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Gomez creates splash on 1st career walk-off HR

ST. PETERSBURG -- Carlos Gomez delivered a two-run walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth to give the Rays an 8-6 win over the Twins on Sunday afternoon at Tropicana Field.

The Rays swept their weekend series and have now won four games in a row and five of their last six.

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C.J. Cron singled to lead off the ninth, then Gomez hit his third homer of the year on the first pitch he saw from Twins right-hander Addison Reed.

Cron staked the Rays to a 2-0 lead with a two-run homer in the first, his fifth homer of the season and his third in the last two games.