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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.

Another rookie, left-hander Ian Seymour, handcuffed the Jays through seven innings in the longest outing of his career, holding them to just four hits. The only run he allowed was unearned, Davis Schneider having gone to third when yet another rookie, shortstop Carson Williams, threw away what should have been a double-play ball off the bat of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Schneider wound up scoring on the Kirk sac fly.

The Jays, who had averaged six runs per game over the six-game win streak, were held to just the one.

Kevin Gausman held the Rays in check through six innings after giving up the first-inning run 鈥� Simpson’s leadoff double was cashed by a Yandy Diaz single.

The right-hander, who threw a complete game two-hit shutout at the Houston Astros in his last start, allowed just that one run on six hits over six innings of work, handing it over to Yariel Rodriguez, who got two quick outs to begin the seventh.

But Williams, the ninth-place hitter, ripped a double to the gap in left-centre and Simpson followed with a tie-breaking ground single up the middle.

Seymour and relievers Edwin Uceta and Pete Fairbanks combined to retire the final dozen Jays who came to the plate.

The Blue Jays only had one at-bat with runners in scoring position (the Kirk sac fly doesn’t count as an at-bat), and it was when Addison Barger came up with runners at second and third and two out in the fourth in a 1-1 tie.

Barger hit a pop-up to shallow left that Williams hauled in, almost colliding with left fielder Christopher Morel.

The start of the game was delayed 20 minutes by rain and there was a further delay of about 20 minutes before the start of the bottom of the first inning when home plate umpire Brian O’Nora had to leave the game because of a stomach illness. First base ump Mike Estabrook took over behind the plate and the remainder of the game was played with only three umpires.

It was after waiting out the second delay that Gausman gave up the back-to-back hits and the game’s first run.

The loss drops the Jays to 3-6 against the Rays this season and, with Cleveland winning, their magic number to clinch a playoff spot remains three.