Jays win second comeback win in extra innings this week as Johnny Mac the hero with walk off home run.

Tampa Rays v Jays. Game one of three.

Important game for Jays as the Rays have been burning up the division for the last two weeks. Tampa had very late arrival in to Toronto this morning at 3.30a.m. as Longoria forgets his passport? Jays do not want to fall to the bottom as Boston is only one game behind them now.

Game report is short tonight, this was extra innings with game not finishing until 11.00pm and then long drive in the rain. Just the highlights in this report.

Jays fell behind for most of the game in fact three times 1-0, 2-1 and 4-2, but kept coming back each time and then winning in dramatic style bottom of the 11th with walk off home run by Johnny Mac scoring Woodward who was pinch running for Rivera. Drama in Rivera himself who finally gets a single in the bottom of the eleventh to set table for dramatic finish and Jays win 6-4.

Other highlights: Jose Bautista an amazing night, double, triple and home run and two walks whilst going for the cycle. Rays pitchers gave him nothing to hit in those situations and Jose selflessly took the bases. This guy really is the heart of the current team in so many ways. Lind hitting behind Jose also had a good night with two doubles.
Jo-Jo Reyes hung in there into the seventh inning which at one stage looked very unlikely. Camp and Rauch pitched very well once again.

Downside once again Jays hitters with runners in scoring position, 3-12 tonight, men on second and nobody out, bases loaded and unable to score.
The other downer was the injury to Nix who was taken out at second by Rodriguez breaking up a double play. Nix was really hurting before leaving the game in the second. The upside was Johnny Mac substituting for Nix and making a couple of highlight reel saves as well as his final at bat hitting that fast ball into the Jays bullpen. Rivera had a rough night but for me it was heartening to see Jays fans rooting for him to get a hit. Crowd also gave him a nice ovation when he comes through in the eleventh.
However, Snider suffered tonight hitting in front of Rivera, Rays pitchers were not giving him anything to hit so that they could get to Rivera behind him.
Seven of the nine hits for Jays were from heart of the order, 3,4 and 5 hitters. Seven of the hits were extra base hits including the two home runs by Bautista and Johnny Mac.

Not so good: Patterson tonight with his at bats. Rivera getting his average down to .095 before coming through in the eleventh with a single back up the middle. Juan however did draw two walks and is not hacking away at every pitch.
Encarnacion had a good night with his bat but missed one liner at third. No error given but it was off his glove and catchable. Arencibia also wanted to throw one ball to 3B and Edwin was nowhere to be seen covering the bag on a stolen base. Arencibia himself not very good at bats with runners in scoring position leaving four on base.
Jason Frasor pitched the game to a standstill with his oh so slow performance. Every pitch is like watching paint dry.

Bottom line jays get a much needed win and an extra innings game at home is always good to win to give impetus for the rest of the series this weekend.
Tomorrow Morrow returns, that should be interesting as Jaysa wqould love series win and some distance between Rays and themselves as Jays head to hot hitting Texas next wek.