Toronto 3, Tampa Bay 0
When: 7:10 PM ET, Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Jim Wolf, 1B -
David Rackley, 2B -
Brian Gorman, 3B -
Bill Welke
Attendance:
10808
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Blue Jays 3, Rays 0: Mark Buehrle threw 8 2/3 shutout innings and Jose Bautista slammed a pair of solo homers as Toronto earned at least a split of its four-game series with host Tampa Bay.
Buehrle (1-0) was dominant from start to finish, allowing just four hits while striking out 11 and walking one. He left after allowing a Ben Zobrist single with two outs in the ninth, and Brett Cecil came on to secure the four-pitch save after Sergio Santos walked the only hitter he faced.
Rays left-hander Matt Moore (0-1) was charged with two runs on six hits over 5 2/3 innings, walking three and striking out four. The Rays didn't give him much help, failing to get a runner past second base en route to their second straight defeat.
Bautista put an end to the scoreless deadlock with a blast 15 rows deep into the seats in left-center field leading off the fourth. Toronto doubled its lead two batters later, as Dioner Navarro slapped a single to right field to bring home Edwin Encarnacion from second.
Bautista extended the lead in the seventh with a blast off the outer roof ring at Tropicana Field, securing his first multi-homer game since June 29. Buehrle made the advantage stand, getting a double-play grounder from Logan Forsythe in the seventh to extinguish a minor threat and striking out the side in a 1-2-3 eighth.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Blue Jays 3B Brett Lawrie preserved Buehrle's shutout in the fifth, leaping to snag a Sean Rodriguez liner with one out and Forsythe on second. ... Buehrle tossed the 18th perfect game in major-league history against Tampa Bay in 2009, but was 0-2 with a 5.76 ERA in four starts against the Rays last season. ... A victory in Thursday's finale would give Toronto its first series win in St. Petersburg since 2007; the Jays have gone 0-19-1 since.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Toronto |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Mark Buehrle
|
Player |
Matt Moore
|
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
|
8.2 |
IP |
5.2 |
|
11 |
Strikeouts |
4 |
|
4 |
Hits |
6 |
|
0.00 |
ERA |
3.18 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Toronto
|
9 |
2 |
17 |
.250 |
24 |
5 |
3 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
| Tampa Bay
|
4 |
0 |
5 |
.138 |
10 |
12 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
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