A pair of rookies stole the game and ended the Blue Jays’ winning streak at six games as they fell 2-1 to the Tampa Bay Rays at George Steinbrenner Field Wednesday.

Chandler Simpson, 24, led off the bottom of the first inning with a double and scored the game’s first run, then plated the winning run with a two-out RBI single in the eighth, but what he did in between those two hits may have topped both those feats.

With two on in the top of the fourth inning and the Rays up 1-0, Simpson raced back to the wall in dead centre, leapt and reached over the fence to take a three-run home run away from Alejandro Kirk. The potentially game-changing blast instead wound up being just a 407-foot sacrifice fly.

The Jays managed only one hit after that frame. No comeback magic this time.

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