Jays limp into All-Star break with loss to Sox

BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox rolled through the pre-All-Star game portion of their schedule piling up wins. Now, they’ll have a few days to sit back, relax and enjoy their historic start.

Xander Bogaerts homered in his first at-bat a day after hitting a walkoff grand slam and drove in two runs, leading the Red Sox past the Toronto Blue Jays 5-2 on Sunday to enter the break with their best record since 1949.

“I think we did great. I think the record shows,” Red Sox All-Star outfielder Mookie Betts said. “We were pretty much in every game, had a chance to win every game and we won a lot of them.”

Brock Holt also drove in two runs for the AL East-leading Red Sox (6830), who own the major league’s best record and have won 12 of their last 13 games. They lead the Yankees by 4 1/2 games going into the break.

“Anytime you’re winning you’re having fun,” Boston outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. said. “Just keep winning and you’ll keep going good.”

Betts went 0 for 3, lowering his major league-leading batting average to .359, and fellow-All Star J.D. Martinez enters the break with 29 homers and an MLB best 80 RBIs.

Teoscar Hernandez hit a two-run homer for the Blue Jays (43-52). Toronto’s dropped seven of 10 and fell to 3-10 against the Red Sox this season.

Marcus Stroman took the loss to fall to 2-7 on the season.