Toronto 6, Tampa Bay 2
When: 7:10 PM ET, Saturday, August 17, 2013
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Jerry Layne, 1B -
Hunter Wendelstedt, 2B -
Alan Porter, 3B -
Greg Gibson
Attendance:
25036
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Blue Jays 6, Rays 2: Adam Lind belted a pair of solo homers and Jose Bautista added another as visiting Toronto snapped Tampa Bay’s three-game win streak.
Brett Lawrie added two hits and knocked in a run for the Blue Jays, who have won three of their last four. Toronto starter J.A. Happ (3-2) allowed two runs, five hits and struck out five over 5 1/3 innings to earn his first victory in three starts since returning from the disabled list.
Evan Longoria recorded a pair of hits and scored a run for the Rays, who fell two games behind Boston in the American League East. Tampa Bay starter Roberto Hernandez (6-13) yielded five runs (four earned) and seven hits over 5 2/3 innings to suffer the loss.
Bautista hammered his 28th home run to open the scoring in the first and Lawrie’s two-out RBI single capped a two-run rally in the third to give Toronto a 3-0 lead. A sacrifice fly by Ben Zobrist and Yunel Escobar’s run-scoring single in the fourth brought the Rays within 3-2.
Lind responded by hammering a 1-2 pitch from Hernandez into the right-field seats in the sixth before Lawrie doubled and scored on a throwing error to reclaim a three-run lead. Lind delivered his second blast to right field on an 0-2 pitch in the eighth and the Blue Jays’ bullpen pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings.
GAME NOTEBOOK: The Rays placed DH Luke Scott on the 15-day disabled list due to back spasms and reinstated RHP Brandon Gomes from the 60-day DL. Gomes gave up Lind’s second homer. … It was Happ’s first appearance at Tampa Bay since getting hit in the left ear by a line drive off the bat of Desmond Jennings on May 7. Happ suffered a skull fracture and a sore knee after falling to the ground and missed three months. … It was Lind’s first multi-homer game since June 29, 2012, against the Los Angeles Angels.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Toronto
|
10 |
3 |
21 |
.278 |
11 |
6 |
5 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
| Tampa Bay
|
7 |
0 |
8 |
.212 |
11 |
7 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
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