TORONTO -- J.A. Happ's magical season continues.

Happ became the first 16-game winner in Major League Baseball this season by tossing six innings of shutout ball on Wednesday night as the Blue Jays blanked the Tampa Bay Rays 7-0.

Happ struck out seven, walked two and yielded only four hits (all singles) in improving his record to 16-3. He's won 10-straight decisions, equalling a mark among Jays claimed by only Roger Clemens and Roy Halladay.

Troy Tulowitzki homered and set a season-high with five RBIs while Devon Travis continued to shine in the leadoff spot for the Jays, extending his hit streak to seven games. Justin Smoak added his 13th home run of the year.

Toronto (65-50) entered the night tied with Baltimore for control of the American League East.

Happ's toughest sequence came in the first when the first two Rays to bat both reached base. Happ retired the next three batters, striking out Mikie Mahtook to close the inning.

The Jays quickly snatched the lead thereafter.

Travis led off with a single to left, just eluding the glove of shortstop Tim Beckham, before Josh Donaldson singled to right after a foul pop fly was dropped by Tampa right-fielder Steven Souza Jr.

Toronto made Souza Jr.'s error sting when Tulowitzki sent a Blake Snell slider over the wall in left -- his 19th home run this season -- giving Toronto a 3-0 lead. Tulowitzki is batting .296 with 11 home runs and 35 RBIs in 40 games since coming off the disabled list on June 18.

Snell, meanwhile, was charged with three runs in the opening frame, all of them unearned.

The Jays chased him from the game with two outs in the second. After Travis cashed a Darwin Barney double with an RBI-single, Snell went on to issue three straight free passes, the latter to Tulowitzki with the bases loaded. That extended the Blue Jays lead to 5-0.

It was the second time in three games, all at home, that the club posted at least five runs after failing to do so even once over a seven-game road trip last week.

Tulowitzki added his fifth RBI in the sixth, ripping a hard single to right that scored Edwin Encarnacion from second. It was the first five-RBI game for the shortstop as a Jay and first since June 3, 2015 when he was still a member of the Colorado Rockies.

An unlikely Cy Young contender, Happ never let an inning get out of hand in his latest outing.

He closed four of six innings with a strikeout, snuffing out any hope of a rally. The 33-year-old has given up only two earned runs over his last four starts, striking out 30 and scattering only 12 hits over 25 innings. His ERA now stands at 2.96.

The Toronto bullpen yielded only one hit over three scoreless innings.

Prior to the game, the Blue Jays placed right-fielder Jose Bautista on the 15-day DL. Bautista, batting .222 with 15 home runs, suffered a left knee strain in a 9-2 loss on Tuesday, his left cleat sticking in the turf on an attempted throw from right.

He returned from a DL stint (left toe) just over two weeks earlier and hopes to miss only two weeks.

"I was starting to get in the groove of things," a frustrated Bautista said. "I was seeing the ball pretty good and making solid contact in the last five, six games."