TORONTO -- John Gibbons liked the Blue Jays chances after they belted three home runs and built a 4-1 lead in the early going against the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner. Unfortunately for the Toronto manager, the Tampa Bay Rays were also zoned in at Rogers Centre. Ben Zobrist, Wil Myers, Evan Longoria and Kelly Johnson each hit solo homers off Blue Jays starter Esmil Rogers to help David Price pick up his fourth win of the season Friday as Tampa Bay defeated Toronto 8-5 in a game that looked a lot like this weeks home run derby. "In this ballpark the ball flies. Once its elevated it goes a long way," said Gibbons, whose team got solo home runs from Edwin Encarnacion, J.P. Arencibia and Brett Lawrie, to go along with a two-run shot from Jose Bautista. "We do the same thing on offence on our side." Price (4-5), who is now 7-0 in eight career starts in Toronto, gave up four runs on seven hits over seven innings. The 2012 AL Cy Young Award winner also struck out five and gave up one walk after surviving a rocky start. "We score four off Price -- you feel pretty good about it when you do that," Gibbons said. "He hangs around. He goes deep in the game every night but you feel pretty good if you can get four off him." Ryan Roberts had the go-ahead RBI in the eighth inning and scored an insurance run for red-hot Tampa Bay (56-41), which sits second in the AL East coming out of the all-star break. "We were playing the best ball we had up to this point of the year leading up to the all-star break," Price said. "To have that four-day break, you dont want it to mess up the momentum that the team has and just the winning feeling we have in the clubhouse and in the dugout. That was a big win for us tonight, we hit on all cylinders." Brett Cecil (3-1) suffered his first loss of 2013 for the Blue Jays (45-50), who remain cemented in the AL East basement and started the unofficial second half of the season with a thud. Adding to Torontos misery was the fact that the Rays scored four runs off a Toronto bullpen that has been one of the clubs lone bright sports. All-stars Cecil and Steve Delabar couldnt keep the score tied 4-4 in the eighth as Roberts singled home Johnson before coming around on Desmond Jennings double to give the Rays a two-run lead. "Theyve been so good," Gibbons said of his relievers. "They cant be perfect all year long." Toronto put two runners on in the eighth, but Colby Rasmus hit a lazy flyball to left to end the threat. The Rays then scored two more in the ninth before Lawrie added the games eighth home run, his sixth of the campaign, as a consolation. Rogers gave up the four solo homers on seven hits to go along with four strikeouts over 5 2-3 innings. In two starts against Tampa Bay this season, the right-hander has allowed seven solo homers. Despite the trouble with the long ball, Gibbons said his starter pitched well. "That was kind of a funny game for him. When he was on, he was dominating, and then of course the four solo home runs," said Gibbons, who didnt think Rogers was tipping his pitches to Rays. "He never really got into trouble, it was just the solo home runs." With thunderstorm and tornado warnings issued across Southern Ontario, the crowd of 33,266 inside the sealed-shut and steamy Rogers Centre saw a home run bonanza early on. Price, who has had an up-and-down season that included 47 days on the disabled list with a triceps strain, now has 13 career victories against Toronto in 17 starts, the most against any opponent. But it wasnt easy for the 27-year-old left-hander in the early going. After Encarnacion gave Toronto a 1-0 lead with his 26th homer of the season into the second deck in left in the bottom of the first, Zobrist tied the score with a solo shot of his own in the top of the third. Arencibia hit Torontos second solo homer in the bottom of the inning, this one to straight away centre field for his 17th of the season. Reyes then singled with one out and stole second before Price surrendered Bautistas 21st homer, a two-run shot to right-centre that gave Toronto a 4-1 lead. "I thought he kept getting better," Rays manager Joe Maddon said of Price. "He wasnt bad at the beginning, he just threw it in a couple of bad spots." The Blue Jays could have blown the game wide open after loading the bases with two outs, but Rasmus popped out to end the threat. Tampa Bay would make them pay dearly. Myers made it 4-2 with a solo shot to right in the top of the fourth, his fourth home run of the season. It was Myers second against Rogers, who gave up back-to-back-to-back homers, including one to the rookie, in Tampa Bays 4-1 victory on June 24 that snapped Torontos 11-game winning streak. Longoria hit the most impressive home run of the night in the sixth to cut Torontos lead to one with a moonshot off the facing of the third deck in left for his 19th. Then Johnson tied the score 4-4 with the Rays fourth solo home run, this time to right field for his 14th. "A couple mistakes," Rogers said. "Here in this league, you pay." Notes: Carlos Delgado signed autographs prior to the game in the fan zone outside the stadium. The former Blue Jays first baseman will be inducted into the teams Level of Excellence prior to Sundays series finale. Delgado, who played 1,423 games with Toronto, is the franchise leader in doubles (343), home runs (336), RBIs (1,058) and walks (827). ... 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The Angels have determined Pujols wont need surgery on his foot, which has bothered him all season. The three-time NL MVP partially tore those sore muscle fibers last weekend after running out a single in Oakland. Many assumed the sluggers season was finished with the Angels mired in their second disappointing season since the longtime St. Louis star joined the roster. Pujols could use the extra two months of off-season to rest his foot for spring training, when hell be 34 years old with eight seasons left on the third-largest contract in baseball history. Not so, Pujols claims. Although hell be in a walking boot for another three weeks, he hopes to return when cleared. "Stuff like this, youve just got to rest it, and hopefully it gets better," Pujols said. "I know its going to get better, because over the weekend I was feeling good. And pain-wise, to tell you the truth, from a scale of zero to 10, its probably about 1. I was playing at 7 or 8 in the season, so its really something thats just going to take some time, and Im just going to see how it feels every day." Pujols said he wants to return for the final weeks even if the season is essentially over for the Angels (48-58). Los Angeles has lost six straight to fall 14 games out of first place in the AL West, its playoff hopes already flickering with two months left in the season.dddddddddddd "I get paid to play this game," Pujols said. "I was already playing (at) 45 per cent (effectiveness) this year. Even if I feel 55 per cent that I can come back and play, Im going to be out there and playing, because I love this game and I grew up playing this game, and Im going to do the best I can to help this organization win." The Angels, 11 games out of the final AL playoff spot, opened a seven-game homestand against Toronto and Texas on Thursday night. Angels manager Mike Scioscia could use Pujols bat in the lineup, but hes more cautious about the possibility of seeing Pujols in uniform again this season. "Right now, its a significant injury that Albert has," Scioscia said. "How fast it heals or how it happens is not in anybodys hands. Weve just got to evaluate it and see where it is, but I know when Albert feels he can play baseball, he wants to play baseball. Obviously, its too far down the road to really even contemplate." Pujols injury forced him to start at designated hitter in 65 of his 99 games this season. Hes batting .258 with 17 homers and 64 RBIs, likely meaning hell finish with fewer than 30 homers for the first time in his 13-season major league career. Pujols has never played in fewer than 143 games in a major league season, but the slugger with 492 career homers still hopes to add a few more in the final weeks, even if the Angels are headed to their fourth straight year out of the playoffs. "Theres no doubt he was at times struggling with some of the basics you need to hit (and) play the field," Scioscia said. "We took him off the field just to keep him comfortable in the batters box. We can see it, we can estimate, but Albert felt it every day. In the batters box, we could tell he was hurting." ' ' '