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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Tampa Bay 9, Toronto 1
When: 7:10 PM ET, Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Adrian Johnson, 1B - Cory Blaser, 2B - Lance Barksdale, 3B - Gary Cederstrom
Attendance: 11803

Robinson Chirinos hit his first career home run and James Shields rebounded from a rough outing by pitching into the eighth inning as the Tampa Bay Rays trounced the visiting Toronto Blue Jays 9-1 on Wednesday.

With two runners on base and Tampa leading 5-1, Chirinos - a 27-year-old rookie catcher - deposited an offering from Carlos Villanueva (6-3) over the left-field wall as part of a four-run third inning. Villanueva lasted only one more batter and was torched for eight runs on nine hits in his shortest start of the season.

Chirinos finished with a career-high four RBIs as the Rays pounded out 12 hits against four Toronto pitchers.

Shields (10-9) limited Toronto to one run on three hits over 7 1/3 innings. It marked a vast improvement from his previous start, when he was roughed up for a season-high 10 runs in a one-sided loss to Oakland.

Ben Zobrist and Casey Kotchman also took Villanueva deep while Matt Joyce went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI.

J.P. Arencibia hit his 18th home run - and sixth in the past 10 games - for the Jays.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Toronto   Tampa Bay
Carlos Villanueva Player James Shields
Loss W/L Win
2.2 IP 7.1
1 Strikeouts 6
9 Hits 3
27.00 ERA 1.23
Hitting
Toronto   Tampa Bay
J.P. ArencibiaPlayer Matt Joyce
1 Hits 3
1 RBI 1
1 HR 0
4 TB 4
.333 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Toronto 5 1 9 .156 11 8 1 3 0 1
Tampa Bay 12 3 24 .353 15 9 9 3 0 0