The Toronto Blue Jays rode the big bats of the previously cold Frank Thomas and the red-hot Aaron Hill to a 7-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Monday night at Fenway Park.

Thomas, who came into the game hitting just .215 with two homers, crushed a Tim Wakefield knuckleball over the Green Monster in left field in the sixth inning, a two-run shot that put the Jays ahead to stay.

Frank Thomas, right, is high-fived by Vernon Wells after homering in the sixth inning of Monday's 7-3 win.
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Hill, who went four-for-five on the night and came in at .303, powered his fourth homer of the year in the ninth inning, scoring Vernon Wells in front of him, to put the Jays up 7-3.

The win brought Toronto back to within a game of .500 at 8-9, while Boston, still on a high after sweeping the New York Yankees on the weekend, dropped to 12-6.

Tomo Ohka (1-2) earned the win with five-plus innings of six-hit ball, giving up three runs, two of them earned, and two walks.

Jason Frasor pitched an inning and a third for his second save.

Wakefield (2-2) took the loss on six complete, giving up four runs, three earned, eight hits and two walks.

Jays solve Wakefield

Toronto opened the scoring against Wakefield in the top of the first thanks to Vernon Wells, who doubled, stole third and came home when catcher Doug Mirabelli's throw bounced into left field for an error.

Wakefield, who had befuddled the Jays last week at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, worked his way to the sixth giving up just three more hits.

Enter Thomas, hitting .176 with but one homer in the last 10 games. A check of the stats, however, shows the man long called the Big Hurt with a career .331 at Fenway Park with 16 round-trippers and 52 RBI in 68 games.

Simply put, he loves the place, as he showed by blasting Wakefield's high knuckler off the Volvo advertising sign above the screen in left.

"I just left the ball up," Wakefield said. "That's probably the turning point."

It left Thomas 10 short of 500 homers.

"That's always been a goal of mine," he said. "There's 10 more to go, but that's a long way to go. I don't want to be done [playing] after this year, though."

The Jays weren't done in the sixth, either. Aaron Hill contributed his second hit of the night, doubling into the left field corner, and came around to score on a two-out single by Jason Phillips, playing for Lyle Overbay, who missed the start with the flu.

Boston had gone ahead in the fourth when starter Tomo Ohka (0-2 coming in), who had dodged trouble in two of the first three innings, opened the fourth by giving up a seeing-eye single to J.D. Drew.

He then loaded them up on a single, a fielder's choice and a walk before Dustin Pedroia doubled home a pair for a 2-1 lead.

Bumpy ride

Ohka's bumpy ride lasted to the sixth when manager John Gibbons yanked him following a lead off single and leading 4-2.

Casey Janssen came in and immediately had Wily Mo Pena line a sharp one just off the end of third baseman John McDonald's glove into left.

But Janssen got the next two on fly balls and, with a full-count, got Julio Lugo to ground to shortstop Royce Clayton — who promptly sailed it over the first baseman's head for a run-scoring error to make the score 4-3.

Kevin Youkilis grounded out to end the threat.

Toronto restored the two-run lead with some traditional small-ball. After his second double of the night, Aaron Hill advanced to third on Royce Clayton's sacrifice bunt and came home on a sacrifice fly to right by pinch-hitter Adam Lind.

Relievers Scott Downs and Jeremy Accardo took the game to two outs in the eighth when stopper Frasor, who hadn't thrown since last Friday, came out of the bullpen to get Julio Lugo to ground out and end the inning.