Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Akinori Iwamura went 2-for-5 with two runs batted in and one run scored, as the Tampa Bay Rays edged the Toronto Blue Jays, 5-4, in the opener of a three-game set from the Rogers Centre.

B.J. Upton had two hits and drove in a run for the Rays, who ended their three-game skid. Eric Hinske had a double and a solo home run, while Carl Crawford accounted for the other Tampa Bay RBI.

Andy Sonnanstine (5-1) went six innings and gave up four runs on 10 hits with two strikeouts and one walk, but still got the win. Dan Wheeler threw two innings and gave up just one walk, and Troy Percival got his seventh save of the year as he threw a perfect ninth.

"I stuck with the fastball even though there were some fastballs that got hit pretty hard," Sonnanstine said. "I was battling all night, the slider was probably the best pitch tonight, but I think I used the majority of fastballs."

Lyle Overbay went 2-for-2 with two RBI for Toronto, which saw its five-game unbeaten streak halted. Vernon Wells and Gregg Zaun both collected a pair of hits in defeat.

"He mixes his pitches, he mixes his fastball's speeds," Overbay said of Sonnanstine. "He locates in certain situations more than a lot of pitchers."

David Eckstein was removed from the game after the fourth inning due to an aggravated right groin strain.

John McDonald was sent in to replace Eckstein, but as he was running for a ground ball hit by Gabe Gross in the sixth inning, he went down clutching his right ankle and had to be carted off the field.

Marco Scutaro became the third shortstop on the Blue Jays' lineup card.

A.J. Burnett (3-3) got the loss after he was touched for five runs on nine hits in six frames on the hill. Burnett did fan 10 batters and only walk one.

Wells started the sixth inning off with a single. Overbay followed with a double off the top of the wall in center field to score Wells and cut the deficit to one run.

Percival came on in the ninth and got Zaun to pop-out, Scutaro to strike out on a foul tip and Alex Rios to fly out to center to end the game.

The Rays got on the board first. Dioner Navarro began the surge in the third with a single and Gross walked, before a one-out wild pitch made it second and third. Iwamura then singled to plate Navarro, and Crawford offered a sac fly to score Gross which moved Iwamura to second. Upton singled up the middle, allowing Iwamura to cross home, and the Rays were up 3-0 in the middle of the third.

The Blue Jays got some runs back in the home third. Zaun led off with a single and touched home on Eckstein's double. Rios went down swinging, but Shannon Stewart made it first and third with a single. Scott Rolen followed by belting a sac fly to the warning track in center, Eckstein trotted home and Toronto cut it to 3-2.

Toronto knotted it up in the fourth. Wells led off with a triple and scored on an Overbay sac fly.

Tampa reclaimed the lead, 4-3, in the fifth. Jason Bartlett got things going with a single and scored on Iwamura's double.

Hinske added a solo shot in the sixth, and Tampa's lead was 5-3.