Toronto 6, Tampa Bay 5
When: 7:10 PM ET, Friday, April 23, 2010
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Dan Bellino, 1B -
Jerry Layne, 2B -
Mike Winters, 3B -
Hunter Wendelstedt
Attendance:
22056
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Aaron Hill homered in his return to the lineup and the Toronto Blue Jays held off the Tampa Bay Rays for a 6-5 victory on Friday.
Brett Cecil (1-0), making his first start of the season, picked up the win in going 6 2/3 innings and allowing four runs on six hits with eight strikeouts.
Kevin Gregg picked up the save, striking out Ben Zobrist with a runner on second to end the game.
The Blue Jays scored four times in the first inning. Vernon Wells, Jose Bautista and Alex Gonzalez had run-scoring hits in the frame off Tampa Bay starter Matt Garza (3-1).
Hill, who hadn't played since April 8 because of a hamstring injury, homered to give the Blue Jays a 6-1 lead in the sixth inning before the Rays closed the gap to 6-2 on an RBI-double by Zobrist in the bottom half. Kapler then made it 6-4 with a two-run homer in the seventh.
The Rays cut it to 6-5 in the eighth following a run-scoring single by B.J. Upton.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Toronto |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Brett Cecil
|
Player |
Matt Garza
|
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
|
6.2 |
IP |
5.0 |
|
8 |
Strikeouts |
6 |
|
6 |
Hits |
8 |
|
5.40 |
ERA |
9.00 |
Hitting
| Toronto |
|
Tampa Bay |
|
Jose Bautista
| Player |
Willy Aybar |
|
3 |
Hits |
2 |
|
1 |
RBI |
1 |
|
0 |
HR |
1 |
|
6 |
TB |
5 |
|
.600 |
Avg |
.667 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Toronto
|
11 |
1 |
20 |
.289 |
27 |
12 |
6 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
| Tampa Bay
|
9 |
2 |
17 |
.250 |
14 |
10 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
