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TORONTO -- After Devon Travis came within a few feet of a game-winning home run, he found a different way to circle the bases.Travis scored the winning run on a wild pitch, and the Toronto Blue Jays rallied for three runs in the 12th inning to beat the San Diego Padres 7-6 on Tuesday night.Matt Kemp put the Padres in front with a two-run homer off Jesse Chavez (1-2) in the top of the 12th, but San Diegos bullpen couldnt hold the lead.Travis drew a 14-pitch walk to load the bases, bringing Paul Clemens on in relief of Carlos Villanueva (1-2). Travis fouled off eight straight pitches, including one drive that sailed just wide of the left-field foul screen.Thats as good as it gets, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said.Clemens walked Jose Bautista to make it 6-5 before Josh Donaldson tied it with a fielders choice grounder.With Edwin Encarnacion batting, a pitch bounced away from catcher Derek Norris, and Travis slid in headfirst just ahead of the tag as his teammates stormed out of the dugout to celebrate.I know (Clemens) has a really good curveball, a really sharp one, Travis said. I was praying for in the dirt. It took a bad bounce, but a good bounce for us.Gibbons called it a crazy game.Im proud of the guys, he said. They keep gutting it out, competing.It was the second key run to score on a wild pitch: Toronto catcher Russell Martin made it 4-all when he scored on Brad Hands wild pitch in the seventh.It is a frustrating loss, especially how hard the guys battled back on a couple of occasions, Padres manager Andy Green said.Donaldson hit a two-run homer and Justin Smoak had a solo shot for the Blue Jays.Alex Dickerson hit a three-run shot, his third homer in three games, as San Diego extended its club-record streak of games with at least one home run to 24. Its the longest run since the 2002 Texas Rangers set a major league record by homering in 27 straight.Donaldson connected off Andrew Cashner in the first, his 25th, but San Diego halved the deficit on Ryan Schimpfs RBI double in the second.Smoaks leadoff homer in the fifth put Toronto up 3-1, but Marcus Stroman couldnt hold the lead, giving up Dickersons homer in the sixth.Outfielder Melvin Upton Jr., traded from San Diego to Toronto before the game, made his Blue Jays debut as a pinch hitter in the seventh. He grounded into a fielders choice.WHEELING AND DEALINGToronto announced another trade minutes after the game ended: The Blue Jays acquired reliever Joaquin Benoit from the Seattle Mariners for right-hander Drew Storen. Benoit, who turned 39 on Tuesday, is 1-1 with a 5.18 ERA in 26 games this season.WORKING OVERTIMEThe Blue Jays and Padres have played extra innings three times in their past five meetings. The first of those games lasted 17 innings.REPEAT PERFORMANCEDonaldson is the first third baseman in Blue Jays history to post consecutive 25-homer seasons.HIT PARADEBlue Jays RHP Roberto Osuna hit two batters with pitches in the ninth, matching the number hed hit in 114 previous career innings pitched.TRAINERS ROOMPadres: Class-A RHP Chris Paddack, acquired from Miami in last months trade for Fernando Rodney, has been sidelined indefinitely with a strained forearm.Blue Jays: Gibbons said Jose Bautista will be the DH on Wednesday, allowing Upton to make his first start for Toronto.UP NEXTPadres: RHP Luis Perdomo (4-4, 6.93 ERA) will make his first career appearance against Toronto. He has allowed three earned runs or fewer in six of his past seven starts.Blue Jays: RHP R.A. Dickey (7-11, 4.44) will start on three days rest, with RHP Marco Estrada getting pushed back to Friday. Estrada (back) was on the disabled list from July 3 to July 21. Dickey has lost his past two starts. 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The rookies best save came with 2:17 left in the third period when he denied former Wild forward Matt Cullen from just outside of the crease on the right side. LAS VEGAS -- Standing 5 feet 9 and weighing 165 pounds, Donnel Pumphrey was considered too small to play running back by many schools coming out of Canyon Springs High School in North Las Vegas.Rivals.com rated Pumphrey the fourth-best prospect in the state of Nevada. Scout.com gave him a two-star ranking. San Diego State had to beat out schools such as Oregon State, Duke and lukewarm interest from hometown UNLV to garner his services.But the spotlight will be a big one shinning on Pumphrey in the 25th annual Las Vegas Bowl when Mountain West champion San Diego State (10-3) plays Houston (9-3) on Saturday (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC) at Sam Boyd Stadium, only an 18-mile drive from Pumphreys old high school.Pumphrey (6,290 yards) needs 108 yards to surpass Wisconsins Ron Dayne (6,397) as the all-time leading career rusher in FBS history.Dayne, speaking on the Wisconsin State Journals The Red Zone podcast last month, said he believes hes getting shortchanged however.Hes gonna have (an asterisk) by his name if he breaks the record anyway, said Dayne, who starred at Wisconsin from 1996-1999. They didnt use none of my bowl games.Valid point. The NCAA began counting bowl games toward regular season and career statistical totals in 2002, but it did not go back and add bowl totals for players who played before 2002. If it had, Daynes total, counting bowl games, would be 7,125, including 200 yards in the 2000 Rose Bowl.Records are made to be broken, Dayne said. Good luck to him, and I wish him the best.Pumphrey, a first team All-American by Walter Camp and Sports Illustrated, ranks second in the country in rushing yards (2,018), rushing yards per game (155.2) and all-purpose yards (2,229) despite not playing in the fourth quarter in four of the past seven games. He is the only player in NCAA history with at least 5,000 rushing yards and 1,000 receiving yards.Despite all those glossy numbers, he wasnt one of five players invited to New York for the recent Heisman Trophy ceremony, another reason for him to play with a chip on his shoulder.Im very disappointed. I think he deserves to be there, San Diego State coach Rocky Long said last week. I knew all along that it was a long shot because of a lot of things, us being a non-Power 55 program and being on the West Coast.dddddddddddd Those are two big deterrents for him being invited, but its very disappointing. But hes the Heisman winner in our minds and heart.Houston promoted offensive coordinator Major Applewhite to become coach after Tom Herman departed to become Texas coach. Defensive coordinator Todd Orlando, who had been serving as the interim coach since Herman accepted the Texas job Nov. 26, assumes his usual duties as defensive coordinator and then is expected to join Herman at Texas.The Cougars, who opened the season with a 33-23 upset of eventual Big 12 champion Oklahoma and also stunned then-No. 5-ranked Louisville and Heisman winner Lamar Jackson 36-10, saw their bid for a second straight New Years Six bowl berth go by the wayside when they lost to Navy 46-40 midway through the season.Houston also lost to SMU and Memphis and finished fourth (5-3) in the West Division of the American Athletic Conference.Cougars quarterback Greg Ward Jr. is playing the final game of his spectacular career and ranks fifth in school history in passing touchdowns (52) and passing yardage (8,476). Ward accounted for 31 touchdowns (22 passing, nine rushing) this season while throwing for 3,328 yards and rushing for 518 despite battling a shoulder injury.Houstons rushing defense, led by freshman nose tackle Ed Oliver (19.5 tackles for loss, five sacks) and senior outside linebacker Steven Taylor (72 tackles, 8.5 sacks), ranks third in the nation at 97.9 yards per game which makes Pumphreys quest to break Daynes rushing mark even more interesting. The Cougars limited opponents to 22.6 points per game.Senior cornerback Damontae Kazee (seven interceptions this season, school-record 17 in his career) and senior outside linebacker Calvin Munson (team-best 108 tackles) lead San Diego States defense. Kazee is the first cornerback in Mountain West history to win the defensive player-of-the-year award twice and the fifth player overall, joining Tank Carder (2010-11 at TCU), Jerry Hughes (2008-09 at TCU), Eric Weddle (2005-06 at Utah) and Kirk Morrison (2003-04 at San Diego State). ' ' '