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TORONTO -- After the final out, thats when things really heated up between the Toronto Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Rays.Both benches and bullpens cleared after the Blue Jays wrapped up a 3-2 win Monday night, and the skirmish got settled without anyone throwing punches.After Steven Souza Jr. hit a liner to center for the last out, he traded words with Russell Martin, misunderstanding the Toronto catchers praise for his hard-hit drive as criticism.The situation escalated when Blue Jays shortstop Troy Tulowitzki joined the fray with some choice words for Souza.Troy decided to jump in and say some things that werent really necessary, Souza said.Martin said Tulowitzki kind of came in there and just kind of blew up in (Souzas) face.Cooler heads soon prevailed, and Souza sorted things out with Martin before everyone left the field.Were fine, Martin said. Theres no bad blood or anything.Ezequiel Carrera connected for a tiebreaking, pinch-hit home run in the eighth inning. Jose Bautista added a two-run homer as the Blue Jays improved to 3-7 in September and moved one game ahead of Baltimore in the AL wild-card race.The Orioles lost 12-2 at division-leading Boston. The Red Sox are two games ahead of Toronto.Jason Grilli (5-3) pitched one inning and Roberto Osuna got his 32nd save.Carrera replaced Darwin Barney to face incoming reliever Brad Boxberger (3-1). Carrera homered on the right-handers first pitch.He did it in a big way, manager John Gibbons said.Boxberger said he was surprised Carreras ball ended up a home run.It was down and away, good pitch, Boxberger said. When a ball you think is just going to be a lazy fly ball all of a sudden goes out you kind of just have to laugh it off.Carrera was the batter the last time Toronto got a pinch-hit homer, on July 25, 2015, at Seattle.Blue Jays left-hander Francisco Liriano opened the game by giving up a leadoff single to Logan Forsythe, then retired the next 14 batters. Souza broke the streak with a two-out walk in the fifth but Liriano fanned Richie Shaffer to end the inning.He was cruising, Souza said of Liriano. He was throwing everything kind of where he wanted to, down in the zone.Bautista gave Toronto a 2-0 lead with a two-out homer off Jake Odorizzi in the sixth. For Bautista, it was his first extra-base hit since homering at Baltimore on Aug. 31.Evan Longoria homered on Lirianos first pitch in the seventh and Brad Miller followed by homering on a 1-0 slider. It was the third time this season the Rays have hit back-to-back homers and the second time theyve done it on their current road trip.TO ERR IS...Toronto has made at least one error in a season-worst six consecutive games. 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STILLWATER, Okla. -- An explosive offense was a key component of No. 22 Oklahoma States season-opening 61-7 blowout over Southeastern Louisiana on Saturday.The Cowboys also received significant contributions from their special teams unit and defense.The bonus for Oklahoma State is that most observers expected the offense, which ranked 22nd in the nation with 480 yards per game last season, to be potent. There was considerably less optimism about the other aspects of the game, particularly the defense, which surrendered 439.1 yards per game in 2015, 99th in the country.Getting contributions from all three phases was in line with coach Mike Gundys pre-game wish list.Weve talked about todays football, in our opinion, is the offense being able to get big plays; trying to find a way to establish some sort of a run; control the ball as best you can; be sound in special teams; try to get one big play in special teams; and defensively, try to force turnovers, Gundy said. Defenses are going to give up yards, defenses are going to give up points, so you minimize it and try to force turnovers to give yourself more opportunities for your offense to be on the field. Thats really the direction that were moving as a team.On special teams, freshman Madre Harper scored the first touchdown 1:45 into the contest, when he recovered a fumble by Southeastern Louisiana punt returner Javon Tillman in the end zone.A true freshman, playing his first play, in a defensive role, scores an offensive touchdown, Gundy said. That may be one for the record books.That set the tone for the rest of the contest, with the defense pitching in just three plays later. Cole Walterscheid forced Lions quarterback DShaie Landors fumble, with OSUs Tre Flowers recovering. Four plays on offense after that, Oklahoma State led 14-0 when Chris Carson scored on a 14-yard rush.That was the first of three fumbles forced and recovered by the Oklahoma State defense, all of which ultimately resulted in touchdowns. One was a highlight-reel play forced by Devante Averette, who dived to keep to keep the ball in bounds before Ramon Richardds grabbed it and carried it the remaining 9 yards into the end zone 22 seconds into the second half.dddddddddddd.Turnovers are really important, especially in the Big 12, when you have 70-80 plays a game, Richards said. We have to give our offense the maximum opportunities as possible. In practice, we stress turnovers a lot, so going into the game, thats something that we have in our heads.The defense also limited Southeastern Louisiana to 203 yards, yielding one touchdown on a 26-yard run by Kaelyn Henderson after OSU was already ahead 31-0. The Cowboys also had three sacks and 12 tackles for loss.In addition to Harpers opening touchdown, the special teams effort included a 57-yard punt return by Barry J. Sanders late in the first quarter. He was forced out of bounds at the 1-yard-line.The Cowboys special teams came up with another big play when Vincent Taylor blocked a field goal attempt early in the third quarter.While Gundy claimed credit for Sanders near-TD punt return, he also praised new special teams coordinator Steve Hauser.Coach Hauser does a great job, Gundy said. Weve been very lucky that weve had young coaches that have come in here and taken our special teams over. Great commitment and dedication to what they do, very intelligent guys. Hauser did a nice job.The combined result of the defensive and special teams excellence was an average field position start at the OSU 47 yard-line, with seven drives beginning in Lions territory and four inside the red zone.Four turnovers, those fourth-down stops are huge, and the blocked kick -- really, there were eight instances where we had instant field position change for our offense, said OSU defensive coordinator Glenn Spencer. Thats big. Its all about what we can do for this team.Oklahoma State would like a repeat performance next Saturday at home against Central Michigan (1-0), a team it fought hard to defeat 24-13 a year ago on the road.---AP college football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '