(Sports Network) - David Price tries to become the American Leagues first eight-game winner this evening, when the Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays play the rubber match of their three-game series at Rogers Centre.
Replicas White Sox Jersey . Price, the first overall pick in the 2007 draft, enters tonights tilt tied with New Yorks Andy Pettitte and Bostons Clay Buchholz for the AL lead in wins. The first overall pick of the 2007 draft was denied his eighth win in his last trip to the hill Friday against Chicago, as he had a four-start win streak stopped and fell to 7-2 after giving up three runs and four hits in seven innings. The 24-year-old left-hander, who has pitched to a 2.57 earned run average this season, beat the Jays with a four-hit shutout back on April 25 and is 3-0 with a 2.92 ERA in four starts against them . Toronto will counter with a competent hurler of its own in righty Shaun Marcum, who is 5-1 with a 2.59 ERA. Marcum won his fourth straight start and fifth consecutive decision Friday against Baltimore, as he held the Orioles to six hits over six scoreless innings to improve to 5-1 while lowering his ERA to 2.59. Marcum, who has pitched to a 1.76 ERA in his last seven starts, is 2-0 lifetime against the Rays with a 0.75 ERA in four games (three starts). The Rays evened this series at a game apiece on Tuesday, as Sean Rodriguez hit a three-run double in the top of the ninth to help Tampa Bay rally from a five-run deficit to eke out a 7-6 win. Carl Crawford scored twice and drove in a run for the Rays, who lost 3-2 in the series opener on Monday. Reid Brignac and Ben Zobrist each knocked in a run and scored once for the victors. Grant Balfour (1-1) tossed 1 1/3 scoreless innings of relief to pick up the victory. Rafael Soriano recorded his 15th save of the season despite giving up a run in the ninth. We always play nine innings hard, said Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon, who was ejected in the ninth. It was great at-bats until the very end. Im really proud of our guys. It was a big win. John Buck and Fred Lewis each homered for the Blue Jays, who had a four-game winning streak stopped. Lewis went 3-for-5 and finished a triple shy of the cycle, while Adam Lind knocked in two runs in defeat. Kevin Gregg (0-2) allowed four runs on one hit while recording just two outs in the ninth. He suffered his third blown save of the season. Tampa Bay took two of three meetings with Toronto from April 23-25 and has won 17 of the 23 most recent contests in this series.
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Aaron Rowand Jersey. An inning later, Alexei Ramirez singled, stole second and came around to score on a bloop hit off the bat of Juan Pierre. After seeing their three-run edge chopped to one, the Twins came through again with three runs in the fifth. Denard Span worked a walk in front of Orlando Hudsons single to right. Joe Mauer then reached first when Konerko didnt handle his grounder, loading the bases with nobody out. Cuddyers sacrifice fly scored Span, but A.J. Pierzynski came up to catch Alex Rios throw and fired to third in time to nab Hudson, who was trying to tag and advance on the fly out. Despite the double play, the Twins still put more runs on the board when Young lined a two-run homer just over the wall in left for a 6-2 edge. Chicago again responded, using its power to push across three runs in the home sixth. Back-to-back shots from Pierzynski and Ramirez started the frame with Brent Morel contributing a double to right. He got into a rundown on Pierres soft grounder, giving Pierre time to take second then the speedster used his wheels to swipe third. He scored on Rios force out slow roller, cutting the margin to 6-5. The Twins added a pair of insurance runs in the ninth on Cuddyers run-scoring single and Matt Tolberts sacrifice fly. Game Notes Pierre stole his 57th and 58th bases of the season...Konerkos homer was his 37th of the campaign, while Ramirez hit his 17th and Pierzynski his eighth...Young swatted his 18th home run of the season for the Twins....Minnesota holds a 13-5 edge in the season series, including seven of the nine games played in Chicago...The Twins are major-league best 42-16 since the All-Star break...Pavano improved to 3-1 against the White Sox this season. ' ' '
