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Top rookie takes over as Rangers edge Blue Jays

TORONTO -- Nomar Mazara hit a go-ahead home run in the top of the eighth and made a game-saving outfield assist in the bottom half of the inning to lead the Rangers over the Blue Jays, 2-1, at Rogers Centre on Monday night, the first meeting between the two teams since last year's American League Division Series.

Fresh off winning AL Rookie of the Month honors after a stellar April, in which he hit .333 with two home runs and seven RBIs, Mazara took a cutter from Gavin Floyd and sent it over the center-field wall to break a 1-1 deadlock.