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 TORONTO (AP) - As he watched a five-run lead slip away in the ninth inning, Tampa Bay outfielder Carl Crawford had a familiar thought: Here we go again. Matt Stairs scored the winning run on a bases-loaded walk and the Toronto Blue Jays put up six runs in the ninth to beat the Devil Rays 12-11 on Tuesday night.
"In the back of your mind, you've been going through this for six years, naturally you're going to think, 'Is this going to happen again?'" Crawford said. "You don't want to think that, but you've been through it so much you naturally think about it a little bit."
With Tampa Bay leading 11-6, Chad Orvella walked Aaron Hill to lead off the ninth, then gave up consecutive RBI doubles to Adam Lind and Jason Phillips to make it 11-8. Shawn Camp came in and promptly walked Howie Clark. After getting Alex Rios to groundout, Vernon Wells laced a two-run double to left that scored Phillips and Rios and made it 11-10.
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