal finished with 11. The Jazz were clinging to a 76-71 lead when Marvin Williams tipped a loose ball to Alec Burks that he turned into a layup. The Jazz stole it again on the next possession and Williams found Burks in the corner for a 3-pointer, widening the gap to 10 again. Sanders scored on a spin move to cut the lead to 83-80, but Burks hit a running hook, Trey Burke hit a long jumper and Favours dunked with 2:02 remaining to give Utah some breathing room. Playing without forward John Henson,, who has a left ankle sprain, the Bucks were outmuscled in the paint and ran out of gas after their last run in the fourth quarter. Tommy Burleson Jersey. Diante Garrett, who joined the Jazz in mid-November, seemed to be auditioning to keep his job. The point guard played 20 minutes -- the most in a competitive contest since his initial game with the Jazz -- and scored 10 points, a career high. All contracts become guaranteed for the rest of the year on Jan. 10. The Bucks three-game Western Conference road trip got off to a promising start with a 94-79 win over the Lakers in Los Angeles on Tuesday. But the Bucks couldnt keep the Jazz off the boards or get critical stops down the stretch against the Jazz. Burks had seven of his 13 points in the final period as the Jazz won their third straight home game and have won five of their last eight overall. The Bucks missed their first nine 3-point attempts. Brandon Knight finally converted a 3-pointer in the third quarter. The Bucks finished 4 of 22 from beyond the arc. NOTES: The Bucks had 17 fast-break points, including eight in the fourth quarter, to Utahs nine . The Jazz improved to 10-7 with a starting lineup of Burke, Hayward, Richard Jefferson, Williams and Favours. . Favours has 11 double-doubles (points-rebounds) this season. ' ' '