TORONTO--Brandon Lowe went 4-for-4 with an upper-deck solo home run, right-hander Taj Bradley extended his scoreless streak to 23 innings and the visiting Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 13-0 Thursday afternoon. Brandon Lowe finished with three RBIs, Isaac Paredes had two hits and four RBIs and Alex Jackson added two hits and three RBIs for Tampa Bay in the rubber match of the three-game series. The Rays scored a season high in runs to complete a 4-3 road trip. The Blue Jays dropped to 2-4 on their nine-game homestand. In six innings, Bradley (6-4) allowed one walk and had seven strikeouts to win his fifth consecutive decision. Toronto right-hander Chris Bassitt (8-9) allowed three runs, five hits and one walk with six strikeouts in five innings. Lowe hit his 12th homer of the season, a 414-foot blast to the 500 level in right on a 3-2 changeup with two outs in the first. He is the first player to hit a homer to the 500 level at Rogers Centre since he achieved the feat April 12, 2019. The Rays added two runs in the third. Richie Palacios singled with one out and scored on Paredes' double to the left field corner. Lowe followed with an RBI double to right. Bassitt hit Randy Arozarena on the helmet with a changeup but escaped the inning with two strikeouts. The Rays added four runs in the sixth. Trevor Richards allowed a leadoff single to Amed Rosario, who stole second. Taylor Walls walked and Jonny DeLuca's bloop single to left loaded the bases. Jackson hit a two-run single to center. A groundout moved the runners to second and third and Paredes drove them in with a single to left. Tampa Bay poured it on with five runs in the seventh. Facing Ryan Burr, Rosario led off with a double, Walls walked with one out and Jackson hit an RBI double. After Palacios walked, Nate Pearson replaced Burr and walked Parades to force in a run. Brandon Lowe hit an RBI single to right, Arozarena hit a sacrifice fly to left and Josh Lowe hit a run-scoring single to make it 12-0. Toronto third baseman Ernie Clement pitched the ninth and allowed two hits and a run.

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 NOTTINGHAM, England- England's Ollie Pope rode his luck to make 121 and lead the hosts to a rapid 416 all out on the first day of the second test against West Indies at Trent Bridge on Thursday. Dropped on 46 and 54, Pope compiled his sixth test century as the hosts built on Ben Duckett's sparkling 71 in the morning to establish a strong position. Put in to bat, England lost Zak Crawley to the third ball of the match, caught at slip by Alick Athanaze off Alzarri Joseph, but Duckett hit four boundaries in a row to get started and sped to his fifty off 32 balls. The left-hander looked well on course for his fourth test century until he pushed at a full ball from Shamar Joseph and nicked a low catch to Jason Holder at second slip. Pope, dropped by Athanaze at gully just before lunch, should also have been caught by Holder after the interval before Joe Root, on 14, top-edged an attempted pull off Jayden Seales and skied a catch to Alzarri Joseph. Harry Brook moved briskly to 36, including a six over backward point, before he edged a paddle sweep off spinner Kevin Sinclair to Kirk McKenzie at short leg and the bowler celebrated with a backward somersault. Pope grew in confidence, moving to his hundred with a crisp four through square leg before removing his helmet and raising his bat to the crowd. Pope edged a catch to Kavem Hodge off Alzarri Joseph but captain Ben Stokes made a welcome return to form with the bat, hitting eight fours in his 69 before being caught off part-time spinner Hodge. Jamie Smith (36) and Chris Woakes (37) chipped in down the order and England will feel confident of taking advantage of a positive start to move 2-0 up in the series following their innings victory in the first test at Lord's.