TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Jonathan Aranda hit a home run and drove in three, Richie Palacios had three hits and three RBIs, and the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-5 on Monday night, their 15th win in their last 17 games.<\/p>\n
Chandler Simpson had three hits, stole two bases and scored three runs as the Rays improved their AL-best record when scoring four runs or more to 21-4. Tampa Bay has won 10 straight and 20 of 21 when scoring four or more.<\/p>\n
Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez hit two home runs for the Blue Jays, the first multihomer game of his career. Gim\u00e9nez hit a three-run drive off Drew Rasmussen in the second and added a two-run shot off Ian Seymour in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Gim\u00e9nez\u2019s homers ended Tampa Bay\u2019s franchise-record streak of allowing three earned runs or fewer at 16 games.<\/p>\n
Rasmussen (3-1) allowed three runs and four hits in six innings.<\/p>\n
Hunter Bigge got five outs and Bryan Baker finished for his 11th save in 13 chances.<\/p>\n
Aranda went 2 for 3 with a sacrifice fly and was hit by a pitch.<\/p>\n
After Aranda opened the scoring with his sacrifice fly off Kevin Gausman in the first inning, Palacios made it 3-0 with a two-out, two-run single.<\/p>\n
Taylor Walls hit an RBI triple in the second and Aranda added an RBI hit.<\/p>\n
Simpson stole third and scored on a throwing error by catcher Brandon Valenzuela in the fourth. Aranda made it 7-3 with a leadoff homer in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Gausman (2-3) allowed season-highs of 10 hits and seven runs (six earned), in 4 2\/3 innings. The right-hander struck out five, reaching 2,000 for his career by fanning Hunter Feduccia to begin the fourth.<\/p>\n
Rays LHP Shane McClanahan (4-2, 2.60 ERA) is scheduled to start on Tuesday against Blue Jays LHP Patrick Corbin (1-1, 3.60).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Jonathan Aranda hit a home run and drove in three, Richie Palacios had three hits…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3375,16776,18037,17480,18034,17489,2700,1335,1336,3367,1330,1332,18039,18033,18038,18035,18036,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-41438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-andres-gimenez","9":"tag-brandon-valenzuela","10":"tag-bryan-baker","11":"tag-drew-rasmussen","12":"tag-ian-seymour","13":"tag-jonathan-aranda","14":"tag-kevin-gausman","15":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","16":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","17":"tag-patrick-corbin","18":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","19":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","20":"tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","21":"tag-rays-blue-jays-score","22":"tag-richie-palacios","23":"tag-shane-mcclanahan","24":"tag-taylor-walls","25":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}