One Pitch, Three Runs, No Reward: Rays 1, Blue Jays 3

Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images One swing erased five innings of brilliance from Pepiot in a painful loss. One strike away.
That’s how close Ryan Pepiot was, not once but twice, to escaping the sixth inning unscathed on Wednesday night in Toronto. Instead, one 0-2 pitch turned a night of promise into another gut-punch loss for the Tampa Bay Rays. Alejandro Kirk, down to his final strike, launched a three-run homer that flipped a 1-0 Rays lead into a 3-1 deficit. It was just Kirk’s