Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Tampa Bay 6, Toronto 5
When: 1:07 PM ET, Sunday, September 14, 2014
Where: Rogers Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Temperature: 58°
Umpires: Home - Tom Hallion, 1B - Hal Gibson III, 2B - Chris Guccione, 3B - Paul Nauert
Attendance: 28633


Rays 6, Blue Jays 5 (10): Sean Rodriguez hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the 10th inning while Ben Zobrist and Yunel Escobar homered as visiting Tampa Bay overcame squandering a late four-run lead to take the rubber game of the weekend series.

Wil Myers walked leading off the 10th against Brandon Morrow (1-3), Logan Forsythe singled and Brett Cecil walked Escobar to load the bases before Rodriguez’s fly ball to center. Escobar and Brandon Guyer finished with three hits apiece, Jake McGee (5-2) got the victory despite allowing John Mayberry Jr.’s game-tying, pinch-hit solo homer with two outs in the ninth and Jeff Beliveau recorded the final out of the 10th for his first major-league save.

Edwin Encarnacion’s solo homer in the seventh and Adam Lind’s three-run blast off Grant Balfour in the eighth launched Toronto’s comeback from a 4-0 deficit. Jose Reyes finished with two hits for the Blue Jays, who lost for just the fifth time in their past 16 games but remained four games behind Kansas City for the second wild card in the American League.

Kevin Kiermaier’s groundout and Zobrist’s 10th homer of the season in the third staked Tampa Bay to a two-run lead, while Forsythe’s groundout and Ryan Hanigan’s bloop single one inning later pushed the advantage to 4-0. Tampa Bay starter Chris Archer set down 10 in a row until Encarnacion hit his second homer in two days and 32nd of the year leading off the seventh.

Escobar hit a one-out homer in the eighth to put the Rays ahead 5-1, but Balfour surrendered back-to-back singles to Reyes and Jose Bautista with one out in the frame before Lind drilled his sixth homer of the season - and second in two days - to make it 5-4. McGee retired the first two hitters in the ninth before Mayberry Jr. lined a 1-2 pitch just over the wall in left to even the score.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Archer gave up one run on three hits with nine strikeouts in seven innings, while Toronto starter Mark Buehrle surrendered four runs on nine hits in six frames. … Tampa Bay scored six runs for the first time since plating seven against Boston on Aug. 30 and homered in its seventh consecutive contest, matching a season high. … Encarnacion has homered four times in his first 12 games this month.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Tampa Bay   Toronto
Chris Archer Player Mark Buehrle
No Decision W/L No Decision
7.0 IP 6.0
9 Strikeouts 1
3 Hits 9
1.29 ERA 6.00
Hitting
Tampa Bay   Toronto
Yunel Escobar Player Jose Reyes
3 Hits 2
1 RBI 0
1 HR 0
7 TB 2
.750 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Tampa Bay 14 2 25 .333 17 2 6 2 2 0
Toronto 7 3 16 .194 9 12 5 3 0 0