TAMPA -- When Junior Caminero reported to Spring Training, he had an ambitious objective in mind. The slugging third baseman wanted to hit 30 home runs. For all the former top prospect’s talents, that mark had only been reached 18 times in the Rays’ first 27 seasons. To reach that goal at such a young age, in his first full season, would be special.

As it turns out, Caminero should have aimed higher. Quite a bit higher.

Caminero became only the second player in franchise history to hit 40 home runs in a single season on Tuesday night, crushing a game-tying homer off Seattle starter Bryan Woo in the sixth inning. And he wasn’t done.

In the seventh, Caminero knocked a tiebreaking two-run double down the left-field line, giving him 100 RBIs on the season and sending the Rays to a 6-5 wi

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