The dry spell ended Sunday. Edwin Jackson had not picked up a Major League win since Sept. 26, 2005, when he pitched 5 1/3 innings against the Pirates -- while wearing Dodgers blue.
Since that time, Jackson got traded, experienced a yo-yo season in which he went up and down between Triple-A and the Major Leagues while the powers that be decided whether he should start or relieve, and, there were 35 games -- 13 of which were starts -- in which the right-hander could not pick up a win.
Appropriately enough, Jackson's journey of despair experienced closure Sunday when the Devil Rays took a 9-4 win over his old team, the Dodgers, in front of a crowd of 18,248 at Tropicana Field. And Jackson got the W.

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