Monday, 3 a.m.

Do you get the feeling that rival general managers can hardly wait for Freddy Peralta to hit free agency?

The move to Tampa Bay has evidently saved Peralta's career. He won his fourth straight game Sunday, improving his record to 9-11.

This time, Peralta threw five innings of no-hit, shutout baseball, leading the Rays to a 14-4 victory over the Houston Astros. It completed the team's 15th sweep, most in the majors.

The Rays have now won six of their last seven games.

After two straight close wins over Houston, which leads the AL West, this was a cakewalk. The Rays hit four home runs -- two by Jonathan Aranda -- to power the win.

Richie Palacios hit a three-run homer in the third. Nick Fortes hit a solo homer in the fifth.

Aranda now has 21 homers.

Victor Mesa Jr. had three hits -- including a two-run triple to lead the Rays. Yandy Diaz, Aranda, Palacios and Nick Madrigal all had two hits.

The Rays' lead in the AL East remains at four games over New York and eight and a half games over Boston.

The Rays are off today and start a three-game series against the Athletics Tuesday at 6:40 p.m. at Tropicana Field. Griffin Jax (7-10) will start for the Rays against Jack Perkins (3-11).

Sunday, 4 a.m.

Perhaps they aren't done, after all.

A night after clinching the post-season, the Rays lengthened their lead in the AL East to four games over the New York Yankees. The Rays edged Houston, the leader in the AL West, 3-2.

The Rays have won six of their last eight games.

Saturday's game lacked the drama of Friday's game, when Junior Caminero hit his American League-leading 40th home run in the bottom of the ninth for a 3-1 lead. That set up a massive celebration.

But, no, the Rays weren’t lethargic in their follow up game.

Richie Palacios had a two-run single in the fifth, and Nick Madrigal had a tie-breaking sacrifice fly in the seventh to ljft nthe Rays to their win.

Ian Seymour threw six innings and allowed just two runs to lead the Rays. He struck out 10.

Reliever Tyler Wells (5-2) got the victory. Bryan Baker had his 40th save.

The Rays and Astros close out their series today at 1 p.m. at Tropicana Field. Freddy Peralta (8-11) will start for the Rays against Hayden Wesneski (5-1).

Sunday, 3 a.m.

Okay, okay. Michael Van Buren is still behind Byrum Brown as far as miracles in the name of USF goes.

But he's gaining.

Van Buren, the new USF quarterback, led the USF Bulls to an improbable comeback Saturday in a 28-24 road win over Army. Van Buren led the Bulls to two touchdowns in the final 3:13 to improve USF's record to 2-0.

Van Buren threw a 38-yard touchdown pass with 23 seconds to play to pull out the win. Earlier, he had run for a 24-yard touchdown and an 18-yard score. He had thrown for a seven-yard score to Bryson Rodgers.

But it was uphill game for the Bulls. They surrendered 219 yards rushing to Army, and they allowed the Knights to hit 10 of their 11 passes.

Army led 24-14 late in the fourth quarter. The Knights had played keepaway most of the game. Army had the ball 35:46 to the Bulls' 24:14. That included a drive of 9:57 in the second quarter.

But Van Buren responded to USF being forced to throw, hitting 10 of his last 15 passes for 122 yards.

On the winning drive, the key play came with 25 seconds to play. First-year coach Brian Hartline decided not try to kick a game-tying field goal of 55 yards by Nico Gramatical. Instead, he went for it on fourth-and-six. Van Buren found Joshua Porter down the right sideline for the win.

The Bulls are home at Raymond James Stadium on Saturday night against Delaware State.

Florida 52, Campbell 3: The Gators' Vernell Brown III paid attention to his digits against the outmanned Campbell Fighting Camels Saturday.

Brown scored three times -- two on punt returns of 70 and 64 yards -- as the Gators pulled away from Campbell in the second quarter in their big win.

Brown had 262 all-purpose yards as the Gators moved from a 10-3 first period edge to a 45-3 halftime lead.

For the Gators, Jadan Baugh rushed for 136 yards. Quarterback Aaron Philo threw for 262 yards. Receiver Dallas Wilson caught five passes foe 104 yards.

Florida plays at Auburn next Saturday at 7 p.m.