Young and Upton homer in ninth as Rays top Jays

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09/09/2007 - St. Petersburg, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Delmon Young and pinch-hitter B.J. Upton both lofted two-run homers off Blue Jays closer Jeremy Accardo in the ninth inning to give the Tampa Bay Devil Rays a 5-4 victory over Toronto at Tropicana Field.

The win by Tampa Bay spoiled an impressive outing from Toronto starter A.J. Burnett, who went eight complete innings - just one night after Jays starter Dustin McGowan went eight for the win - allowing only one earned run on three hits, striking out eight and walking just one.

Carl Crawford led off the ninth by reaching on an error by shortstop John McDonald, then took second on defensive indifference. Young then blasted an Accardo fastball over the fence in right-center to trim the lead to 4-3.

Accardo (4-4) got Brendan Harris to ground to second, but walked Jonny Gomes to bring Upton - scratched from the original starting lineup - to the plate with two outs in a one-run game. Upton then lined the first pitch he saw from Accardo just over the right field fence, giving the Rays a thrilling comeback win.

Al Reyes (2-2) picked up the decision in relief after tossing a scoreless top half of the ninth, striking out a pair.

Tampa starter Jason Hammel lasted six innings, allowing two earned runs on five hits, striking out one and walking two.

Young finished 2-for-4 on the night, and Dioner Navarro had a solo home run for the Rays, who have won eight of 11.

Alex Rios finished the night 1-for-3 after his 23rd homer of the season, and Vernon Wells and Matt Stairs also knocked in a run apiece.

Toronto has lost three of its last five.

Tampa Bay got on the board in the second when Navarro launched a two-out shot to right, his eighth of the season.

Toronto then took a 2-1 lead in the sixth on Rios' two-run homer, which scored Stairs, who led off with a single.

The Jays tallied again in the seventh against Rays reliever Grant Balfour, beginning when Aaron Hill beat out an infield single and Gregg Zaun followed with a single to left. John McDonald then moved the runners with a sacrifice bunt, and Vernon Wells plated Hill with a chopped single through the drawn-in infield. Stairs then scored Zaun on a sac fly to left for a 4-1 count.

Game Notes

Upton was removed from the original starting lineup with an ankle injury, and did not enter the game until his pinch-hitting appearance...Accardo blew his fifth save of the season (27-for-32)...Burnett remains 6-1 in 12 career starts against the Devil Rays...Hammel has received a pair of no-decision in his only two starts against Toronto.

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FOOTBALL BETTING : Crabtree's base deal: six years, $32 million

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In the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree.

And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so.

Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal.

So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them.

Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.)

The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money.

As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached.

The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs.

In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season.

Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done.

And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting.

So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year.

There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve.

So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal.

And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million.

There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.)

Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft.

Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey.

Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year.

So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation.

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