Betts’ slam leads Red Sox past Jays for 10th in a row

BOSTON » Mookie Betts fouled off seven pitches before hitting a grand slam that helped the Boston Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-4 on Thursday night, extending their winning streak to 10 games.

Betts added an RBI single in the seventh inning and went 2 for 4, increasing the top batting average in the majors to .352. He finished with five RBIs.

Boston has the longest current winning streak in the big leagues and hasn’t lost since getting routed by the Yankees 11-1 on July 1 in New York. At 66-29, the Red Sox are 37 games over .500 for the first time since 1949.

David Price (10-6) struck out eight over 6.2 innings for Boston, and Craig Kimbrel earned his 29th save.

Teoscar Hernandez hit a tworun homer in the first and Kendrys Morales had a solo homer for Toronto, which has lost four of five.

All-Star lefty J.A. Happ (10-6) started strong for Toronto, striking out six and holding Boston to two hits before running into trouble and some misfortune in the fourth. The Red Sox capitalized on a missed fly ball and a video review that erased what would have been the second out while scoring five runs — all unearned — before the inning ended.

YANKEES 7, INDIANS 4 » Aaron Hicks drove home Didi Gregorius from first base with a one-out double in the eighth inning off Cleveland ace Corey Kluber, sending New York to a win over the Indians.

Hicks drove a 3-2 pitch from Kluber (12-5) to deep center field, and Gregorius scored easily when the ball one-hopped the wall. Indians manager Terry Francona elected to stay with Kluber in the eighth rather than turn things over to his shaky bullpen, which has the AL’s highest ERA.

ATHLETICS 6, ASTROS 4 » Mark Canha’s two-RBI single in Oakland’s three-run eighth inning lifted the Athletics to a win over Houston. ROCKIES 5, DIAMONDBACKS 1 » Gerardo Parra and Raimel Tapia had pinch-hit RBI singles in Colorado’s three-run sixth inning, helping beat Arizona.

NATIONALS 5, METS 4 » Max Scherzer made a final pitch to start the All-Star Game on his own mound, Anthony Rendon hit two homers and Bryce Harper also connected, leading Washington over New York.

PIRATES 6, BREWERS 3 » Jameson Taillon had a career-high 10 strikeouts, Jordy Mercer tied his career high with four RBIs and Pittsburgh beat Milwaukee.