Carl Crawford's two-run homer Sunday led the Tampa Bay Rays to a 3-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays and a three-game sweep. The Rays won 14 of 18 against the Blue Jays this season. Crawford's homer, his 14th, gave Tampa Bay a 2-0 lead with no outs in the bottom of the first. Willy Aybar hit a solo homer, Pat Burrell had three hits and Ben Zobrist and B.J.

Greg Zaun's pinch-hit grand slam in the eighth inning Sunday carried the Tampa Bay Rays past the Toronto Blue Jays 5-2. Carl Crawford doubled in the other run for Tampa Bay, which ended a four-game losing streak. Dan Wheeler (4-3) pitched 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief to record the win. Marco Scutaro

Carl Crawford and Evan Longoria each had two RBI Saturday to help the Tampa Bay Rays post an 8-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Crawford doubled twice, scored three times and walked, while Longoria extended his hitting streak to eight games with two hits for the Rays, who ended a five-game losing streak. Tampa Bay's Scott Kazmir (7-7) gave up three runs on five hits with seven strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings.

Carlos Pena gave Tampa Bay the lead with the first of his team's four homers Wednesday, powering the Rays past Boston 6-4. Boston dropped 2 ½ games behind New York for the lead in the American League East and will open a four-game series in Yankee Stadium Thursday. Pena's homer gave the Rays a 2-1 lead in the second and Carl Crawford added a two-run blast one inning later.

Carl Crawford drove in three runs and Jason Bartlett knocked in a pair Monday in Tampa Bay's 10-4 victory over Kansas City. Crawford and Bartlett both finished with three hits, with Bartlett also getting a walk but coming up a homer short of the cycle. Willy Aybar homered twice and Carlos Pena hit a two-run single as the Rays won for the fourth time in their last six games and pulled within 5 1/2 games of the first-place New York Yankees in the American League East.