TORONTO -- Jose Reyes scored twice and R.A. Dickey picked up his 14th win of the season as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated Tampa Bay 6-3 on Friday night to end the Rays' seven-game winning streak.
The loss prevented Tampa Bay from moving closer to locking up a playoff spot. The Rays (90-70) entered play one game up on Cleveland and two games up on Texas in the American League wild-card race.
Tampa Bay can still host the wild-card game by beating Toronto in both games on the weekend. The Blue Jays (73-87) have been out of playoff contention for weeks and have to settle for a spoiler role as their disappointing season comes to a close.
Dickey (14-13) settled down after giving up early solo homers to Ben Zobrist and Delmon Young. The Blue Jays put up four runs in the fourth and added a pair in the fifth as they improved to 39-40 at Rogers Centre this season.
Jeremy Hellickson was perfect his first time through the Toronto order. The Blue Jays got the bats going in the fourth inning and took advantage of some sloppy defence.
Reyes singled and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Munenori Kawasaki. Brett Lawrie of Langley, B.C., reached on an error and Moises Sierra drove in Reyes with a single to right field.
With runners on the corners, Anthony Gose hit a blooper to shallow centre field that dropped in for a hit. Outfielder Sam Fuld's throw to the plate was not in time to catch Lawrie.
Ryan Goins followed with a base hit to centre that Fuld misplayed for an error. The ball rolled all the way to the wall, allowing Sierra and Gose to score easily. Goins tried to score himself but was thrown out at the plate for the final out.
Hellickson issued a pair of two-out walks in the fifth inning and both runners came around to score. Lawrie singled home Reyes and Kawasaki came across when Sierra reached on an infield single.
Wesley Wright relieved Hellickson and struck out Gose with runners on the corners. Hellickson (12-10) allowed six runs -- three of them earned -- along with six hits and two walks. He had five strikeouts.
Tampa Bay loaded the bases in the eighth after two Toronto errors and a walk to Zobrist. Sergio Santos relieved Dickey and needed just one pitch to get James Loney to ground into a double play.
Santos gave up a run in the ninth before striking out pinch-hitter Luke Scott. It was his first save of the season.
Dickey's knuckleball was floating nicely and he mixed up his speeds to keep the Tampa hitters guessing. He allowed two earned runs, five hits and a walk over 7 1/3 innings while striking out three.
Zobrist opened the scoring in the first inning by taking a 3-0 pitch over the right-field wall for his 12th home run of the season.
Young followed an inning later with his third homer of the year and 100th of his career. Toronto left-fielder Kevin Pillar helped keep it a one-run inning with a great diving catch on a shallow flare off the bat of former Blue Jay Kelly Johnson.
