Streaking: The Rays score seven runs in the 11th to win their 11th game in a row.
Francisco Mejía hit a tiebreaking, two-run single during a sevenrun burst in the 11th inning and the visiting Tampa Bay Rays won their 11th straight game, outlasting the Toronto Blue Jays 14-8 on Monday in Dunedin, Fla.
Tampa Bay moved within one win of the team record for consecutive victories. In 2004, playing as the Devil Rays, they won 12 in a row.
After both teams scored twice in the 10th to make it 7-all, the Rays erupted.
Mejía’s hit came off Joel Payamps with the bases loaded. Randy Arozarena doubled home a run, Austin Meadows had an RBI grounder, Manuel Margot knocked in two with a triple and Mike Brosseau added an RBI single against Tim Mayza.
Mejía had a 12th-inning grand slam in the Rays’ 9-7 win over Toronto on Friday night.
A day after the Rays drew five walks during a four-run rally in the ninth to win 6-4, Tampa Bay batters walked seven times.
Joey Wendle hit a grand slam off opener Trent Thornton as Tampa Bay took a 5-0 lead in the first.
The Rays wound up with a fourgame sweep and took over sole possession of first place in the AL East.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit two of Toronto’s five home runs. The Blue Jays lost their sixth in a row.
Tampa Bay scored twice in the 10th, but Marcus Semien tied it with a two-run homer.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Teoscar Hernández also homered for the Blue Jays, who played their final game at TD Ballpark. Toronto dropped seven of 10 on the final homestand and finished 10-11 at its spring training facility.
The Blue Jays will now relocate to Buffalo, New York, as COVID-19 restrictions in Canada prevent them from playing in Toronto.
Ross Stripling entered in the second and gave up two hits in seven scoreless innings for the Blue Jays. BREWERS 5, PADRES 3 » Milwaukee closer Josh Hader stopped San Diego’s rally in the ninth inning and the Padres’ nine-game winning streak came to an end.
Fresh off sweeping a nine-game homestand, the Padres trailed 5-0 going into the ninth.
Tommy Pham hit a two-run homer off Angel Perdomo in the ninth. Hader relieved with a runner on first and no outs, and gave up Eric Hosmer’s RBI double with one out and then a walk.
Hader settled down to retire Austin Nola on a popup and HaSeong Kim on a lineout for his 11th save of the season.
Brandon Woodruff gave up three hits over seven innings against a Padres team that had won 12 of 13. He struck out eight and walked none.
Manny Pina hit a two-run homer in the second off Blake Snell.
Avisail Garcia led off the fourth with a homer and Kolten Wong’s two-out, two-run single later in the inning finished Snell.
WHITE SOX 5, CARDINALS 1 » Chicago manager Tony La Russa wound up a winner in his first game against the team that ensured his Hall of Fame induction as the White Sox defeated visiting St. Louis behind Lance Lynn’s arm and Andrew Vaughn’s bat.
The victory ended a three-game skid for the AL Central leaders, who were swept by the New York Yankees after winning 10 of 13. The NL Central-leading Cardinals dropped their second straight.
Lynn (5-1) held the Cardinals hitless for 5 1/3 innings. Vaughn hit a go-ahead, two-run homer off Kwang Hyun Kim in the sixth.
After winning a World Series in Oakland, La Russa guided the Cardinals to two World Series championships, three pennants and nine postseason appearances from 19962011. He left the team as its all-time leader in wins and games managed. ROCKIES 3, METS 2 » Austin Gomber pitched two-hit ball through eight innings, Ryan McMahon and Elias Díaz hit second-inning home runs off David Peterson and Colorado beat New York for just its third win in 20 road games this season.