TORONTO _ Talk about flipping the script.
A day after blowing a seven-run lead late and losing in extra innings, the Rays on Sunday came back from a seven-run deficit late and beat the Blue Jays 10-9.
The Rays scored in the final five innings to do so, tying at 9 in the eighth then taking the lead in the ninth. Walks by Austin Meadows and Matt Duffy around a Nate Lowe singled loaded the bases and a slow bouncer by Joey Wendle to second got the run home.
The win was just the Rays' fourth in their last 12 games, 10th in 22 and 19th in 43 as they held their ground at 60-48, just behind the AL wild-card leaders, pending later action by the Red Sox and A's.
It was part of a busy day, as they made a still-being-finalized deal to acquire Blue Jays infielder/outfielder Eric Sogard, who was scratched from the lineup shortly before first pitch, and traded away reliever Ian Gibaut, who went to Texas for a player to be named.
Also, outfielder Tommy Pham left the game in the seventh inning due to a right hand sprain, with x-rays negative. He was thrown out at second in the top of the inning trying to stretch a single.
After the frustrating and disappointing loss on Saturday, the Rays went into play Sunday counting on a good start from Yonny Chirinos to help them recover but didn't get it.
Chirinos lasted only into the fifth, allowing a career high seven runs on eight hits and three walks. Plus, he threw a wild pitch that scored a run and balked that set up two others.
The Rays were down 4-0 after three innings and 8-1 after five then battled back to even.
They got three in the fifth, starting with Ji-Man Choi and Pham singling, then Travis d'Arnaud delivering a two-out two-run double, that finally chased Aaron Sanchez, who looked much better than a pitcher who was winless since April and had 14 losses on the season.
D'Arnaud's hit gave him 23 RBIs in July, the most by any Rays player in any month since Brad Miller had 26, and Evan Longoria 25, in August 2016.
Singles by Nate Lowe and Matt Duffy got d'Arnaud home and the Rays back to 8-4.
They got two more in the seventh, with Willy Adames walking and Choi hitting his first homer in more than a month, and 10th overall.
Then they got three, and even in the eighth. Joey Wendle singled with one out then Guillermo Heredia, back in the majors and the lineup due to Kevin Kiermaier's injury, hit a two-run homer, his first extra-base hit off a righty this season, albeit in limited opportunity.
Then Adames made it back-to-back homers off David Phelps. Adames, slumping otherwise, hit a three-run homer on Saturday.
The Rays got off to a dubious start, as for the first time in franchise history their first six batters in a game struck out. The previous record had been five, done three times, most recently two years ago, by the Yankees Masahiro Tanaka on July 28, 2017.
Plus they didn't get a baserunner until Choi singled to lead off the fourth, extending from Saturday their run of consecutive batters retired to 30 � 10 straight innings.
It also was the first time in the Rays' 22-season history they scored and allowed at least nine runs in back to back games.
The Rays left after the game for Boston, where they open a three-game series with the Red Sox on Tuesday.
