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BOSTON — Evan Longoria homered and drove in five runs to raise his major league-leading total to 44 RBIs, leading the Tampa Bay Rays to a 14-5 win over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday.

Pat Burrell, Carlos Pena, Ben Zobrist and Akinori Iwamura each drove in two runs for Tampa Bay, which has won seven of 10.

Longoria’s homer off Jon Lester (2-3) hit the top of the center-field wall and bounced over after Carl Crawford walked, making it 2-0 three batters into the game.

Rocco Baldelli and Julio Lugo hit solo homers for Boston, which lost for just the fourth time in 16 games in Fenway Park this season.

Scott Kazmir (4-3) gave up three runs and eight hits in five innings for Tampa Bay, and Lance Cormier pitched 3 2-3 scoreless innings for his first save.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Brian Tallet yielded two hits over seven innings, Lyle Overbay homered and the Blue Jays avoided their first three-game skid of the season.

Adam Lind had two run-scoring hits for the Blue Jays, whose offense shook a two-game slump with 15 hits in the AL East co-leaders’ ninth victory in their last 11 meetings with the A’s.

Jason Giambi homered twice for Oakland, which has lost six of nine. Sean Gallagher (1-1) got the loss after allowing 10 hits and four runs in the first five innings.

Tallet (2-1) struck out seven in his fifth outing as an injury replacement in Toronto’s rotation. The 31-year-old reliever had made just six career starts before this season.

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