{"id":646403,"date":"2026-08-20T17:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/646403\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:06:36","slug":"rays-beat-the-blue-jays-7-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/646403\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays beat the Blue Jays 7-6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/author\/zak-gilbert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ZAK GILBERT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 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<p>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\u2019s last 12 batters, and Baker got the last three outs for his major league-leading 36th save.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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\u2019t leave the infield.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>D\u00edaz, Chandler Simpson and Taylor Walls each extended hitting streaks to 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto\u2019s Brett Batemen left following his third-inning groundout with right hamstring tightness.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>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<p>___<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0\u00a0ZAK GILBERT ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Yandy D\u00edaz hit a two-run homer, Drew Rasmussen earned his sixth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[1251,6725,5,189,4,10100,1247,6726,43,187,540,92,6727,5168,5167],"class_list":["post-646403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-associated-press","tag-fl","tag-hockey","tag-lightning","tag-nhl","tag-on-air-ticker-article","tag-orlando","tag-professional-baseball","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaylightning"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117128933116776342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}