Blue Jays end Rays perfect start to season with 6-3 win

TORONTO, April 15 (BNA): The Tampa Bay Rays’ perfect start to the season ended with a 6-3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday as the St. Louis Maroons’ 1884 record remained out of contention. It arrives.


The Rays are in Toronto 13-0 after tying the modern-era record of the 1982 Atlanta Braves and 1987 Milwaukee Brewers for most consecutive wins to start a season and are looking to match the Maroons’ 20-0 mark set 139 years ago in what was then the Union Association Reuters reported.


But Tampa’s record-chasing was undone in a dreaded fifth inning that saw the Blue Jays open up a tight contest 2-1 scoring four runs with plenty of Tampa Bay damage.


With the bases loaded, reliever Colin Bucci came up to starter Drew Rasmussen and promptly walked in a pair of runs.


Then what should have been a double play in the first inning turned into another two runs in Toronto when Wanderer Franco’s pitch to Brandon Lowe blew off the second baseman’s glove rolling into right field and put the Rays in a 6-1 hole they couldn’t get out of.


“Everything just didn’t go our way,” Rays coach Kevin Cash told reporters. “Not much went our way today.


“But I really like what I just watched for two weeks.


“You’re talking about a team from any year, 1884 doing a great job.”


The Rays were playing off the back foot from the start with Rasmussen hitting a solo home run to Jays leadoff man George Springer. Bo Bichette, who had five hits on the night, brought up another run on a ground-rule double in the second.

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Tampa would get on the scoreboard on fourth down when Luke Raley singled to drain center on Lowe before fifth inning disaster.


The Rays would make it interesting with Josh Lowe and Christian Bethancourt hitting back-to-back singles in the seventh, but they couldn’t keep the rally on their way to a first down.


“The loss is still bad,” Rasmussen said. “It’s just one of those things that we’ve lost.


“It’s a bit frustrating but the streak was amazing to get off to such a good start.”


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