Losing an early three-run lead wasn’t going to keep the Rays from winning another game.

After the Astros rallied to tie Thursday’s game in the sixth inning, the Rays responded in a big way, scoring five runs in both the seventh and eighth innings, and rolling to a 13-3 victory at Daikin Park in Houston.

The win was the Rays’ eighth in their past nine games and 13th in 19 as they improved to 29-27, two games over .500 for the first time since April 2.

Junior Caminero had the biggest of the five hits in their nine-batter seventh inning, a three-run homer. He then doubled in two runs in the eighth as part of a career-high six-RBI night.

But it really was a team effort, as all nine players in the starting lineup had at least one hit and they batted around in two innings in getting 23 men o

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