CHICAGO — Saturday was looking like another one of those kind of days for the Tampa Bay Rays.

They rallied from an early three-run deficit only to see arguably their best reliever, Garrett Cleavinger, give up a two-out homer in the seventh to Michael Busch.

Then, after Junior Caminero got them even by hitting his 43rd homer to lead off the eighth, it looked like they might blow it again before Brian Baker got them out of the inning.

But ultimately, Nick Fortes delivered the biggest hit, a 421-foot home run to open the ninth, leading them to a 5-4 win.

Closer Pete Fairbanks had a hand in it, too, pitching into and out of a ninth-inning jam for his 26th save. He allowed the first two Chicago Cubs to reach base but retired the next three.

The win halted the Rays’ second three-game skid i

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