Meadows, Lowe hit 5th-deck bombs in same inning at Rogers Centre

The Tampa Bay Rays are putting on a historic power display in Toronto.

In the third inning of Friday's game against the Blue Jays, Rays sluggers Austin Meadows and Brandon Lowe each hit homers to the Rogers Centre's vaunted fifth deck.

Meadows went first, slugging his second bomb of the contest off Blue Jays starter Trent Thornton. The ball sailed over Jackie Robinson's No. 42 and into the first rows of the top level in right field.

Four batters later, Lowe launched his own fifth-deck moonshot to almost the exact same spot as Meadows:

Meadows and Lowe's blasts were both estimated at 436 feet, according to StatCast.

"They were fighting over which one went further, which was pretty entertaining," Rays manager Kevin Cash said following the 11-7 win, according to The Associated Press.

Reaching the fifth deck in Toronto is a rare feat. Since the Blue Jays opened the stadium in 1989, only 22 homers - including both Rays blasts Friday - have been hit there, according to Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times.

Before Meadows and Lowe did it Friday, just three of the previous 20 had been hit to right field. The Blue Jays' Carlos Delgado (1998) and Shawn Green (1999), and the San Diego Padres' Alex Dickerson (2016) are the only others to have done it.

"I felt that's about as far as I can hit it, honestly, so it felt good," Meadows told Topkin.

Friday also marked the first time two fifth-deck homers were hit in the same game in Rogers Centre/SkyDome history, according to Gregor Chisholm of MLB.com.

Thornton became the first pitcher to surrender two such shots in the stadium's history.