Avisail Garcias insidethepark home run helps Tampa Bay beat the Blue Jays in Florida
Austin Meadows homered for the third straight game and five Tampa Bay Rays pitchers combined to throw a six-hitter and beat the struggling Toronto Blue Jays 3-1.
The second-place Rays won for the fourth straight time, improving to a MLB season-best 13 games over .500 before an announced crowd of just 5,786, the smallest ever for a Rays home game at Tropicana Field.
The Blue Jays have dropped six of their past seven games and fell to 0-8-1 in their series against Tampa Bay, dating to August 2017.
Meadows hit his 12th homer of the season, a solo shot to right field off reliever Thomas Pannone in the seventh inning.
Former Tiger Avisail Garcia had an inside-the-park homer off Clayton Richard (0-1) in the third and also scored on a first-inning sacrifice fly.