Yonny Chirinos pitched five hitless innings, Austin Meadows homered and had three RBIs, and the Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 on Monday afternoon in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Chirinos (6-1) allowed two walks while striking out seven in five innings.

Toronto starter Aaron Sanchez (3-5) allowed one run, six hits and two walks in three innings before leaving with a fingernail problem. He struck out one.

Jonathan Davis hit his first major league home for the Blue Jays, and Freddy Galvis also homered for Toronto.

The Rays scored once in the second inning. Travis d'Arnaud singled with one out, took second on a groundout and scored on a single by Meadows, his sixth hit in six at-bats.

Jacob Waguespack replaced Sanchez in the fourth inning, making his major league debut after being called up from Triple-A Buffalo on Sunday.

The Rays' three-run fourth started with d'Arnaud's double. After two strikeouts, Tommy Pham, who extended his hit streak to 13 with a first-inning double, hustled a ground ball up the middle into a double as d'Arnaud scored. Ji-Man Choi hit an RBI single to left, advanced to second on the throw home and continued home on the errant throw to second by catcher Luke Maile.

Oliver Drake replaced Chirinos in the sixth and Maile hit a leadoff single, Toronto's first hit of the game. After two strikeouts and a walk, Chaz Roe replaced Drake and struck out Randal Grichuk.

Hunter Wood replaced Roe in the seventh and allowed a leadoff walk to Galvis and a two-out homer to Davis, cutting the Rays' lead to 4-2.

Jose Alvarado replaced Wood in the eighth and allowed a leadoff walk to Eric Sogard, but Rowdy Tellez ended the inning by grounding into a double play.

Waguespack, who struck out seven while allowing three runs (two earned) in four innings, was replaced by Zac Rosscup in the bottom of the eighth.

Kevin Kiermaier, who made a superb catch at the center field wall on Tellez in the fourth, led off with an infield single and took third on d'Arnaud's ground ball double that Rosscup deflected. Sam Gaviglio replaced Rosscup and allowed Daniel Robertson's two-run double and Meadows's 11th home run.

Galvis hit his eighth homer this season in the ninth against Adam Kolarek.

--Field Level Media