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Vancouver, BC (SportsNetwork. Mike McCormack .com) – The Los Angeles Kings peppered Ryan Miller with shot after shot. Eventually they started going in. Justin Williams and Jarret Stoll scored in a 53-second span late in the third period and the Kings rallied to top the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Thursday. The Canucks trailed 2-0 after two periods despite giving up just 10 shots but scored three unanswered goals to end a five-game road losing streak. Dwight Kings goal in the second period pulled them within 2-1 and Williams scored on a power play late in the third to tie it. Stoll netted the winner with 1:14 remaining. We battled, I thought we deserved this game, I thought we deserved to win it, Stoll said. Jonathan Quick faced just 16 shots in net for the Kings, who won for just the fourth time in their last 10 (4-3-3). They had been 0-3-2 in their last five on the road after losing in Calgary and Edmonton this week. Alexandre Burrows and Radim Vrbata scored for Vancouver, which had a four-game point streak snapped (3-0-1). Miller made 37 saves. Losing is disappointing but we didnt play the way we needed to, said Canucks coach Willie Desjardins. For whatever reason we just didnt have our jump. King drew Los Angeles within 2-1 when he buried his own rebound past Miller with 5:21 left in the second. Williams scored at 17:53 in the third, beating Miller to the short side with a high wrist shot from the right circle and Stoll scored from the left circle off Tanner Pearsons cross-ice pass. The Canucks totaled just 10 shots in the first two periods — including two in the second — but took a 2-0 lead on goals by Burrows and Vrbata. Burrows sent the puck through Quicks legs from in front of the crease 12:18 into the game on a power play after Vrbatas shot from the high left side hit off Daniel Sedin. Vrbata scored his 15th goal of the season 3:39 into the second period after Chris Higgins pass from below the right circle was deflected to him in the slot. Game Notes Burrows scored on Vancouvers only power play … Los Angeles was 1-for-4 on the man advantage … The Kings host Nashville on Saturday to start a seven- game homestand. Roy Ruskusky . The New York Rangers centre had a goal and two assists in a 4-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators ending a 13-game goal-scoring drought. Mike Fink . Replay backed him up. Adeiny Hechavarria immediately followed the ruling with a go-ahead sacrifice fly for the Miami Marlins, who held on to beat the Seattle Mariners 3-2 on Sunday completing a three-game sweep. CINCINNATI, Ohio — Mike Leake wasnt about to let this 8-0 lead get away. Jay Bruces homer helped the Reds get ahead by eight runs for the second day in a row, and Leake made this big lead stand up, pitching eight innings on Saturday for an 11-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. A day earlier, the Blue Jays pulled off the second-biggest comeback in their history. Down 8-0 after the second inning, they rallied to a 14-9 victory behind a pair of homers from Edwin Encarnacion. With their bullpen depleted, the Reds needed a solid effort from Leake (5-6), who went eight innings for the first time since May 13. „I already knew that we needed something, but its not like you can do it on command,“ Leake said. „My focus today was getting strike out within the first two pitches and going after them.“ The Reds got ahead 8-0 after four innings on Saturday against J.A. Happ (6-4), and the Blue Jays didnt have another big comeback in them. Leake had a lot to do with it, allowing the Blue Jays only four hits, including Colby Rasmus homer. „That was a character game,“ manager Bryan Price said. „We needed to show up and get yesterday out of our minds. One thing this team has shown all year is that it doesnt get down on itself.“ The Blue Jays are 9-5 all-time against the Reds, having won their four previous interleague series. Cincinnatis offence has languished near the bottom of the majors for much of the season, with Bruce and Joey Votto spending time on the disabled list. Both are back, and the Reds are starting to hit. Theyve scored at least nine runs in four of their last six games. Devin Mesoraco added a three-run homer in the seventh, his third homer in three games, as the Reds pulled away and quickly forgot about their Friday night meltdown. „Dusty (Baker) always said, Momentum is only as good as the next days starting pitcher,“ Mesoraco said. „Leake went out and gave us what we needed, and we were able to put some runs on the board.“ Happ made it easy for the Reds in the first inning, walking three batterss with two outs. Paul Kittredge. Ryan Ludwick drove in two runs with a single, and another scored on Erik Kratzs passed ball. Bruces homer in the third inning gave him 47 homers off left-handers over the last five seasons, the most by any player in the majors. Bruce scored three times overall. The Reds made it 8-0 in a fourth inning highlighted by RBI doubles from Votto and Brandon Phillips. Leake singled and scored during the rally. Happ lasted only four innings and give up seven hits, eight runs and four walks. It was his shortest start of the season. The four walks matched his season high. It was the most runs hed allowed since July 13, 2012 against the Giants. „He didnt have it today,“ manager John Gibbons said. „We never really had a chance. It was another big deficit to overcome. It was a little disappointing after last night, but theres nothing we can do about it now.“ Billy Hamilton singled home a run, extending his hitting streak to a career-high 10 games. He also stole his 31st base, the most by a Reds rookie since Chris Sabo stole 46 in 1988. After their four-homer, 16-hit splurge in the series opener, the Blue Jays went back into their hitting funk. The AL East leaders have lost 10 of their last 14 games, scoring two runs or less seven times during that span. NOTES: Johnny Cueto, who leads the NL with a 1.92 ERA, goes in the final game of the series against R.A. Dickey, who got two extra days of rest after his last start because of a sore groin. … Both teams bolstered their bullpens before the game. The Blue Jays called up LHP Rob Rasmussen and optioned RHP Liam Hendriks. The Reds called up RHP Carlos Contreras and designed OF Roger Bernadina for assignment. Both got into the game. … SS Jose Reyes fouled a pitch off the side of his left knee in the fifth inning but stayed in the game and popped out. He was replaced as part of a double switch in the bottom of the inning. … The Reds had their fourth sellout of the season. Theyre 1-3 in front of sellout crowds at Great American Ball Park this season. ‚ ‚ ‚