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BEIJING -- Canadas Kevin Koe had to settle for fourth place at the world mens curling championship after falling 7-5 to Switzerland in Sundays bronze-medal match. Koes Calgary rink came into the 10th end down by three, but couldnt muster the comeback, scoring just a single point in the final end against the Swiss team. Switzerland stole single points in the first two ends, and padded their lead with deuces in the sixth and ninth ends en route to the victory. "We definitely didnt want to lose that game," said lead Nolan Thiessen. "But after yesterday, it was tough to get fired up. But no excuses. They played better than us." Canada had two chances on Saturday to reach Sundays gold-medal game, but fell short to Norways Thomas Ulsrud in the 1-2 Page playoff game, and then to Swedens Oskar Eriksson in the semifinal. Ulsrud led from start to finish in defeating Sweden 8-3 to claim the gold medal later Sunday. "I thought we played well in the one-two game and the semi," sad Koe. "We were very close. But in games like that where the other teams are playing well, you have to make the last shot of the end sometimes and we let our chances slip away." Despite failing to medal at the world championships, Canadian coach Rick Lang says theres no reason to push any panic buttons, considering Canada has finished in the top six at every international curling event this season. "Twenty-four hours ago, we were within a shot or two of being in the final here," said Lang. "And then we have a bad 24 hours and that chat starts. But we had a great team here. They didnt play like themselves the last couple days, but they were worthy Brier champions. "We sent a great team here. They just didnt have a good day, and that can happen to anybody. The level of competition here is strong and getting stronger. We just have to answer the bell, thats all." Koe said he was proud of the way the team performed in Beijing. "Thats the way weve always done things," he said. 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The ball just cleared the left-field fence to the delight of 28,633 with the roof open at the Rogers Centre. Mayberrys seventh home run of the season -- the previous six were with Philadelphia -- was his fourth pinch hit homer of the campaign and the seventh of his career. After doing the hard work in the ninth, the Jays laid an egg in the 10th. Reliever Brandon Morrow (1-3) put Toronto in a hole leaving men on first and third with no outs for left-hander Brett Cecil after a Wil Myers walk and Logan Forsythe single. Things got worse when Forsythe stole second and Yunel Escobar walked to load the bases. Myers scored on Rodriguezs sacrifice fly but Jays third baseman Danny Valencia cut down Forsythe at the home on an ensuing groundout to limit the damage. Brandon Gomes and Jeff Beliveau, with his first save, pitched the 10th for Tampa, following Jake McGee (5-2). Tampa outhit Toronto 14-7. The Rays had seemed on the way to victory, with starter Chris Archer restricting the Jays to one run on three hits over seven innings. But Adam Linds three-run homer in the eighth made things interesting, cutting the Rays lead to 5-4. Linds drive over the left-field fence scored Jose Reyes and Jose Bautista, who had both singled off Rays reliever Grant Balfour. It was Linds second home run in as many days after a career-high 36-game homer drought. Edwin Encarnacion, who had homered off Archer in the seventh, followed Linds sixth of the season with a drive to the warning track. Ben Zobrist, with his 10th of the season, and Escobar, with a blast off the Level of Excellence just below the .500 level of the Rogers Centre, homered for Tampa. Tampa wins the series 2-1 after blanking the Jays 1-0 in Friday nights opener. Toronto had won five of its last six and 10 of 13 since Aug. 30, during which time it has outscored the opposition 70-30. Escobar, a former Jay, was booed as he rounded the bases after his solo moonshot off Todd Redmond in the eighth. The shortstop rubbed salt in the wound with his trademark celebration as he crossed home plate after his seventh homer of the season. Archer set doown 10 in a row after loading the bases in the third.dddddddddddd The streak ended when Encarnacion led off the bottom of the seventh with a home run to left-field. Encarnacions 32nd homer -- his second in as many days -- tied Bautista for the club lead. Archer struck out nine while walking three before giving way to Balfour, Joel Peralta and McGee. Tampa is 26-8 since the start of 2013 when Archer throws six innings or more and 4-15 when he doesnt. Archer came into the game with an 8.82 earned-run average in his last three outings. But apart from the slight wobble in the third, the right-hander mowed his way through the Jays and faced the minimum three batters in the first, second, fourth, fifth and sixth The six-foot-three right-hander feasted on the bottom four of the Toronto lineup, recording nine strikeouts and a flyout while yielding only a Valencia broken bat single against Colby Rasmus, Valencia, Ryan Goins, Anthony Gose and pinch hitter Dan Johnson. The bottom of the order has previously been a problem at times for Archer. No. 7 through 9 hitters have accounted for four of the 10 home runs he has conceded this season and had hit .286 against him compared to the league average of .241. The Jays had won Mark Buehrles five previous starts against Tampa this year, with the left-hander yielding a total of eight earned runs. It looked like more of the same as Buehrle retired the first six batters he faced before giving up four runs on seven hits in the third and four inning. 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