Travis has 4 hits, Blue Jays beat Rays 7-5

Devon Travis had a career-high four hits, including the go-ahead single in the seventh inning, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-5 on Monday night.

Edwin Encarnacion hit his 299th career home run as the Blue Jays snapped a three-game losing streak against the Rays.

Encarnacion and Jose Bautista both had three RBIs as Toronto scored more than four runs for the first time since a 9-1 win over Baltimore on July 30.

Joaquin Benoit (2-1) worked one inning for the win. Roberto Osuna gave up Logan Forsythe’s solo homer in the ninth but finished for his 25th save.

Rays left-hander Xavier Cedeno (3-4) was replaced after walking the first two batters of the seventh. Dylan Floro came on and walked pinch-hitter Russell Martin to load the bases but got pinch-hitter Justin Smoak to bounce back to the mound, with Michael Saunders forced at home. Saunders took out catcher Bobby Wilson as he slid in, preventing what might have been an inning-ending double play. Travis followed with an RBI single and Bautista hit a two-run double.

Rays right-hander Jake Odorizzi came in riding a streak of 20 2/3 scoreless innings but couldn’t extend it. Travis tripled on Odorizzi’s second pitch of the game and scored when Bautista followed with a first-pitch sacrifice fly.

Encarnacion doubled the lead with a two-out homer, his 31st. It was Toronto’s 17th straight solo home run, the longest streak since the Giants hit 21 in 2011.

Mikie Mahtook and Steve Souza Jr. tied it with RBI doubles in the fourth but the Blue Jays regained the lead on Encarnacion’s two-out, two-run single in the bottom half.

Tampa Bay tied it 4-all and chased knuckleballer R.A. Dickey on Brad Miller’s two-run double in the fifth. Miller has at least one RBI in six straight games.

This story was originally published August 8, 2016 at 11:03 PM with the headline "Travis has 4 hits, Blue Jays beat Rays 7-5."