TORONTO -

Brett Lawrie's legend continues to grow.

The Langley, B.C., native hit a walkoff solo home run in the bottom of the 11th inning Monday as the Toronto Blue Jays edged the Boston Red Sox 1-0.

Lawrie blasted a 1-1 pitch from Dan Wheeler (2-2) into the seats in left-centre and jumped into his teammates' arms at home plate after rounding the bases.

The rookie third baseman has now gone deep eight times since being promoted from triple-A on Aug. 5.

The home run made a winner of Shawn Camp (3-3) and ended a three-game losing streak for Toronto (70-71).

Jonathan Papelbon struck out Adam Lind in the 10th with the bases loaded to send the game to the 11th and both teams had a chance to score in the eighth.

The Red Sox (84-56) threatened in the top of the inning after Adrian Gonzalez hit a two-out double to right against Casey Janssen. After David Ortiz was walked intentionally, Janssen caught Kevin Youkilis looking at a third strike.

In the home half of the eighth, Mike McCoy drew a walk with one out against Alfredo Aceves, who entered in the fourth for the injured Josh Beckett. McCoy stole second before Aceves hit Eric Thames. Daniel Bard was called in from the bullpen and he retired Jose Bautista on a fly to right and struck out Lind.

The Blue Jays had manager John Farrell back in the dugout after he had missed 10 games while resting at home with pneumonia.

"The 10 days were somewhat of a helpless feeling watching on TV," Farrell said before the game.

The Blue Jays went 3-7 with bench coach Don Wakamatsu running the team, including a three-game sweep by the Yankees in a series that ended Sunday.

The Red Sox lost Beckett with two outs in the fourth inning with a sprained right ankle. Aceves took over with Edwin Encarnacion at second with an infield hit and a stolen base and Lawrie batting with a 2-2 count.

Aceves' first pitch to Lawrie was a ball and Encarnacion stole third. Lawrie walked when he was ruled to have checked his swing but Jose Molina ended the inning with a fly to left.

Beckett allowed three hits and a walk while striking out six in 3 2-3 runless innings.

Rookie Toronto starter Henderson Alvarez extended his runless string to 14 innings after holding the Red Sox to four hits before being removed after six innings and 95 pitches. He lowered his earned-run average to 2.95 with the outing after pitching eight shutout innings last week against Baltimore for his first major-league victory.

Alvarez was making his sixth major-league start Monday and retired his first eight batters before Marco Scutaro's infield single in the third. Jacoby Ellsbury extended his hit streak to 10 games with a double. Scutaro went to third and Alvarez ended the inning on Dustin Pedroia's grounder.

The Blue Jays snuffed out a potential Red Sox scoring opportunity in the fifth with a double play started by Alvarez. After Scutaro doubled with one out, Alvarez snared a comebacker from Ellsbury. Scutaro slipped between second and third and Alvarez ran at him throwing to Lawrie, who made the tag and threw to McCoy, who tagged Ellsbury sliding into second.

Notes: Attendance at Rogers Centre was 27,573. ... Right-hander Dustin McGowan was activated from the 60-day disabled list for Monday's game and was back in the major leagues for the first time in more than three years. He is coming back from two shoulder surgeries. ... McCoy started at shortstop for the second game in a row with Yunel Escobar listed as day-to-day with a sore left wrist. ... Luis Perez (3-2, 3.77 earned-run average) will start Tuesday for Toronto against Boston's Jon Lester (14-6, 3.05 ERA).