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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Toronto 6, Tampa Bay 5
When: 7:10 PM ET, Friday, April 23, 2010
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Dan Bellino, 1B - Jerry Layne, 2B - Mike Winters, 3B - Hunter Wendelstedt
Attendance: 22056

Aaron Hill homered in his return to the lineup and the Toronto Blue Jays held off the Tampa Bay Rays for a 6-5 victory on Friday.


Brett Cecil (1-0), making his first start of the season, picked up the win in going 6 2/3 innings and allowing four runs on six hits with eight strikeouts.

Kevin Gregg picked up the save, striking out Ben Zobrist with a runner on second to end the game.


The Blue Jays scored four times in the first inning. Vernon Wells, Jose Bautista and Alex Gonzalez had run-scoring hits in the frame off Tampa Bay starter Matt Garza (3-1).


Hill, who hadn't played since April 8 because of a hamstring injury, homered to give the Blue Jays a 6-1 lead in the sixth inning before the Rays closed the gap to 6-2 on an RBI-double by Zobrist in the bottom half. Kapler then made it 6-4 with a two-run homer in the seventh.


The Rays cut it to 6-5 in the eighth following a run-scoring single by B.J. Upton.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Toronto   Tampa Bay
Brett Cecil Player Matt Garza
Win W/L Loss
6.2 IP 5.0
8 Strikeouts 6
6 Hits 8
5.40 ERA 9.00
Hitting
Toronto   Tampa Bay
Jose Bautista Player Willy Aybar
3 Hits 2
1 RBI 1
0 HR 1
6 TB 5
.600 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Toronto 11 1 20 .289 27 12 6 5 1 0
Tampa Bay 9 2 17 .250 14 10 5 3 2 0