Major League Baseball
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Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 4
When: 1:07 PM ET, Saturday, August 23, 2014
Where: Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Temperature: 68°
Umpires: Home - John Tumpane, 1B - Bill Welke, 2B - James Hoye, 3B - Bob Davidson
Attendance: 37451

Blue Jays 5, Rays 4 (10): Jose Reyes singled home the winning run with two outs in the 10th inning as Toronto defeated visiting Tampa Bay to even the series at one victory apiece.

Colby Rasmus reached on a bunt single for his second hit to open the 10th off Joel Peralta (2-4) and stole second with two outs. Reyes followed with his second RBI hit on a single to left off Jeff Beliveau to make a winner of reliever Dustin McGowan (5-3), who pitched a scoreless 10th inning.

Dioner Navarro belted a two-run homer while Melky Cabrera collected two hits and an RBI for the Blue Jays, who trail Seattle by 4 1/2 games in the race for the American League’s second wild card. Sean Rodriguez and Ben Zobrist each recorded a pair of hits and an RBI for the Rays, who have dropped five of their last seven contests.

Zobrist’s RBI bunt single gave the Rays the lead in the third, but RBI doubles by Reyes and Cabrera ended Tampa Bay’s 22-inning shutout streak in the bottom of the frame. Jose Molina ripped an RBI single up the middle and Rodriguez followed with a run-scoring double to left to give the Rays a 3-2 lead in the seventh.

The Blue Jays responded in the bottom of the frame, though, as Edwin Encarnacion doubled off reliever Brad Boxberger with one out and Navarro lined his 10th homer over the right-field fence. The Rays tied it in the ninth against Toronto closer Casey Janssen, who blew his third save as James Loney served a one-out RBI single to left.

GAME NOTEBOOK: The Rays saw their streak of 19 straight road games in which they allowed three or fewer runs come to an end -- two shy of the major-league record set by the Chicago Cubs in 1908. … Toronto starter Mark Buehrle yielded three runs on eight hits in 6 1/3 innings and his counterpart Jeremy Hellickson completed the same amount of frames while permitting two runs on three hits with eight strikeouts. … Tampa Bay played the game under protest after OF Wil Myers was ruled out on a pick-off attempt in the fourth inning, following a challenge by Toronto manager John Gibbons. Tampa Bay manager John Maddon argued that Buehrle was on the rubber and Yunel Escobar in the batter’s box before the challenge was asked for, making it invalid.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Tampa Bay   Toronto
Jeremy Hellickson Player Mark Buehrle
No Decision W/L No Decision
6.1 IP 6.1
8 Strikeouts 2
3 Hits 8
2.84 ERA 4.26
Hitting
Tampa Bay   Toronto
Sean Rodriguez Player Melky Cabrera
2 Hits 2
1 RBI 1
0 HR 0
3 TB 3
.667 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Tampa Bay 11 0 12 .282 17 4 4 3 0 0
Toronto 9 1 16 .250 9 11 5 1 1 1
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