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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon feels his team reached an important regular-season milestone. Yunel Escobar and Ben Zobrist homered during a three-run seventh inning and the surging Rays improved to a season-high 10 games over .500 by beating the Minnesota Twins 7-4 on Monday night. "The thing I like is that were 10 games over," Maddon said. "Youve got to go to 10, then youve got to go to 15, etc., etc. The major takeaway from tonight is the fact that were 10 games over. Were playing, probably, our best baseball right now." Escobar had a leadoff tiebreaking homer in the seventh off Samuel Deduno (4-4), who departed after Desmond Jennings followed with a triple. Caleb Thielbar entered and got one out before Zobrist gave Tampa Bay a 6-3 lead with a two-run shot. "Were always ready to jump on an opportunity," Tampa Bay right fielder Wil Myers said. "That just shows what kind of team we are, and capable of those kind of things. I think thats big going down the stretch." Alex Torres (3-0) pitched a perfect seventh for the Rays, who have won nine of 10. Escobar also had a sacrifice fly in the eighth. "Weve been playing well," Maddon said. "Pitching well, catching the ball on defence and not expanding our strike zone. I just like the fact that were showing kind of a comeback mentality right now." Fernando Rodney got the final two outs to pick up his 20th save after an RBI single by Pedro Florimon off Jamey Wright. Justin Morneau homered for the Twins, who have lost eight of nine. Deduno gave up five runs and 10 hits over six-plus innings. Thielbar had not allowed a run in his first 17 appearances during his rookie season before Zobrists homer. After Brian Dozier hit a third-inning RBI double, the Twins took a 3-2 lead in the fourth when Morneau had a solo homer and Chris Parmelee added a sacrifice fly off Roberto Hernandez. Minnesota went 4 for 4 with the sac fly during the fourth, but had Oswaldo Arcia thrown out trying to advance to second after hitting a single and Aaron Hicks picked off at first by Rays catcher Jose Molina. "Guys were trying, but to the pickoff at first base with Hicksy, and Arcia trying to go to second base, silly stuff like that will end up shooting you in the end, and it did," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. Morneau tied Bob Allison for fourth place on the Twins career list with 211 homers. Minnesota loaded the bases with two outs in the fifth, but failed to score when Trevor Plouffe flew out. The Twins went 1 for 10 with runners in scoring position through six innings. Roberto Hernandez allowed three runs and eight hits in six innings. The right-hander struck out three, walked three and hit a batter. Tampa Bay tied it at 3 in the fifth on Evan Longorias run-scoring single. Luke Scott put the Rays up 1-0 on a first-inning homer. Molina made it 2-0 with an RBI single in the second. Deduno got hit in the leg by James Loneys hard-hit infield single during the second, but stayed in the game. One day after having his career-best 16-game hitting streak ended, Loney had two hits. NOTES: Maddon remains hopeful that 12-game winner Matt Moore will be added as a replacement player to the AL All-Star team. ... Hicks had a career-high four hits. ... Rays RHP Alex Cobb, struck in the right ear by a liner on June 15, threw off a mound for the second time and didnt rule out pitching in games in late July or early August. ... Twins RHP PJ Walters accepted an outright assignment to Triple-A Rochester. RHP Cole De Vries (sprained right elbow) has been placed on the DL by Rochester. ... Minnesota RHP Rich Harden (shoulder) could throwing batting practice this week. ... 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But Saturday night, the left-hander makes what may well be the biggest start of his life.Happ, 20-4 with a 3.20 ERA, faces the Boston Red Sox and young lefty Eduardo Rodriguez in the second game of the last-weekend series.The Blue Jays came to Boston for the David Ortiz weekend tied with the Baltimore Orioles for the two American League wild card spots. They lost Friday night, falling one game behind Baltimore and shriking their lead over Detroit to one-half game and Seattle to a full game.The Red Sox remain one-half game ahead of the Cleveland Indians for home-field advantage in their upcoming American League Division Series.We kind of anticipated this might be the way that it shakes out, manager John Farrell said of meeting the Indians and former Red Sox manager Terry Francona, his old friend and boss. Obviously a very good team. Well have time to review them more in depth as is typically the case when we get ready for the postseason, but were loomking forward to these final two games here.Happ, who has won 27 of his last 33 decisions dating back to late last season with the Pittsburgh Pirates, is 2-0 against the Red Sox this season, 5-3 with a 3.74 ERA in his career and 2-1 with a 4.34 at Fenway Park.Happ is trying to become the first left-hander in Jays history to win 21 games. He allowed 164 hits in 188 2/3 innings this season.In two starts against Boston this season, Happ, known for his unflappable demeanor and lack of emotion on the mound, has allowed three earned runs in 13 innnings.ddddddddddddDont let him fool you, staffmate Marcus Stroman told the Toronto Star this week. Hes very emotional. He just doesnt show it on the field.Therell be times when he gets a big out and hell come in (the dugout) and let out a big yell, or if hes frustrated hell let a little fire out under the tunnel. But hes cool, calm and collected on the mound.Red Sox hitters do not have very good numbers against Happ with Xander Bogaerts coming in at 1-for-15, Mookie Betts 2-for-14, David Ortiz 3-for-16 and Dustin Pedroia 6-for-26.Rodriguez, coming off striking out 13 in 5 1/3 innings in his last start, has a 3.10 ERA in 13 starts since returning from the minors and is the likely Game 4 starter for the Red Sox in the ALDS. He has limited opposing hitters to a .171 batting average over his last eight starts.Eddie going down to Pawtucket, working on some things, the adjustments he made delivery-wise, coming back with three more defined pitches, Boston manager John Farrell said of Rodriguez, who got 13 of 16 outs against the Rays via the strikeout.Rodriguez has lost twice in as many starts against Toronto this season (only two earned runs in six innings at Toronto on Sept. 10) and is 1/3 with a 6.85 ERA lifetime against the Jays.The current Toronto roster has six home runs in 71 at-bats against Rodriguez, including one apiece by Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion. But Josh Donaldson is 1-for-10 and Kevin Pillar 1-for-8 against him. ' ' '