Miami, FL (Sports Network) - Carl Crawford homered twice and drove in five runs, and the Tampa Bay Rays scored 10 runs in the fifth inning en route to a 15-3 decimation of the Florida Marlins in the middle contest of their three- game set at Dolphin Stadium.

Evan Longoria went 3-for-6 with a homer, a double and three runs batted in for the Rays, winners of two straight, and seven of 10 overall. Ben Zobrist added a solo homer, and every Tampa Bay starter had a hit and scored a run.

In the midst of the offensive explosion, James Shields (5-5) tossed seven strong innings, holding the Marlins to a run on four hits, striking out five without issuing a walk.

"I thought I pitched well tonight," Shields said. "I mean, 15 runs in a game, it's a little easier to pitch that way. Definitely fun, fun doing that. Yeah, I scored a couple of runs. I was a little tired after that."

Marlins starter Ryan Tucker (2-2) was shelled in four-plus innings, allowing seven runs on eight hits in Florida's third straight loss. Reliever Eulogio De La Cruz was called up from Triple-A Albuquerque before the game and fared even worse, surrendering six runs -- five earned -- without recording an out.

Mike Jacobs homered for the Marlins, while Dan Uggla added an RBI.

Already leading 4-0, the Rays put the game out of reach in the top of the fifth, sending 14 batters to the plate in a 10-run explosion. The first nine batters reached base, and Tampa Bay never looked back.

Crawford started the inning with his second homer of the night, crushing a 2-2 pitch over the wall in right. After B.J. Upton walked and Eric Hinske plated him with a double, Tucker was pulled in favor of De La Cruz. The reliever got ahead of Longoria, 0-2, but left a change-up over the plate and it was launched over the scoreboard in left for an 8-0 lead.

"I just have to do a better job of executing," Tucker said. "It's just a bad game all around, I thought, for me. Definitely the worst Ive felt since Ive been here. Nothing was going where I wanted it to. Towards the end of the game I was getting real tired there."

Walks to Dioner Navarro and Gabe Gross followed by a Zobrist single loaded the bases, and two more runs came in to score when Hanley Ramirez botched Shields' grounder to short. Iwamura doubled off the wall in left to plate Shields and end De La Cruz's night. Logan Kensing came on and allowed a run-scoring groundout to Crawford and an RBI single to Upton. Longoria made it an even 10 runs with a bloop single for his third RBI of the inning. Kensing retired Navarro to end the frame, but the 4-0 lead had ballooned to an insurmountable 14-0 gap.

"Guys swung the bats well," Crawford said. "Nobody was giving up their at- bats. Even when we scored a bunch of runs, guys were still taking every at- bat like it was their last"

The teams traded solo homers down the stretch, with Jacobs connecting in the sixth and Zobrist countering in the eighth. Uggla picked up an RBI single in the eighth and Matt Treanor scored on Iwamura's error in the ninth to secure the final margin.

The Rays jumped in front in the third on Crawford's three-run blast. Shields led off with an infield single, and after Iwamura worked a walk, Crawford blasted a high fastball into the seats in right.

Tampa tacked on another run in the next frame, as Longoria led off with a double, moved to third on Navarro's infield single and scored when Gross slapped a single to left.