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BOSTON -- The Blue Jays almost balked away a pivotal game in their postseason chase.With Toronto leading in the eighth inning thanks to another strong start from 20-game winner J.A. Happ, Roberto Osuna balked in the tying run. But Ezequiel Carrera delivered a sacrifice fly in the ninth, and Toronto beat Boston 4-3 on Saturday night to move into a tie with Baltimore for the top spot in the AL wild-card race.We had the lead and the tying run scores on balk. I was worried about the baseball gods, said manager John Gibbons, whose team is tied with the Orioles at 88 wins with one game to play. We want to enjoy this one. Theyre hard to come by.Toronto owns the tie-breaker with Baltimore and would host the wild-card game if it wins the season finale Sunday. Detroit is also still in the wild-card hunt but would require losses by the Jays or Orioles to get in.With the loss, Boston fell one-half game behind Cleveland in the race for home-field advantage when their AL Division Series begins on Thursday.Obviously, we would like the home-field advantage, Boston utilityman Brock Holt said. Well come ready to go tomorrow. Hopefully well play that first game here.One night after the Blue Jays blew a 3-1 lead and gave up the winning homer to the soon-to-be-retired David Ortiz, Happ seemed poised to pick up his 21st win. But with Toronto leading 3-2 in the eighth, Mookie Betts doubled, took third on Holts hard-hit double-play ball and then scored to tie it when the Blue Jays closer Osuna stopped his motion after starting to get into the stretch.That was a pretty obvious one, said Betts, who had two hits and scored twice for Boston.Osuna got Jackie Bradley Jr. to end the inning.With Red Sox closer Craig Kimbrel (2-6) pitching in the ninth, Michael Saunders drew a leadoff walk, and then pinch-runner Dalton Pompey took second on a sacrifice bunt, third on a wild pitch and scored on Carreras fly to left.We grinded out at-bats, said Torontos Kevin Pillar, who drove in three runs on a pair of RBI singles. We know what the alternative is: going home. You dont put this much work in to fold up shop and go home.Kimbrel has losses in two of his last three appearances, issuing six walks while completing two innings. Since Sept. 22, his ERA has risen from 2.52 to 3.40.The 21-year-old Osuna (4-3) retired the Red Sox in order in the ninth to recover from his sixth blown save of the season.FOR STARTERSHapp pitched 6 1/3 innings of four-hit ball, allowing allowed two runs while walking five and striking out one.Boston starter Eduardo Rodriguez allowed three runs -- all on RBI singles by Pillar -- three hits and five walks, striking out nine.FAREWELL PAPIOrtiz walked and singled in three plate appearances before he was replaced in the fifth inning by a pinch-runner. The Red Sox designated hitter tipped his batting helmet to the crowd that stood and chanted Papi! for the second consecutive night.Ortiz, 40, has announced this season will be his last. 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Crestfallen senior Warriors players have expressed their bitterness at facing a fifth consecutive season without finals football.The Warriors went into Sundays match against Wests Tigers knowing only a win would do to keep them in the finals hunt after back-to-back losses to Souths and North Queensland.However a disastrous final 10 minutes, in which the Tigers steamrolled a pliant Warriors defence to bag three tries, condemned the side to yet another early off-season.The 36-24 defeat was particularly hard to take for five-eighth Thomas Leuluai, who will depart the club after next weeks match against Parramatta.He struggled to find the words to sum up his misery.I havent felt like this after a game for a long time, Leuluai said.All credit to the Tigers but I think we lost that one ourselves.Skipper Ryan Hoffman echoed his five-eighths remarks, saying the Warriors had beaten tthemselves through porous defending.ddddddddddddThe team had been gifted a path back into the top eight after the Titans loss to Penrith on Saturday and failed to capitalise.We lapsed and didnt have that desperation on the tryline, Hoffman said.We didnt make the Tigers work hard for a lot of tries.We had an opportunity and we didnt want to grab it with two hands.Veteran winger Manu Vatuvei said he felt blank after the siren, knowing his side had thrown away a chance at victory.All that was left to do was put in a good shift for the fans in next weeks dead rubber.All you have to do is look at the video to see what went wrong, Vatuvei said.It comes down to little areas, errors and stuff, Ive made a few errors out there.Im just gutted at the moment. 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