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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
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

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
Hitting
Tampa Bay   Toronto
Matt Joyce Player Jose Bautista
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 1
0 HR 0
2 TB 2
.667 Avg .667
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