{"id":149994,"date":"2025-09-17T08:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/149994\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:23:13","slug":"blue-jays-beat-fading-rays-6-5-for-6th-straight-win-close-in-on-al-east-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/149994\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays beat fading Rays 6-5 for 6th straight win, close in on AL East title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto built a 4-0 lead against Ryan Pepiot (11-11) on Addison Barger\u2019s RBI single in the first and a three-run second that included Springer\u2019s two-run single and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.\u2019s RBI single.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Lowe ended an eight-pitch at-bat against Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos in the third with a three-run homer after a video review ruled that while a fan reached over the right-field wall and interfered with Lukes, the drive would have been a home run anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Lukes was given a solo homer against Joey Gerber in the fourth on a replay review after initially being awarded a double on a drive that hit Lowe\u2019s glove and then the hand of a fan behind the right-field fence.<\/p>\n<p>Loperfido homered in the fifth for a 6-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay closed on RBI singles by Tristan Gray in the eighth and Brandon Lowe in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Lauer (9-2) pitched 1 1\/3 scoreless innings. <\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman\u2019s strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Toronto is 36-13 when hitting multiple home runs.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays RHP Kevin Gausman (10-10, 3.44 ERA) and Rays LHP Ian Seymour (3-2, 3.16 ERA) start Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kristie Ackert, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto built a 4-0 lead against Ryan Pepiot (11-11) on Addison Barger\u2019s RBI single in the first and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-149994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}