TORONTO – Luke Scott and Kelly Johnson hit back-to-back home runs Sunday as the Tampa Bay Rays again used the long ball to complete a three-game sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays with a 4-3 victory.

Evan Longoria also went deep for the Rays (58-41), who hit seven home runs in the weekend series.

Toronto scored two in the ninth to cut Tampa Bay’s lead to one when Jose Reyes doubled home Josh Thole and Brett Lawrie, but Rays closer Fernando Rodney struck out Jose Bautista and got a ground balls from Edwin Encarnacion and Melky Cabrera to pick up his 24th save.

Rays starter Chris Archer (5-3) had a stellar outing for Tampa Bay, giving up one run on five hits over seven innings. The 23-year-old right-hander also walked four and struck out one batter for the Rays, who have now won five straight games, 13 of their last 14 and 17 of 19 to climb into second place in the American League East.

Toronto starter R.A. Dickey (8-11) gave up four runs on seven hits while striking out eight over six innings of work the Blue Jays (45-52), whose losing streak now sits at four games. The 2012 National League Cy Young Award winner, who also walked a batter, has not won since Canada Day and is now tied for the major league lead for home runs allowed with 23.

Dickey’s knuckleball was dancing most of the afternoon until the Rays got a handle on it in quick succession in the top of the sixth. With the score tied 1-1 and James Loney on board with a single, Scott belted his ninth home run of the season just over the wall in right to extend his hitting streak to a career-high 13 games.

The Rays had barely finished celebrating the two-run bomb when Johnson hit a towering drive into the second deck in right on the very next pitch for the former Toronto second baseman’s 15th home run of the campaign. Johnson’s homer marked the fourth time Tampa Bay has gone back-to-back in 2013, including twice against Toronto, and the sixth time the Blue Jays have surrendered back-to-back home runs this season.

Toronto had a chance to get back in it in the bottom of the inning, but Lawrie popped out to second with the bases loaded for the third out. A large section of the sun-soaked but frustrated crowd of 41,247 at Rogers Centre, which watched the home team waste a number of similar opportunities in Saturday’s loss, voiced its displeasure with a smattering of boos.

The Blue Jays got out of a bases-loaded jam in the top of the eighth when reliever Aaron Loup got Jose Lobaton to ground into a double play.

Toronto opened the scoring in the second when Thole’s ground rule double to left brought home Cabrera from third.

The Blue Jays threatened again in the third when Reyes walked and stole second, but Encarnacion grounded out before Archer got Lind swinging to end the inning.

Longoria tied it in the top of the fourth when he took Dickey’s first pitch of the inning to the opposite field in right for his 20th home run of the season.

Dickey got in trouble in the top of the fifth when Tampa Bay put runners on second and third after two singles and a passed ball, but the 38-year-old right-hander struck out both Desmond Jennings and Ben Zobrist to keep the score tied 1-1 before things unravelled the following inning.

Notes: Prior to the game, the Blue Jays added former slugger Carlos Delgado to the club’s Level of Excellence. Delgado joins former players Dave Stieb, Roberto Alomar, Tony Fernandez, Joe Carter and George Bell, along with former manager Cito Gaston, former general manager Pat Gillick, late broadcaster Tom Cheek and current president and CEO Paul Beeston in being honoured. … Dickey only gave up 22 home runs all of last season. … The Blue Jays activated Cabrera (left knee tendinitis) from the 15-day disabled list and optioned reliever Neil Wagner to triple-A Buffalo. … The Rays activated Loney off the paternity list and optioned infielder Ryan Roberts to triple-A Durham. … The Blue Jays open an interleague series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Rogers Centre on Monday, while the Rays travel to Boston to take on the Red Sox.