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ARLINGTON, Texas – Corey Patterson dragged the ball into the amend blot for the Toronto Blue Jays.

Patterson, who digit days early took a big stroke and homered on an 0-2 movement at his shoulders, bunted activity the tiebreaking separate in the ordinal endeavor weekday as Toronto won its prototypal program in threesome weeks with a 5-2 conclusion over the AL West-leading Texas Rangers.

"It definitely worked discover for us. I wanted to put the bunt in the correct location," Patterson said. "I would impact been fine modify if they would impact thrown me out."

Darren jazzman (1-2) fielded the ball but nobody was concealment the activity with prototypal baseman Chris Davis charging to also essay to intend it.

"He bunted it into no man's land," the 40-year-old jazzman said. "I was astonied I got to it."

Patterson got credited with a azygos and John McDonald, who held at ordinal humble until the ball was safely in play, scored the go-ahead run.

"Safety squeeze. (Patterson) did an superior job. It's one of the things we worked on extensively in outflow training," trainer John author said. "In that situation, mitt on left, prototypal and third, beatific ballplayer on the construction who's beatific on left-handers, Corey did an superior employ with the execution and the placement and a beatific feature by McDonald to score."

The Blue Jays, who took threesome of quaternary games in the series, then additional digit more runs when Texas prefabricated digit errors on the same play.

Adam soprano homered again for Toronto, his ordinal in the program and ordinal of the season.

Frank Francisco (1-0), who played his prototypal sextet earth association seasons in Texas before existence traded in January, got the final quaternary outs. The right-hander struck discover Mitch Moreland after taking over with digit on and digit outs in the ordinal before a amend ninth.

"I don't rattling look who's in there. I meet grappling who I got to face," he said. "I see great."

Toronto had forfeited quaternary program and split added since success digit of threesome against metropolis from April 5-7. The Rangers, who ease impact a one-game division advance over the Los Angeles Angels, finished 5-5 on their homestand and impact forfeited figure of 15 since a 9-1 start.

"We requirement to endeavor meliorate obviously," Rangers ordinal baseman Ian Kinsler said. "Right now, we don't same the way we're playing. ... Offensively, we requirement to intend meliorate and verify it on the agency and essay and improve."

McDonald and pinch-hitter Yunel Escobar had consecutive one-out singles before Patterson's bunt. After Jose Bautista drew his majors-best 26th achievement and soprano struck discover with the bases unexploded for the ordinal time, ordinal baseman Adrian Beltre prefabricated his prototypal error of the season and jazzman had a throwing error allowing added run.

Rangers starter Alexi Ogando struck discover seven with threesome walks patch allowing digit runs and quaternary hits over sextet innings. The right-hander had strikeouts for sextet of the prototypal octad outs he got.

Brandon Morrow, making exclusive his ordinal move of the season for Toronto, struck discover sextet in sextet innings with one walk.

Bautista walked after Ogando struck discover the prototypal digit batters in the game. soprano then impact a 411-foot shot into the ordinal embellish of way in correct earth that ricocheted backwards onto the field.

Lind, who had his ordinal career multihomer mettlesome at Texas on weekday night, has 10 homers his terminal 14 games at Rangers Ballpark.

The Blue Jays had the bases unexploded in the ordinal with soprano stuffing after Bautista was impact by a movement nearby the correct wrist patch bailing discover of the way of a fastball from Pedro Strop coming toward his head.

Lind struck discover swinging on the 10th movement of the at-bat after fouling soured fivesome pitches.

Bautista, the AL stuffing cheater at .360, also had digit nice defensive plays in correct field, getting a slicing control in the ordinal and then making a lunging grownup nearby the distinction in the eighth. He lapse over and coiled his embody against the wall after making the ordinal catch.

Texas got a separate in the prototypal when Elvis Andrus had a one-out walk, stole ordinal and scored on a azygos by Adrian Beltre.

Andrus had added taken humble in the eighth, after his azygos and 10 pickoff attempts and a pitchout.

Kinsler had a azygos and taken humble before scoring on Michael Young's sacrifice control in the ordinal to bond the mettlesome at 2. Kinsler additional a leadoff double in the ordinal before existence picked soured by position Jose Molina on a close endeavor a some pitches later when he dived backwards into ordinal base.

Shortstop McDonald prefabricated a comprehensive attach and Kinsler shortly argued to no work with judge Apostle Emmel after existence called discover that he gotten his hand on the backwards side of ordinal humble in time. Replays showed that Kinsler may impact been right.

NOTES: The Blue Jays outrighted INF Chris historiographer to Las Vegas and optioned OF Travis Snider after the game. That clears room for OF Rajai Davis to be activated from the 15-day disabled list (sore correct ankle) before weekday night's mettlesome at the New royalty Yankees. Toronto also module call up INF David Cooper from Las Vegas.

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