Toronto avenged their opening game loss to the Rays on Friday by beating Tampa 8-5 on Saturday night.
On a night when not even the announcers expected an audience ("We have some hard-core baseball fans watching us tonight with a rather important hockey game going on in Toronto right now", Sportsnet announcer Jamie Campbell said), Toronto jumped out to a 6-1 lead by the 2nd inning, thanks in large part to Frank Thomas' first homerun as a Jay, a grand slam to boot.
Tampa clawed their way back to 7-5 by the 4th, but Toronto held on, and added one more in the 9th to seal the win.
Tomo Ohka was average in 4 1/3 innings pitched, giving up 5 runs on 6 hits. Shaun Marcum was lights out, striking out 5 in 2 1/3 innings, not allowing a hit in that time.
The rubber match goes on Sunday, with Roy Halladay getting his second start of the year.
WP: Shaun Marcum (1-0)
LP: Casey Fossum (0-1)
SV: B.J. Ryan (2)
Toronto (2-2) Tampa Bay (2-2)
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