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TORONTO -- This is audition time for J. Tippy Martinez Jersey .A. Happ. The Toronto Blue Jays will be looking to improve the starting rotation ahead of next season and pitchers like Happ have a chance to show they belong as the disastrous 2013 campaign draws to a close. It did not go well for left-hander on Thursday night. Happ allowed four runs in 4 1-3 innings as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Blue Jays 4-3 to complete a three-game sweep. "Im just trying to prove to myself more than anything else," he said. "I hope to go out and finish strong." But twice he could not hold the lead on Thursday as the Blue Jays (67-79) lost despite four hits, including a home run, from Jose Reyes to go along with three hits from Moises Sierra. Kole Calhoun had two hits with a home run for the Angels (70-76) and right-hander Garrett Richards (7-6) pitched 6 2-3 innings to win his third straight decision. "He kept us in the game," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said of Happ. "The thing that bit us the last two nights is two times (Wednesday) night and two times tonight we take the lead and dont get the shut down inning and give it right back. Thats what kills you. Thats a huge part of baseball. "Were not throwing out our top-notch lineup right now, were scratching for runs, so our starters have got to step up. Weve got to find a way to get a shut down inning and we havent done that the last two games." Happ (4-6) lamented the missed opportunity to do just that. "You want to give your team a chance to win," he said. "We got the lead and gave it right back. Youd like to have some shutdown innings when we do get the lead like that." Richards allowed three runs on nine hits and a walk while striking out four as he improved to 4-1 in his last five outings. "He got a little better as the game went on," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "I didnt think Garrett was as sharp tonight ... but he had some movement on his fastball, which got him through. Still, he pitched deep into the game and in the middle innings there was no doubt his stuff picked up." Ernesto Frieri pitched the ninth for his 33rd save despite allowing a two-out double to Reyes and a walk to Munenori Kawasaki. Happ needed 87 pitches in his short outing as he surrendered six hits and two walks while striking out six. The Blue Jays opened the scoring in the first inning after Reyes and Kawasaki led off with singles. Reyes took third when Brett Lawrie grounded into a double play and scored on Adam Linds double to right. The Angels tied it in the second when Happ walked Chris Iannetta with two outs before surrendering singles to Calhoun and Grant Green. "I think the assumption is that I made bad pitches," Happ said. "But as I go look back at it, I try to be honest as I can with myself, and the breaking ball to Green in the second inning I would like to have that pitch back. But (I was) really trying to be aggressive out there and they found a way. Im going to keep working and try to figure this thing out but its tough." The Angels took a 2-1 lead in the third on a throwing error by Toronto centre-fielder Anthony Gose. Erick Aybar singled with one out, and after Mike Trout walked, Trumbo flied out to Gose, who made an ill-advised throw to third to try to catch Aybar. The throw short-hopped Lawrie and Aybar scored as Trout took second on the play. The Blue Jays took a 3-2 lead in their third when Reyes hit his 10th homer of the season on the first pitch to tie the game. Kawasaki and Sierra then doubled to put Toronto into the lead. But Calhoun tied it with one out in the fourth on his seventh homer of the season. After one-out doubles by Aybar and Trout gave the Angels a 4-3 lead in the fifth, Neil Wagner replaced Happ. Michael Kohn replaced Richards after Reyes doubled with two out in the seventh. Kohn walked Kawasaki before striking out Lawrie. Notes: Attendance at Rogers Centre was 20,767. ... Blue Jays 1B Edwin Encarnacion (left wrist sprain) missed his fourth consecutive game and is still listed as day to day. ... Blue Jays CF Colby Rasmus (left oblique strain) says he could return to the lineup this weekend. ... Blue Jays RHP Todd Redmond (3-2, 4.40 earned-run average) will start against Orioles RHP Bud Norris (10-11, 4.12 ERA) in Fridays opener of a three-game series against Baltimore at Rogers Centre. ... Trout scored his 100th and 101st runs in Wednesdays 5-4 win over the Blue Jays to become the third Angels player to record back-to-back seasons with at least 100 runs scored, joining Don Baylor and Troy Glaus. Baltimore Orioles Gear . Now, he might be their hottest pitcher. Lobstein earned up his first major league victory Sunday night, allowing one run in 5 2-3 innings in the Tigers 6-1 win over the San Francisco Giants. Fake Orioles Jerseys . The alley-oop looked easy -- just like everything else after halftime for the Miami Heat. James scored 32 points, Wade added 22 points and eight assists, and the Heat trailed by 11 early in the second half before running away to a 107-88 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night. https://www.cheaporioles.com/278i-frank-robinson-jersey-orioles.html . Viewers in the Canadiens region can watch the game on TSN at 7:30pm et/4:30pm pt and listen on TSN 690. The Canadiens have won three in a row and four of their last five games and recently put the finishing touches on a 3-1-0 road trip.TORONTO -- Sean Rodriguez sacrifice fly in the 10th inning gave Tampa Bay a 6-5 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday as the Rays recovered from blowing a 5-1 lead. The Rays came into the game having lost four of their last eight games, throwing away leads of 4-0, 4-0, 3-0 and 2-0 along the way. But they hung on for the win this time after mounting their own comeback. The Jays were down to their last strike when pinch-hitter John Mayberry Jr. hit a solo home run to send the game into extra innings tied 5-5. The ball just cleared the left-field fence to the delight of 28,633 with the roof open at the Rogers Centre. Mayberrys seventh home run of the season -- the previous six were with Philadelphia -- was his fourth pinch hit homer of the campaign and the seventh of his career. After doing the hard work in the ninth, the Jays laid an egg in the 10th. Reliever Brandon Morrow (1-3) put Toronto in a hole leaving men on first and third with no outs for left-hander Brett Cecil after a Wil Myers walk and Logan Forsythe single. Things got worse when Forsythe stole second and Yunel Escobar walked to load the bases. Myers scored on Rodriguezs sacrifice fly but Jays third baseman Danny Valencia cut down Forsythe at the home on an ensuing groundout to limit the damage. Brandon Gomes and Jeff Beliveau, with his first save, pitched the 10th for Tampa, following Jake McGee (5-2). Tampa outhit Toronto 14-7. The Rays had seemed on the way to victory, with starter Chris Archer restricting the Jays to one run on three hits over seven innings. But Adam Linds three-run homer in the eighth made things interesting, cutting the Rays lead to 5-4. Linds drive over the left-field fence scored Jose Reyes and Jose Bautista, who had both singled off Rays reliever Grant Balfour. It was Linds second home run in as many days after a career-high 36-game homer drought. Edwin Encarnacion, who had homered off Archer in the seventh, followed Linds sixth of the season with a drive to the warning track. Ben Zobrist, with his 10th of the season, and Escobar, with a blast off the Level of Excellence just below the .500 level of the Rogers Centre, homered for Tampa. Tampa wins the series 2-1 after blanking the Jays 1-0 in Friday nights opener. Toronto had won five of its last six and 10 of 13 since Aug. 30, during which time it has outscored the opposition 70-30. Escobar, a former Jay, was booed as he rounded the bases after his solo moonshot off Todd Redmond in the eighth. The shortstop rubbed salt in the wound with his trademark celebration as he crossed home plate after his seventh homer of the season. Archer set doown 10 in a row after loading the bases in the third. Fred Lynn Jersey. The streak ended when Encarnacion led off the bottom of the seventh with a home run to left-field. Encarnacions 32nd homer -- his second in as many days -- tied Bautista for the club lead. Archer struck out nine while walking three before giving way to Balfour, Joel Peralta and McGee. Tampa is 26-8 since the start of 2013 when Archer throws six innings or more and 4-15 when he doesnt. Archer came into the game with an 8.82 earned-run average in his last three outings. But apart from the slight wobble in the third, the right-hander mowed his way through the Jays and faced the minimum three batters in the first, second, fourth, fifth and sixth The six-foot-three right-hander feasted on the bottom four of the Toronto lineup, recording nine strikeouts and a flyout while yielding only a Valencia broken bat single against Colby Rasmus, Valencia, Ryan Goins, Anthony Gose and pinch hitter Dan Johnson. The bottom of the order has previously been a problem at times for Archer. No. 7 through 9 hitters have accounted for four of the 10 home runs he has conceded this season and had hit .286 against him compared to the league average of .241. The Jays had won Mark Buehrles five previous starts against Tampa this year, with the left-hander yielding a total of eight earned runs. It looked like more of the same as Buehrle retired the first six batters he faced before giving up four runs on seven hits in the third and four inning. Buehrle lasted six innings, giving up four runs on nine hits with one strikeout. The game was the 20th straight that Jays starters had gone six or more innings, erasing a club record set in 1998. But it did not come with a win this time as the offence slumbered, dropping Torontos record to 12-8 over that stretch. Rodriguez doubled to lead off the third then scored on a sacrifice fly and groundout before Zobrist homered to left field. Archer loaded the bases with a pair of two-out walks in the bottom of the third but escaped with a Lind flyout. The Rays went up 4-0 in the fourth after Evan Longoria singled and Bautista lost a Myers fly ball in the sun, turning an out into a double. Longoria scored on a groundout before a Ryan Hanigan RBI single added to the run count. Bautista had turned heads in the first inning with a sliding catch of a Guyer short fly ball. And he looked to have made another great play, racing to a Forsythe foul ball. But a fan beat him to it with a fine catch of his own, drawing boos when the play was shown on the big screen. There was a happy ending for the Jays as Forsythe, on review, was called out due to fan interference ' ' '