PHOENIX (AP) — Christopher Morel hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning and the Tampa Bay Rays rallied to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-4 on Thursday night.

Arizona led 4-3 before Yandy Diaz hit a tying run-scoring single off Ryne Nelson in the ninth.

Edwin Uceta (2-1) induced an inning-ending double play in the bottom half and Junior Caminero put the Rays ahead with a run-scoring double off J.P. Feyereisen (0-1) in the 10th. Morel made it 7-4 with his third homer and Pete Fairbanks worked around a walk for his fourth save.

Tim Tawa hit a solo homer for Arizona.

Diamondbacks starter Corbin Burnes was perfect until Diaz led off the fourth with a single and José Caballero hit a run-scoring double off him in the fifth. Burnes was pulled with one out in the sixth after he fumbled Caminero’s comebacker with a runner on third. He was replaced by Jalen Beeks, who gave up Morel’s run-scoring double to pull the Rays to 4-3.

Burnes allowed three runs — one earned — on three hits with eight strikeouts and three walks.

The Diamondbacks jumped on Rasmussen early.

Josh Naylor hit a run-scoring single in the first inning and Arizona scored two more off the right-hander in the second, on Thomas’ double and Corbin Carroll’s RBI groundout. Tawa led off the fifth with his fourth homer to put the Diamondbacks up 4-1.

Rasmussen allowed four runs on five hits and struck out five in five innings.

Key moment

Uceta snared Eugenio Suárez’s liner in the ninth to start an inning-ending double play.

Key stat

The Diamondbacks, one of baseball’s best defensive teams, had three errors.

Up next

Rays: RHP Shane Baz (2-0, 3.22 ERA) opens a three-game series at San Diego on Friday.

Diamondbacks: RHP Zac Gallen (1-3, 5.60) will pitch in the opener of a three-game series against Atlanta on Friday.

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Nate Schmidt scored his third goal in two games, Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 19 shots and the Florida Panthers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-0 on Thursday night to take a 2-0 lead in the first-round playoff series.

Sam Bennett added an empty-netter with 4 seconds left. Bobrovsky got his fourth career playoff shutout, and his first since Game 1 of last year’s Stanley Cup final against Edmonton.

Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 21 saves for Tampa Bay.

Game 3 of the best-of-seven series will be Saturday at Sunrise.

Schmidt, who scored twice in Game 1, got the Panthers on the scoreboard 4:15 into the game following an icing call against Tampa Bay. Aleksander Barkov won the faceoff clean back to Sam Reinhart who passed it over to Schmidt for a one-timer from the right circle that beat Vasilevskiy.

The goal came after Tampa Bay misfired on two open looks when Jake Guentzel was alone at the post and missed the net 53 seconds in, then Brayden Point was open between the hashmarks and put a backhand chance wide at 1:52.

The Lightning, who finished fifth in the league on the power play in the regular season, went 0 for 5 and were held to just two shots on goal on the advantages.

Barkov left the game midway through the third period after a hit from Brandon Hagel, who received a five-minute major for interference on the play at 9:51. Barkov did not return.

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The mayor of Minneapolis claims the city won’t put up money for arena construction.

Alex Rodriguez and Marc Loree will be taking full ownership of the National Basketball Association’s Minnesota Timberwolves and the Women’s National Basketball Association’s Minnesota Lynx shortly. Their first order of business is what to do about the aging arena the two teams use. The Minneapolis arena is going to celebrate its 35^th birthday in October and even though it has been renovated, 35 is a bad number in the arena business. The usefulness as a money generator is gone. Rodriguez and Loree want to keep the two businesses in Minneapolis but getting public money could a be problem. The public money could be used to help pay down a new venue’s debt. Minnesota is well acquainted with the stadium and arena game. For about seven decades taxpayers have thrown money into multiple use stadiums, a baseball stadium, a college football stadium, a National Football League stadium and arenas. After the market got an NBA expansion franchise in 1987 the expansion team ownership could not afford the expansion fee which was only $32 million and the cost of constructing the arena. The franchise owners were drowning in debt. The team was sold and in 1995, the city of Minneapolis took over the Timberwolves arena.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is on record saying the city won’t help with arena financing but that does not mean Minneapolis won’t be throwing money into a proposed arena. There are always other ways to give a helping hand to a sports team owner. If the Timberwolves ownership wants to build an arena-village, there are mechanisms that would allow them to keep all the tax money generated within the development or not pay property tax. Instead there is something called PILOT, payments in lieu of taxes, one lump sum payment generally way below market value. There are creative solutions available.

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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.