ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- After struggling against Marco Estrada in the first five innings, the Tampa Bay Rays started to break through in the sixth and Matt Duffy came up with the big hit.Duffys three-run double highlighted a five-run inning and the last-place Rays beat the AL East-leading Toronto Blue Jays for the second straight game, 7-5 on Saturday night.The big outburst came against Estrada (8-7) after he allowed just two singles in the first five innings. Duffys double, the fifth hit of the sixth, missed being a grand slam by less than two feet.You need to find ways to stay in a game by grinding out at bats and stringing together good at bats, Duffy said. When you do that, you find yourself in a situation like that where youve got bases loaded, nobody out and nobodys hit a ball hard yet.We found ourselves with opportunities and once you do that, you look to do damage.Rookie Blake Snell (5-7) got the win after giving up one run and two h`its while striking out seven in six innings.Torontos lead in the division was trimmed to one-half game over Boston, which played at Oakland later Saturday.When he began the sixth inning, Estrada had given up only two runs in 22 1/3 career innings at Tropicana Field. Bobby Wilson, Logan Forsythe, Kevin Kiermaier and Evan Longoria opened the inning with consecutive singles. After a walk to Brad Miller brought in a second run, Duffy cleared the bases with a double to make it 5-1 and get Estrada out of the game.That last inning, a bloop hit, I couldnt make the play on a bunt, next thing you know its 5-1, Estrada said. Im not really sure what happened. Just kind of got out of hand.That inning got away in a hurry, said Toronto manager John Gibbons. Marco was rolling right along and then bam! They piled on right there.Kiermaier made it 7-1 with a two-run home run off reliever Joe Blagini in the seventh.Toronto rallied for four runs in the ninth off Enny Romero before Alex Colome got the final out for his 30th save.Forsythe had three of the Rays 13 hits and scored twice.Estrada gave up five runs and seven hits in five-plus innings, striking out six.BAD SPOT FOR BLUE JAYSThe Blue Jays will have to win their remaining four games against the Rays to win their season series for only the second time in the last 11 years. Toronto is 6-9 against Tampa Bay and 25-16 against the rest of the AL East. The Blue Jays are 31-61 at Tropicana Field since 2006.SOUZA BENCHEDOF Steven Souza Jr., who has struck out 144 times in 105 games, was out of the Rays lineup for the fourth time in five games. We have an opportunity here this last month to see some guys play, manager Kevin Cash said. To be honest with you, the guys that are in there (Nick Franklin, Corey Dickerson) are really producing.TRAINERS ROOMBlue Jays: RHP Gavin Floyd (strained right shoulder) hopes to throw off a mound soon. He started a throwing program three weeks ago.Rays: RHP Chase Whitley (Tommy John surgery) will likely make his final minor league start Sunday for Double-A Montgomery. He is 2-0 with a 1.09 ERA over eight previous outings.UP NEXTBlue Jays: J.A. Happ (17-4) will try to become only the second left-hander to win 18 games for the Blue Jays. David Wells won 20 in 2000.Rays: RHP Chris Archer (8-17), who leads the majors in losses and leads the AL with 202 strikeouts, has won three of his last five starts. Wholesale Custom Orioles Shirts . 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SAINT-MALO, France -- Hitting the asphalt at something like 60 kilometres per hour flayed off a patch of skin from Tom Veelers right thigh. Blood snaked down his leg from his sliced-up right knee. His white jersey was torn and soiled. "Bruised and scratched from all sides," said the big Dutchman when asked how he felt. "But ... yeah, OK." In short, Stage 10 was another day at the office for the charging-bull sprinters of the Tour de France. Chris Froome, the race leader, isnt a sprinter. The Briton was just relieved to survive unscathed all the pushing and shoving on two wheels. The "worst nightmare," he said, for riders like him -- lighter, less muscular and with eyes fixed on reaching the podium in Paris on July 21 -- is to be felled by crashes like the one that floored Veelers on Tuesday in Saint-Malo. The fall came in the shadow of the Brittany ports crenelated fortified walls, with spectators crammed cheek by jowl like oysters in crates. "Every day you get through with the yellow jersey is a blessing," Froome said. "So Im happy just to tick that one off." Veelers job is to help launch his teammate, sprinter Marcel Kittel, in the final mad dash for the line. He did that just fine on Tuesday, because Kittel won -- becoming the first rider at this 100th Tour to win two stages, having also won Stage 1. As Kittel sprinted away, rival Mark Cavendish hared after the German. In doing so, Cavendishs left arm barged into Veelers right arm. Because both were riding at such speed, the contact was enough to tip the Dutch rider over. "Marcel went all the way left and Cavendish dived to the left, I think to try to follow Marcel," Veelers explained after he picked himself up, climbed back on his bike and rode through the finish to his Argos-Shimano team bus, where a shoal of impatient, sharp-elbowed reporters waited. "He touched my handlebars and knocked me over." Cavendish was adamant this wasnt deliberate. The Briton with 24 Tour stage wins lost his temper with a reporter who asked if he was at fault, grabbing his voice recorder. "I touched with him. But the roads bearing left. I know youre trying to get all the Oh, Mark Cavendish, a really bad sprint again. The roads bearing left. Two hundred and fifty meters to go, the road bears left... I followed the road," he said. "So I think if anyones trying to get, "Oh, Mark Cavendish, dangerous sprint". I think youre in the wrong there, you know?" The race jury studied video of the incident but took no action, allowing Cavendish to keep his third place behind Kittel and stage runner-up Andre Greipel, another German who won the finishing sprint on Stage 6. Kittel also gave Cavendish the benefit of the doubt. "I cannot imagine that it was on purpose because it was a very hectic situation and it was just the last moment of the sprint," he said.dddddddddddd "Sometimes that is something which just happens. Having luxuriated Monday in their first rest day, riders were generally content Tuesday to race at a leisurely pace. The pack allowed five riders to race away and build up a lead -- and then reeled them in as teams set up their sprinters to compete in the final dash. The 197-kilometre jaunt from the Brittany town of Saint-Gildas-Des-Bois to Saint-Malo on its northern coast took the race past Plesse, where Lucien Mazan was born in 1882. Better known as Lucien Petit-Breton, he won the Tour in 1907 and 1908. Victorias Ryder Hesjedal was the top Canadian at 41st in the overall classification, 27 minutes and 48 seconds off the pace. Hesjedal, who is racing with a broken rib, finished Stage 10 1:40 befind the leaders. David Veilleux of Quebec City was in 131st overall, while Svein Tuft of Langley, B.C., was in 181st. On Wednesday, the focus shifts away from the sprinters and back to Froome and his rivals for overall victory. Stage 11 -- a time trial where the riders all race individually against the clock -- could be one of the most visually spectacular of this Tour where every day already has delivered a feast for the eyes. The 33-kilometre course loops from the Normandy port of Avranches, with its memorial to U.S. Gen. George S. Patton, to the breathtaking Mont-Saint-Michel, a Gothic-style Benedictine abbey and walled village that towers skyward from an islet perched in a bay. Froome got bronze in the time trial -- a specialist discipline -- at last years London Olympics. This year, he used a wind tunnel in Southampton, England, to improve his position on his time trial bike. As race leader, Froome will set out last on Wednesday afternoon in his canary yellow jersey. He aims to grow the time gaps he opened on Saturday, when he demoralized rivals by blowing them away on a climb in the Pyrenees mountains. The Tour runner-up last year behind Sky teammate Bradley Wiggins, Froome already has a lead of one minute 25 seconds over second-placed Alejandro Valverde. Another Spaniard, two-time champion Alberto Contador, is 1:51 off Froome, in sixth. "Time trialing is one of those things that the more you do it, the better you become at it. You have that feeling of your own body, your own pace. This year, Ive done a few races with similar kind of time trials and I dont think theres any real secret to it. You can make small advantages with equipment. Weve got a new time trial bike this year, Ive spent a bit of time in a wind tunnel, which Ive never done before. All of these things add up," Froome said. "The course is fast and flat so hopefully a good one for me," he said. "I should be able to hold on to my advantage and maybe get some more time." If Froome significantly increases his lead, then barring a crash or other mishap, victory in Paris should pretty much be in his pocket. ' ' '