ST. PETERSBURG -- After the Blue Jays jumped out to a 6-0 lead, the Rays scored seven unanswered runs, including a walk-off wild pitch in the 10th inning to edge Toronto, 7-6, on Tuesday at Tropicana Field.

While Kevin Kiermaier scoring on the wild pitch took center stage, giving the Rays their third walk-off win of the season, Tampa Bay made a lot of key plays to help it earn its 66th win.

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Let’s take a look at three key moments that helped the Rays come away with the comeback win.

Tropicana Field Derby
With Tampa Bay’s offense needing a spark after being shut out for the first 12 innings of the series, Avisaíl García delivered it with a two-run home run off Blue Jays starter Trent Thornton to cut the Rays' deficit to 6-2 in the fourth. Garcia blasted a 2-0 slider and quickly looked at his bench and pounded his chest.

“It helped,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “We needed a lot more than that, but certainly it helped. All [of the homers] were big.”

Garcia’s home run ended up being the first of three two-run homers the Rays hit off Thornton in the inning. Willy Adames followed suit, blasting his 15th home run of the season on a 1-2 slider that hung over the middle of the plate to cut the deficit to two runs.

“I was trying to put the ball in play there,” Adames said. “I wasn’t trying to hit a home run. I wanted to put the ball in play there. I wanted to get on base and get in a good position with men in scoring position. I was just happy I hit it out and made the game closer.”

Adames and Garcia helped the Rays cut the gap, and then it was Austin Meadows who added the exclamation point with the final two-run home run of the inning, a projected 447-foot blast that hit the scoreboard in right field to pull Tampa Bay even at 6.

“Austin Meadows has my number,” Thornton said. “I’m going to have to figure something out to get him out the next time I pitch against him.”

Before the Rays came up to bat in the inning, FanGraphs gave them a 5.2 percent chance of winning the game. After the three home runs, that number increased to 51.3 percent.

Pagan gets out of a jam
Tampa Bay's bullpen played a big role in the win, limiting the Blue Jays to just one earned run over eight innings. Emilio Pagán came up biggest when the team needed him to put another zero on the scoreboard.

After striking out Teoscar Hernandez to start the top of the ninth inning, Pagan ran into trouble, allowing a single to Brandon Drury and a double to Danny Jansen to put the go-ahead run just 90 feet away.

That set up a matchup with Bo Bichette, who has been one of the hottest hitters in the American League since making his debut on July 29. Pagan recorded the second out of the inning by getting Bichette to strike out swinging at a 96 mph fastball.

Pagan followed by striking out Cavan Biggio on three consecutive fastballs to end the inning.

“In that situation, I was kind of trying to get a lazy fly ball or swings and misses,” Pagan said. “My fastball is probably my best shot at that. I knew that if I got it up in a good spot in the zone, that it’s been a pitch he’s struggled with. … I was able to get some good pitches in some good spots and got the swings and misses.”

Kiermaier’s hustle double
Before scoring the game-winning run, Kiermaier got the rally started in the 10th inning with a hustle double to right field. Kiermaier, who has made turning a routine single into a double a regular occurrence, had a sprint speed of 29.6 mph, which is well above average. It took Kiermaier just 7.37 seconds to go from home to second base, which is the fourth-fastest mark in the Major Leagues this season.

“Right out of the box, I saw [right fielder Randal] Grichuk really sprinting over from far away, and I knew I had it right away,” Kiermaier said. “I really liked my chances, and I knew there wasn’t going to be a play, so anytime extra innings happen, getting on base [as] the first hitter, it’s huge. But especially if you could lead off the inning with an extra-base hit, that’s even better.”

Matt Duffy drew a walk, and Adames reached first base on a bunt attempt on which the Blue Jays tried, unsuccessfully, to get Kiermaier at third. Toronto reliever Buddy Boshers struck out pinch-hitter Tommy Pham and Travis d’Arnaud and got to a 2-2 count on Meadows, but his wild pitch let Kiermaier cross the plate.

“You can sit here and pinpoint so many different things throughout the whole game, but such a great team effort and there’s just no quit in these guys,” Kiermaier said. “The comebacks in Toronto a couple of weeks ago and then Boston, that’s a lot of fun to be a part of. We’re going to go on a tear to end the season. I can feel it, and this is so much fun to be a part of.”