Tampa Bay 5, Toronto 2
When: 1:40 PM ET, Sunday, September 25, 2011
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Ed Hickox, 1B -
Mark Wegner, 2B -
Alfonso Marquez, 3B -
Ed Rapuano
Attendance:
21008
By SportsDirect Inc.
Wade Davis allowed just three hits over eight strong innings and the Tampa Bay Rays belted four home runs to beat the visiting Toronto Blue Jays 5-2 on Sunday.
The Rays pulled within a game of the Boston Red Sox in the American League wild-card race with the victory. The Red Sox fell 6-2 in the opener of a doubleheader against the New York Yankees, but bounced back to win the nightcap, 7-4, in 14 innings Sunday.
Davis (11-10) struck out six and retired the last nine batters he faced. Joel Peralta pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his sixth save.
B.J. Upton lined a solo home run and Ben Zobrist hit the 10th inside-the-park homer in Rays’ history in the first for a 2-0 lead. Major league home-run leader Jose Bautista ran into the right-field wall with his left knee on the play and left the game in the sixth.
Evan Longoria delivered a two-run blast that made it 4-1 in the third and Kelly Shoppach hammered a solo homer in the sixth – both off the catwalk for the Rays. Shoppach had his first three-hit game of the season.
Toronto starter Brett Cecil (4-11) allowed five hits and four runs in 3 1/3 innings, losing his seventh straight decision.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Toronto |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Brett Cecil |
Player |
Wade Davis |
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
3.1 |
IP |
8.0 |
|
1 |
Strikeouts |
6 |
|
5 |
Hits |
3 |
|
10.80 |
ERA |
2.25 |
Hitting
| Toronto |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Dewayne Wise | Player |
Kelly Shoppach |
|
1 |
Hits |
3 |
|
1 |
RBI |
1 |
|
1 |
HR |
1 |
|
4 |
TB |
6 |
|
.333 |
Avg |
.750 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Toronto
|
3 |
1 |
9 |
.100 |
7 |
6 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| Tampa Bay
|
8 |
4 |
20 |
.250 |
11 |
9 |
5 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
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