Brandon Lowe and Curtis Mead homered, Drew Rasmussen pitched six scoreless innings in a four-hitter and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 on Friday night for only their third three-game winning streak this season.

Brandon Lowe and Curtis Mead homered for the second straight game and Drew Rasmussen tossed six scoreless innings, lifting the host Tampa Bay Rays to a 3-1 series-opening victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday.

The Toronto Blue Jays hosted the Tampa Bay Rays in a series just 10 days ago, and they rolled into the meeting fresh off a sweep of the first-place Seattle Mariners. The Rays wound up winning two of three anyway.

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Tropicana Field is hard on the Blue Jays’ bats, too. During the previous five years, Toronto hit just .234 at Tampa Bay, with a .385 slugging percentage. At every other park, those marks were .256 and .423.

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