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TORONTO -- The Toronto Blue Jays feel that they received a jolt of energy from a players-only team meeting before their game Saturday against the Boston Red Sox.Toronto posted a 3-2 victory to gain a split in the first two contests of the key three-game series between the two top teams in the American League East.The Blue Jays moved back to within one game of the Red Sox in the division.The real test will come Sunday in the rubber match of the series and it will take a strong start by Aaron Sanchez, who is second in ERA in the AL, to pull the Blue Jays even in the East.He will be opposed by Boston starter Clay Buchholz, who is 11-3 with a 2.18 earned-run average in 16 games -- including 15 starts -- at Rogers Centre.The Blue Jays had a good start from J.A. Happ, supported by strong relief pitching Saturday in the win over the Red Sox to stop a four-game losing streak.We had better energy than weve had in a while today, Happ said. I think we had a general good feeling about it so it was a fun game. From first pitch to last, it seemed like our dugout was really into this one.As for the meeting itself, Happ said: It was overwhelmingly positive. It ended on a very good note. I feel like that translated into the game. So just keep moving forward. Youre trying to bring that energy and the enthusiasm and put up zeroes all the time but maybe there was a little bit extra (after the meeting), Im not sure.Judging from how the game went and the feeling here, I think everything was a positive from it.Despite the loss, the Red Sox are 18-10 in their past 28 games, second to the New York Yankees (19-9) in that span. The Blue Jays are 14-14 in their past 28 games, spinning their wheels.Both teams have struggled in one-run games this season.The Red Sox are 16-21 in those close encounters and the Blue Jays are 16-23.The Red Sox are 5-3 with one contest left on a nine-game trip and all three losses have been by one run. They won the series opener 13-3 on Friday.Jackie Bradley Jr. does not feel Boston plays differently in close games.I dont think so, he said. Hitting is contagious so when were winning the blowout games it keeps coming but thats not going to happen every day. You have to find a way to win whether its a close game or a high-scoring game.Many, many times weve shown the ability to put up a quality offensive game, Red Sox manager John Farrell said. He shut us down today. We were a swing of the bat away. Unfortunately they made a couple of key pitches.In two starts against the Red Sox this season, Sanchez is 1-0 with a 2.63 ERA. He is 3-1 with a 2.70 ERA in 12 career games, including four starts, against Boston.Buchholz, who has been switching between the bullpen and starting rotation, is 2-0 with a 2.31 ERA in his past four starts.He has not allowed a run in 8 2/3 innings in three appearances against the Blue Jays this season. 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Price, heading to the 2014 Olympics for Canada, was named the First Star after posting wins in three starts with a 1.00 goals-against average and a .971 save percentage.RIO DE JANEIRO -- Lydia Ko could hear the cheers as she played the Olympic Golf Course, only they werent for her.Not yet, anyway.The No. 1 player in womens golf played five holes about the time Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson were battling to the very end for the sports first Olympic medals in 112 years. She did make it to the 18th green in time to see the medals, and she got a photo with Rose and his gold.Hopefully, his vibes came off to me, she said Monday.Now its the womens turn.Even as the men were finishing up the final round, the women were allowed to resume preparations for the start of their event Wednesday. Ko didnt even wait that long. She was on the course in the morning to watch fellow her fellow Kiwi golfers, Danny Lee and Ryan Fox.I dont think Ive ever been such a huge fan, she said. Normally, I love my sleep. Yesterday, I slept a little less. I told them both, `I dont think I ever woke up at 7 a.m. to watch someone else play.Ko is the favorite, as she is most weeks on the LPGA Tour. She already has won four times this year, including her second major at the ANA Inspiration in California, and she was runner-up to Brooke Henderson of Canada in the KPMG Womens PGA Championship.Whats special about this week is playing for the flag, which she has never done as a professional.Ko is not eligible for the Solheim Cup, which is for Americans and Europeans. New Zealand does not have the depth to form a team for the International Crown, which was the closest event golf had to the Olympics before the Olympics came along.There is no team component to golf in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, so this week really is no different. It just feeels that way.ddddddddddddEven though there Im the only New Zealand woman golfer in this week, I think its not more about our sport, but just every other athlete and every other athlete from New Zealand, Ko said. I do feel that team vibe. I heard that some of the athletes might come out and watch me play, and I think even more then Ill be super excited to see the Silver Fern and see all the logos.Its a quick turnaround for the women. The competition starts Wednesday so the Olympics can conclude ahead of Sundays closing ceremony. Some of the men were able to take part in the opening ceremony and spent the early part of the week going to other events.Ko chose not to be part of the opening ceremony and didnt arrive until Saturday because she thought a week in Rio would be too much. She also is not staying in the athletes village, though she did eat there over the weekend.Just to be in the team vibe, wear the uniform, go out yesterday and watch the guys play, its been really great so far, she said. And its only going to go up.This is the second time in three years that the women have played on the same course a week after the men. The U.S. Open staged the men and women at Pinehurst No. 2 in 2014, and the USGA pulled it off exceptionally well. The course played shorter, but the women still were hitting roughly the same shots into green.Ko is expecting the same from what little she has seen of the Olympic Golf Course.Im pretty sure I do not hit a 9-iron at the same place Bubba Watson is hitting a 9-iron, she said. ' ' '