ST. Cesc Fabregas Chelsea Jersey . PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Ricky Romero made sure the Toronto Blue Jays finally had some success against David Price. Romero allowed one hit over eight innings and Jose Bautista hit his 32nd homer of the season Tuesday as the Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays and their all-star pitcher 3-1. "Its fun pitching against him," Romero said. "Were good friends. We have talked about it. It was definitely fun going out there to battle against him and Im happy we came out in front." Romero (9-9), who didnt allow a hit until Desmond Jennings started the sixth with a homer, struck out seven and walked four over eight innings. Jon Rauch allowed two-out singles in the ninth to Casey Kotchman and B.J. Upton before retiring Matt Joyce on a fly to left on a 3-0 pitch for his 10th save. Price (9-10), who entered with eight wins and a no-decision in nine career starts against Toronto, gave up three runs and five hits in 6 2-3 inning. The Rays have scored once while Price has been on the mound during his last three starts. "Somebodys going to go through that every year," Price said. "These guys are trying. Thats part of it." Tampa Bay was one-hit by Seattles Michael Pineda in a 3-2 loss to the Mariners last Saturday. The Rays have lost 11 of 17. Toronto, which is three games over .500 (56-53) for the first time since April 8, also got a homer from Yunel Escobar. Blue Jays manager John Farrell said there was no thought given to having Romero going out for the ninth after throwing 109 pitches. Bautista put the Blue Jays ahead 1-0 on his first homer in 15 games -- snapping a drought of 46 at-bats without one -- on a fourth-inning shot off Price. The Toronto slugger is 9-for-22 with four homers against the Rays left-hander. "It was good to see Jose get a 2-0 fastball and do what hes very much capable of doing," Farrell said. Tampa Bay had reliever J.P. Howell intentionally walked Bautista with no one on base and two outs in the eighth. Howell then retired Adam Lind on a grounder. Escobar made it 2-0 on a homer in the sixth. Jennings, hitless in his previous 13 at-bats, got the Rays to 2-1 on his shot in the bottom of the inning. Rajai Davis RBI double, which ended Prices night, extended the Blue Jays advantage to 3-1 in the seventh. Tampa Bay loaded the bases -- on two walks and a hit batter -- in the second, but didnt score when Romero struck out Joyce and Kelly Shoppach before getting an inning-ending grounder from Sean Rodriguez. "He had a tough first couple innings," Farrell said. "He created a jam in the second that he found a way to pitch out of it. He used his curveball really effectively against Joyce, against Shoppach to get a couple key strikeouts. He didnt let the early frustration linger too long." The Rays have loaded the bases 11 times this season with no outs, and failed to score a run in six of those opportunities. "To get the bases loaded early ... thats a great chance for us to get on top," Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said. "Romero, if you dont get him early, and he gets out of a couple of jams, or a jam, he normally sets in, which he did again. We have to do better. Bases loaded, weve been bad at that play and weve got to get better." NOTES: Tampa Bay executive vice-president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman was at the ballpark, three days after having an appendectomy. ... Farrell said RHP Jesse Litsch could remain in the bullpen the final two months of the season to help decide where he is best suited to pitch. ... Tampa Bay C John Jaso (right oblique strain) could resume swinging a bat by the end of the week. Mohamed Salah Jersey . -- Ernie Els hardly ever catches a break at the Match Play Championship. Mark Schwarzer Chelsea Jersey . The deal, filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, calls for the NCAA to toughen return-to-play rules for players who receive head blows and create a $70 million fund to pay for thousands of current and former athletes to undergo testing to determine whether they suffered brain trauma while playing football and other contact sports. ST. LOUIS -- Albert Pujols and the St. Louis Cardinals let one get away. In a messy ninth inning, Pujols failed to handle a cutoff throw after Jason Motte faltered for the first time this October, aiding the Texas Rangers two-run rally for a 2-1 victory Thursday night that evened the World Series at a game apiece. For the first time since early August, there were no chants of "Happy Flight, Happy Flight!" from the Cardinals. They had won 15 in a row on getaway day heading into Game 2. Nearly everything had gone right for the wild-card Cardinals in the post-season -- until the ninth inning Thursday. "Cant last forever," manager Tony La Russa said. Motte had been virtually untouchable, allowing one hit in nine innings in the post-season, before giving up two hits in the ninth. Ian Kinsler hit a leadoff single, stole second and went to third on Elvis Andrus base hit to right-centre, ending Mottes night. Motte thought La Russa was coming out to talk strategy. "You always want to finish it off, but sometimes hes the boss. Not sometimes, hes always the boss," Motte said. "Its a tough loss but we get to come out and do it again." Pujols, a two-time Gold Glove winner, ran toward second to take the relay throw from centre fielder Jon Jay but he whiffed on the catch, allowing the ball to roll toward the mound. Andrus, who made an aggressive turn at first and then retreated, easily advanced to second to put runners on second and third. More than an hour after the game, the three official scorers decided to charge Pujols with an error on the play. Josh Hamilton hit a sacrifice fly to tie it and Andrus advanced to third. Lance Lynn relieved and gave up another sacrifice fly to Michael Young. The result was a rare failure in the post-season by the St. Louis bullpen, which had given up just four runs in 31 2-3 innings since the start of the NLCS. Pujols left Busch Stadium without speaking to reporters. La Russa said he didnt get a good view of the play from the dugout, but remembered Pujols talking with catcher Yadier Molina afterward. "Hes a heady player and obviously we dont want the lead runner, the back runner, to go to second base," La Russa said. "I dont know exactly what happened there but that was an important extra base." Jay said his throw could have been better but also said it was impportant to "get rid of it quick. Diego Costa Jersey. "It just tailed a little bit, I mean, it was inches," Jay added. "So it was just the way it went." Was Pujols correctly lined up? "I dont know," Jay said. "It all happened so fast." La Russa has steadfastly refused to name Motte the Cardinals closer -- he has five saves this post-season after earning nine in the regular season -- and he pulled him after the two singles in favour of Arthur Rhodes. La Russa made it clear that Motte remains his ninth-inning guy, though. "I know that if we get the lead on Saturday, hell be 100 per cent ready to go," the manager said. "He caught a tough break, which is baseball. "Next time theyll hit a line drive right at somebody and well get an out," La Russa added. The ninth spoiled a stellar performance from Jaime Garcia, the 25-year-old lefty whos a lot more comfortable on the Busch Stadium mound than on the road. "It was a tough one," Garcia said. "I felt like I did a pretty good job against a really tough lineup, so put this one in the past and move forward and get ready to go to Texas." Garcia had seven strikeouts and outduelled Colby Lewis for seven innings of three-hit ball, totally taming the Rangers big bats and setting the stage another big pinch hit from Allen Craig. Garcia has a 1.93 ERA in three home starts in the playoffs, and allowed six runs in four innings in his lone road appearance. Garcia was a 14-game winner and finished third in the NL rookie of year balloting last season and the sophomore season was almost as good, moving the Cardinals to sign him to a four-year contract in June. Hes the first Mexican-born pitcher to start in the World Series since the Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela in 1981. Garcias home-road splits were fairly drastic in the regular season, 9-4 and 2.55 at home with a pair of shutouts, but only 4-3 and 4.61 on the road. The Rangers got only three singles, and only Adrian Beltres two-out hit in the seventh tagged. Craigs pinch-hit RBI single off Alexi Ogando in Game 1 was the first go-ahead pinch RBI in World Series play since Wade Boggs drew a bases-loaded walk in 1996. The circumstances in Game 2 were eerily familiar, two men on, two out and the Rangers going to the bullpen to counter the right-handed hitting Craig, just one inning later. cheap jerseys wholesale jerseys ' ' '