Caminero’s ninth inning grand slam leads Rays

TORONTO – Junior Caminero’s ninth inning expansive slam bounced disconnected the scoreboard connected the 3rd platform of Rogers Centre to manus the Tampa Bay Rays a 11-9 triumph implicit the Toronto Blue Jays connected Tuesday.

Chandler Simpson’s RBI azygous earlier successful the ninth tied the crippled 7-7 for Tampa Bay (19-22) and helped acceptable the signifier for Caminero’s archetypal expansive slam successful Major League Baseball.

Brandon Lowe had a two-run azygous and Jonathan Aranda smashed a two-run homer arsenic the Rays jumped retired to a 4-0 pb successful the third. Danny Jansen added a location tally successful the seventh and Kameron Misner scored successful the sixth erstwhile the Blue Jays caught Taylor Walls stealing but archetypal baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. dropped the ball.

Shane Baz struck retired six implicit 4 2/3 innings but allowed 3 runs connected 4 hits and 2 walks. Manuel Rodriguez, Garrett Cleavinger, Edwin Uceta (3-1), Pete Fairbanks and Mason Montgomery came connected successful relief.

Daulton Varsho’s three-run blast successful the eighth inning, his 2nd location tally of the night, gave Toronto (20-21) a 7-6 lead. Varsho besides had a solo changeable successful the 4th arsenic the Blue Jays had their four-game triumph streak snapped.

Bo Bichette’s two-run homer successful the 3rd hardly made it implicit the partition but kept the Blue Jays successful the game. Ernie Clement’s solo changeable to pb disconnected the seventh was his archetypal location tally of the season.

Bichette and Guerrero had back-to-back RBI doubles successful the bottommost of the ninth to chopped Tampa Bay’s pb to 2 runs but Toronto could not implicit the comeback.

Jose Berrios gave up six runs implicit 5 1/3 innings, striking retired 4 but giving up 5 hits and 3 walks successful a nary decision. Mason Fluharty, Chad Green, Jeff Hoffman and Braydon Fisher came retired of the Blue Jays bullpen.

Hoffman (3-2) took the nonaccomplishment aft giving up the expansive slam to Caminero.

TAKEAWAYS

Rays: Jansen was cheered by fans astatine Rogers Centre erstwhile Tampa’s lineup was announced and again with each astatine bat. He spent his archetypal six years successful Major League Baseball with Toronto earlier the Blue Jays traded him to the Boston Red Sox midway done past season. The assemblage was comparatively quiescent arsenic helium rounded the bases pursuing his location tally successful the seventh.

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Blue Jays: Varsho missed the archetypal 28 games of Toronto’s play arsenic helium recovered from enarthrosis country successful September. Although he’s hitting conscionable .222 successful his 10 games this season, helium has 5 location runs and has driven successful 11 runs.

KEY MOMENT

Initially a ground-rule double, the umpires sent Bichette home, calling his deed to heavy near a homer. Although the Rays asked for a video challenge, the telephone connected the tract stood.

KEY STAT

Jansen’s location tally was the archetypal deed Fluharty had ever fixed up to a right-handed hitter.

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Chris Bassitt (3-2) volition instrumentality the mound for Toronto successful the 2nd crippled of its bid with Tampa Bay. The Rays volition antagonistic with Ryan Pepiot (2-4).

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published May 13, 2025.

Note to readers:This is simply a corrected mentation of an earlier story. Daulton Varsho’s batting mean is .222, not .229 arsenic antecedently stated.