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Josh Donaldson #20 of the Toronto Blue Jays slides in to third as Pablo Sandoval #48 of the Boston Red Sox prepares to hit the tag in the tenth inning at Fenway Park on September 8, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts.Jim Rogash/Getty Images

Josh Donaldson is not usually somebody who is at a loss for words, but Tuesday night at Fenway Park he could be excused for being just a little bit discombobulated for what transpired.

In the third inning of Toronto's game against the Boston Red Sox, the Blue Jays third baseman creamed a pitch off Boston starter Henry Owens.

The ball carried high to left field into the dark Boston night and it was difficult to judge if the blast was fair for a home run or foul as the ball curled high above the yellow foul pole.

The umpires initially declared it a foul ball, a decision that was eventually held up upon video review and Donaldson would have to settle for a walk during the at-bat.

Leading off top of the tenth of a tie ballgame, it was once again Donaldson who played a starring role of not one but two umpiring reviews on the same play.

Talk about double jeopardy.

It started when Donaldson lifted a rainmaker to left field that left the Blue Jay gasping when the ball struck off the top of the Green Monster wall only to fall back into the field of play.

"It looks like it hit on the tippity-top of the wall," was the way one Boston TV broadcaster summed it up.

Fortunately for Donaldson, who could be forgiven for believing the hit left the park and gone into his home run trot, he was hustling on the play. He scurried into third base on a slide and was deemed safe on a close call.

Afterward, the umpires decided to have another look to make sure their eyes were not deceiving them.

They ruled that his hit, while close to clearing the wall in left, did not and the triple was upheld. They also ruled that Donaldson was indeed safe at third base.

Donaldson would eventually come home to score on a single through the left side off the bat of Troy Tulowitzki, the first of a four-run uprising that would allow the Blue Jays to make off with a 5-1 win over the stubborn Red Sox.

Afterward Donaldson – after conducting his own video review utilizing the electronics within the cramped quarters of the Blue Jays clubhouse – was left rather tongue-tied when asked just how many home runs he felt he had in the contest.

"I don't know," he responded. "Apparently I had one – the first one. I don't know what the rule is on the second one. The first one, I thought it was fair. I know it ended up foul, but I mean…"

Donaldson could not finish his sentence, his tangled thought process offering up nothing better than an expletive deleted, for which he instantly apologized.

All in all, it could have gone much worse for the Blue Jays, whose mighty offence only got untracked in the telltale tenth, where they carded three of their six hits that was enough to produce the victory.

It was an important verdict as it increased Toronto's lead atop the American League East standing to 1 ½-games over the New York Yankees, who fell 2-1 to the Baltimore Orioles.

R.A. Dickey got the start for the Blue Jays and he pitched well over six innings, allowing just one run off four hits, before departing in a 1-1 game. The Blue Jays have now won each of the knuckleballer's last 10 outings.

Henry Owens was also effective starting for Boston, surrendering one run on three hits through 5.1 innings before turning the game over to his bullpen.

The victory in the game would be credited to Toronto reliever Aaron Sanchez, who faced three batters in the bottom of the ninth inning.

"The pitching was great, really, on both sides," said Toronto manager John Gibbons. "But we hit a lot of balls on the money, right at guys. They played good defence. That's the way goes sometimes. Dickey was great on through the bullpen."

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