TORONTO (AP) — onto with a pair of nearly identical blasts.Meadows and Lowe each hit two homers Aaron Altherr Jersey , becoming the first teammates to hit upper-deck shots at Rogers Centre in the same game, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Blue Jays 11-7 on Friday night.According to MLB, both upper-level drives measured 436 feet.“I felt like that’s about as far as I can hit it, honestly,” Meadows said.Both long balls landed in the first few rows of the fifth deck in right.“They were fighting over which one went further, which was pretty entertaining,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said.Neither Lowe nor Meadows seemed likely to lose any sleep over which ball went farther.“I think we’ll be pretty happy with 436 for both of us,” Lowe said. “I’m sure neither of us will be upset.”Meadows has homered in three straight games for the first time in his career. He and Avisaíl García each had three hits as the Rays finished with a season-high 16.“We’ve got a lot of guys doing good things,” Cash said. “Austin is right at the top of the list. He’s really locked in.”The Rays won their fifth straight. It’s the second time this season first-place Tampa Bay has won five in a row.Toronto trailed 8-0 before putting the tying run at third base in the eighth inning. Facing Luke Maile with the bases loaded, Tampa Bay’s Diego Castillo fell behind 3-0 but responded with three straight strikes, catching Maile looking to end the threat.“All I was thinking was, ‘Just throw it in the strike zone. If he hits it, he hits it Clay Buchholz Jersey ,'” Castillo said through a translator.Willy Adames gave the Rays some breathing room with a two-run homer off Javy Guerra in a three-run ninth.Meadows and Lowe became the 17th and 18th players to reach the 500 level of seating at Rogers Centre, which opened in 1989. Their shots came four batters apart in a four-run third. They were the 21st and 22nd homers to reach the stadium’s upper deck.No one homered into the 500 level in Toronto last season. The most recent player to do it was Josh Donalsdon, who connected off Cincinnati’s Asher Wojciechowski on May 30, 2017.Meadows led off the game with a homer to right, then opened the third with his upper-deck blast. Meadows’ homers were his fifth and sixth.After his upper-deck drive in the third, Lowe barely cleared the outfield fence with his second homer, a line drive off Elvis Luciano in the seventh.It was the first multihomer game of each player’s career.Tampa Bay’s Tommy Pham reached base safely for the 46th straight game, extending his team record streak, with an RBI single in the sixth.Ryne Stanek and Ryan Yarbrough (2-1) each pitched two perfect innings before Yonny Chrinos walked Randal Grichuk to begin the fifth.The Blue Jays cut the gap with a six-run seventh against Chirinos, whose night ended on a two-run homer by former Rays catcher Maile.Blue Jays right-hander Trent Thornton (0-1) allowed five runs and eight hits in three-plus innings, his first loss in three career starts.“They hit a lot of balls hard and I suffered from that,” Thornton said.TRAINER’S ROOMRays: INF Joey Wendle (left hamstring) could rejoin the team next weekend.Blue Jays: RHP Ryan Tepera (right elbow) pitched one scoreless inning for Triple-A Buffalo, his first rehab outing. GM Ross Atkins said Tepera could be activated as soon as Sunday. … LHP Ryan Borucki (left elbow) will be shut down for two weeks after experiencing pain during a throwing session April 3. Borucki received a cortisone shot Friday. … OF Dalton Pompey (concussion) will be evaluated Saturday. Pompey was injured during spring training when he bumped his head on a bat wedged into his locker. … RHP David Phelps (elbow surgery) is expected to begin throwing bullpen sessions next week. Phelps missed the 2018 season. … LHP Clayton Richard (right knee) will resume playing catch this weekend.STARTING STRONGMeadows’ first-inning shot marked the seventh straight game that Tampa Bay has scored in the opening inning http://www.philliesfanproshop.com/authentic-pat-neshek-jersey , a team record. The Rays have outscored opponents 18-1 in the first this season.BETTER TO GIVEBlue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo arrived in his office Friday to find Rays promotional items, including bobblehead dolls and T-shirts, all over his desk and stuffed into his locker. The “gifts” were from Cash, Montoyo’s former colleague in Tampa Bay. Montoyo said he planned to return the favor Saturday.UP NEXTRays: LHP Blake Snell (2-1, 2.84 ERA) starts Saturday. Last year’s AL Cy Young Award winner went 2-0 with a 0.54 ERA with 27 strikeouts in three starts against Toronto in 2018.Blue Jays: RHP Clay Buchholz will make his Toronto debut after missing the start of the season because of a sore elbow. Buchholz went 7-2 with a 2.01 ERA in 16 starts for Arizona last season. FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Don’t call Marwin Gonzalez a utilityman.At least not around the Minnesota Twins.“That’s something I’ve heard used before, all the time,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said on Monday after welcoming Gonzalez to the team’s spring training ballpark. “We consider Marwin an everyday player. He’s just a multi-positional everyday player.”A veteran of seven seasons, all with the Astros, Gonzalez has played every position except pitcher and catcher — and played them well. In Houston’s 2017 World Series championship season, his best year, he committed eight errors in 134 games while batting .303 with 23 homers and 90 RBIs. He finished in the top 20 of the AL MVP voting.Despite a dropoff last year (.247, 16 HR Richie Ashburn Jersey , 68 RBIs), the Twins will pay Gonzalez $21 million for the next two years even though they don’t really have a spot for him.One spot wouldn’t be enough, anyway.“It’s kind of boring for me to be in the same spot every day,” he said. “I used to be that way, years ago I wanted to be good at one position and be able to play there and establish myself for my entire career. With time, I fall in love with what I do and then I feel comfortable everywhere.”The Twins just gave shortstop Jorge Polanco a new deal and added Jonathan Schoop at second base and C.J. Cron at first. Third baseman Miguel Sano, an All-Star in 2017, is seen as a potential franchise cornerstone if he can stay healthy.The outfield is also crowded, with Eddie Rosario in left and Max Kepler in right; five-time All-Star Nelson Cruz, Minnesota’s highest-profile offseason addition, is the designated hitter.The Twins already had Ehire Adrianza as a backup infielder.Gonzalez expressed no preference for any one position — or even how he might choose to be bounced around — saying it was up to the manager to decide. Baldelli said they would figure that out over the next month.But it’s something he’s excited to think about.“It means everything. Because it doesn’t mean just one particular thing or two things. It just gives you so many different options,” Baldelli said.“What he does is incredibly difficult and challenging for most. But also not everyone embraces that role, either. To do what he does Chuck Klein Jersey , it takes a very special player.”Gonzalez, who turns 30 next month, will receive $12 million this year and $9 million in 2020. To make room for him on the 40-man roster, the Twins designated outfielder Zack Granite for assignment.The deal was agreed to in principle last week but not finalized until Gonzalez passed a physical. He said he has been working out in Houston before moving to Miami two weeks ago, doing all baseball activities except facing pitchers, to avoid injury.Dozens of free agents remain unsigned, including market leader Bryce Harper, who is expected to get a deal topping the $300 million, 10-year contract signed by shortstop Manny Machado only last week.Waiting until spring training was well underway before signing was “kind of frustrating,” Gonzalez said.“Especially the last week, going to social media and seeing everybody in a baseball uniform,” he said. “And you are just working out by yourself and getting ready for spring training. But I think that the wait was worth it. I couldn’t be in a better spot than down here.”__