ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) Yandy D\u00edaz hit a two-run homer, Drew Rasmussen earned his sixth consecutive win and Bryan Baker converted his 25th straight save opportunity to lead the Tampa Bay Rays to a 7-6 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The Rays led 7-1 before Toronto scored four runs in the fifth and another in the sixth to make it a one-run game. But, the Rays\u2019 bullpen shut down Toronto’s last 12 batters, and Baker got the last three outs for his major league-leading 36th save.<\/p>\n
McAdoo, who was stranded at second base in the ninth, stole his first career base and led the Blue Jays with a career-high three hits. Alejandro Kirk homered and drove in two runs for Toronto.<\/p>\n
Rasmussen (13-5) retired his first eight batters before McAdoo legged out an infield single in the third. Kirk\u2019s solo homer in the fourth broke up the shutout.<\/p>\n
Rasmussen is the fifth pitcher in Rays history to win six straight starts and the first since Blake Snell won a franchise-best nine in a row in 2018.<\/p>\n
Toronto starter Max Scherzer (1-6) struggled in the fourth, when the Rays sent nine batters to the plate. The 42-year-old right-hander allowed five runs in the inning on three hits as the small-ball Rays scored three times on balls that didn’t leave the infield.<\/p>\n
D\u00edaz got Tampa Bay on the board with his two-run shot, his 19th this season, in the bottom of the first.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay capitalized on a rough outing by Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez, who struggled to track two fly balls against the Tropicana Field roof. Junior Caminero\u2019s first-inning fly bounced in front of S\u00e1nchez for a ground-rule double. In the fourth, Richie Palacios\u2019 high fly eluded S\u00e1nchez and ended up as a two-run double.<\/p>\n
D\u00edaz, Chandler Simpson and Taylor Walls each extended hitting streaks to 10 games.<\/p>\n
Toronto\u2019s Brett Batemen left following his third-inning groundout with right hamstring tightness.<\/p>\n
Blue Jays RHP Shane Bieber (4-2, 4.99 ERA) faces Rays LHP Ian Seymour (9-3, 4.11) in the series finale Thursday.<\/p>\n
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