Toronto 8, Tampa Bay 7
When: 7:10 PM ET, Monday, May 6, 2013
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Mike Everitt, 1B -
Marty Foster, 2B -
Scott Barry, 3B -
Tim Welke
Attendance:
9952
By SportsDirect Inc.
Blue Jays 8, Rays 7: J.P. Arencibia's two-run homer in the ninth inning propelled Toronto to a stunning come-from-behind win over host Tampa Bay.
Arencibia, who entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the sixth, drilled a fastball from Rays closer Fernando Rodney (1-1) into the left-field seats for his ninth of the season. It capped a rally from a 7-0 deficit and made a winner out of Darren Oliver (1-1), who allowed a hit and a walk in a scoreless eighth.
Colby Rasmus and Mark DeRosa each added two-run homers while Casey Janssen preserved the victory with his eighth save. Toronto won for just the fifth time in 17 games while registering back-to-back wins for the first time since April 12-13.
The Rays did all their scoring in the third, sending 10 men to the plate. Already leading 1-0, Evan Longoria launched a grand slam to left field off Toronto starter Mark Buehrle and Luke Scott capped the onslaught with a two-run shot down the right-field line.
Rasmus' two-run shot off Jeremy Hellickson kickstarted the uprising in the fourth, and DeRosa's pinch-hit homer to right in the sixth made it 7-5. Toronto put runners on second and third in the seventh and eighth innings but managed only Jose Bautista's RBI sacrifice fly.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Hellickson allowed three runs on six hits over five innings while Buehrle was tagged for seven runs on nine hits over six frames. Buehrle, whose ERA ballooned to 7.02, has allowed eight home runs over his last three starts. ... Bautista finished 2-for-3, posting his first multi-hit game of the season. Bautista has hit safely in nine of the past 10 games. ... Two of Longoria's three career grand slams have come against the Blue Jays.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Toronto
|
12 |
3 |
21 |
.316 |
23 |
8 |
8 |
7 |
2 |
0 |
| Tampa Bay
|
11 |
2 |
18 |
.297 |
14 |
7 |
7 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
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