ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -AP- Steve Pearce hit one of four Tampa Bay homers, a go-ahead three-run shot in the sixth inning, and the Rays beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-5 on Wednesday night.Brandon Guyer, Steven Souza Jr. and Curt Casali added solo home runs for the Rays, who went 4-4 on an eight-game homestand.Pearce chased Alex Wood (1-3) with his third homer this season to put Tampa Bay ahead 5-2. Pearce has all three over a 17 at-bat span. 
Guyer homered in the first. Casali went deep during a three-run seventh as the Rays took an 8-2 lead.Ramirez (5-1) went two scoreless innings to get the win. Alex Colomepitched the ninth and picked up his sixth save.The Rays entered hitting a majors-low .221, but have 34 homers. 47 of their 90 runs have scored on home runs.Los Angeles scored three runs in the eighth after loading the bases with no outs to cut the deficit to 8-5. Chase Utley and Corey Seagerboth drove in a run with a walk, and Joc Pederson had a sacrifice fly.Wood allowed five runs and six hits, including three homers, in five-plus innings. He had given up just one homer over 28 innings this year entering the game.After the Dodgers tied it on a fourth-inning RBI single by Yasmani Grandal, Souza put the Rays up 2-1 in the bottom of the inning on his sixth homer.Souza is 3 for his last 23, including 12 strikeouts. He left the game during an at-bat in the sixth due to a spasm in his pectoral muscle.Los Angeles pulled even at 2 during the sixth when Yasiel Puig scored on reliever Erasmo Ramirez's wild pitch.Drew Smyly allowed two runs and five hits over five-plus innings for the Rays.
Guyer homered in the first. Casali went deep during a three-run seventh as the Rays took an 8-2 lead.Ramirez (5-1) went two scoreless innings to get the win. Alex Colomepitched the ninth and picked up his sixth save.The Rays entered hitting a majors-low .221, but have 34 homers. 47 of their 90 runs have scored on home runs.Los Angeles scored three runs in the eighth after loading the bases with no outs to cut the deficit to 8-5. Chase Utley and Corey Seagerboth drove in a run with a walk, and Joc Pederson had a sacrifice fly.Wood allowed five runs and six hits, including three homers, in five-plus innings. He had given up just one homer over 28 innings this year entering the game.After the Dodgers tied it on a fourth-inning RBI single by Yasmani Grandal, Souza put the Rays up 2-1 in the bottom of the inning on his sixth homer.Souza is 3 for his last 23, including 12 strikeouts. He left the game during an at-bat in the sixth due to a spasm in his pectoral muscle.Los Angeles pulled even at 2 during the sixth when Yasiel Puig scored on reliever Erasmo Ramirez's wild pitch.Drew Smyly allowed two runs and five hits over five-plus innings for the Rays.
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