Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 3
When: 7:07 PM ET, Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Where: Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Dale Scott, 1B -
CB Bucknor, 2B -
Todd Tichenor, 3B -
Clint Fagan
Attendance:
15802
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Rays 4, Blue Jays 3: Kelly Johnson and Desmond Jennings hit solo homers and Alex Cobb threw 6 1/3 strong innings as surging Tampa Bay evened its series with host Toronto.
Cobb (5-2) limited Toronto to a run on three hits as the Rays won for the 10th time in 13 games. Luke Scott added a pair of RBIs while Evan Longoria went 2-for-4 with two runs scored to extend his hitting streak to 15 games.
Ramon Ortiz (1-2) lasted just 2 1/3 innings in defeat, charged with four runs on six hits.
Johnson capped Tampa Bay's two-run second inning with a blast into the first row of restricted seats in straightaway center field, and Jennings made it 3-0 an inning later with a shot over the wall in left-center. Singles by Matt Joyce and Longoria chased Ortiz later in the frame, and Scott drove in his second run of the game on a single to shallow center.
Colby Rasmus put Toronto on the board with a blast to right field in the fifth, and the Jays closed to within a pair of runs on a Jose Bautista RBI single in the eighth. Toronto struck again in the ninth on a Fernando Rodney wild pitch that brought Rasmus home, but Rodney struck out Melky Cabrera with the tying run on first base to lock down his ninth save.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Both Johnson and Jennings had defensive gems in the early going. Johnson gunned down Edwin Encarnacion trying to stretch a single into a double, while Jennings robbed Adam Lind of extra bases with a running catch at the wall in left-center. ... Toronto turned four double plays. ... Longoria is batting .400 during his hitting streak and has reached base in 44 of 45 games overall.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Tampa Bay |
|
Toronto |
|
Alex Cobb
|
Player |
Ramon Ortiz
|
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
|
6.1 |
IP |
2.1 |
|
2 |
Strikeouts |
1 |
|
3 |
Hits |
6 |
|
1.42 |
ERA |
15.43 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Tampa Bay
|
10 |
2 |
17 |
.312 |
15 |
5 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
| Toronto
|
6 |
1 |
10 |
.182 |
15 |
6 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
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