OAKLAND -- For the second night in a row, Jose Siri hit a game-winning homer for the Rays. On Wednesday, he celebrated by raising his bat skyward, looking into his dugout and flipping the bat even higher. An impressive toss, yes, but not his personal best.

“I think I got some better ones in the Dominican,” Siri said after Tampa Bay beat the A’s 4-2 at the Coliseum. Siri provided the victory margin with a two-run homer in the seventh off Oakland starter Mitch Spence, capping a sequence of heightened emotions after a rarely used ruling by home-plate umpire Brock Ballou led to a rare ejection of Rays manager Kevin Cash.

Ballou ruled that the Rays’ José Caballero could not take first base to start the seventh inning of a 2-2 game after Spence hit him because Caballero purposely stuck his left elbow guard into the pitch.

Cash came onto the field hot, said his piece and started returning to the dugout. But after a few steps, he did a 180 and yelled at Ballou again, quickly drawing his 18th ejection in 1,482 games as Rays manager and his second of the season.

After the game, Cash conceded that Ballou probably got the call right. With a rare admission, Caballero confirmed that he tried to draw the hit-by-pitch to get a rally started.

The ejection was not wasted, though. Caballero drew a walk to get to first base anyway. The next hitter, Siri, came to the plate with more fire than usual after watching Cash take one for the team in defending one of his players.

“He came out there pretty aggressive,” Siri said through translator Manny Navarro. “It kind of gave me a little more [fire] because I was nice and calm and it gave me some internal adrenaline.”

That jolt helped Siri propel his 17th homer, a Statcast-projected 423 feet over the left-field wall. After flipping his bat, Siri enjoyed a leisurely trot around the bases.

“Siri is always bringing electric energy, so you never know what you’re going to get," starter Ryan Pepiot said. “Going out there and doing that two nights in a row is pretty awesome.”

Siri also homered for the only run in Tuesday night’s 1-0 victory.

A pair of Rays might have gotten too fired after the bottom of the eighth. Caballero and first baseman Yandy Díaz had a brief argument in the dugout over a play in which Caballero, playing third base, charged a Miguel Andujar chopper and fired a throw to Díaz at first. The throw was low, but Caballero felt Díaz could have caught it.

Andujar was called out anyway when he walked into fair territory after the play to retrieve his helmet and was tagged. That prompted A’s manager Mark Kotsay to steam out of the dugout. He was ejected, too.

Then, reliever Garrett Cleavenger struck out pinch-hitter Daz Cameron to end the inning, and Manuel Rodríguez threw a perfect ninth for his first save as a Ray. He became the second Tampa Bay pitcher in as many nights to earn a save in place of injured closer Pete Fairbanks.

Pepiot allowed three hits and two runs. He's allowed two runs or fewer seven consecutive starts, the past two after he returned from a month-long stay on the injured list with a knee infection that he believes he got from a spider bite during the All-Star break.

Pepiot has been saddled with the nickname “Spiderman,” which wife Lilia seems to be on board with. Sitting on a table in the postgame clubhouse was a Spiderman cake for Pepiot, who was celebrating his 27th birthday.

The pitcher is not expecting the nickname to stick, though.

“I didn’t get any Spidey senses or powers or anything like that,” he said, “so if that name goes away, I’m cool with that."