ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The bay Rays are still afloat within the AL division series.
Jose Lobaton hit a solo home run with 2 outs within the bottom of the ninth frame into the enormous storage tank on the far side the center-field wall, and bay staved off elimination another time by beating the Boston Red Sox, 5-4, weekday night.
The Rays cut Boston's lead within the best-of-five series to 2-1. Game four is tuesday night at Tropicana Field, with Jake cant dog beginning for the Red Sox against Jeremy Hellickson.
Tampa Bay took a win-or-go-home game for the fourth time in 9 days. The Rays did it with AN unlikely stroke as Lobaton, who came off the bench late in the game, connected against Red Sox nearer Koji Uehara.
"It's unbelievable. It's one thing you cannot justify," Lobaton same. "We ne'er surrender. We're attending to keep fighting."
Back home once period of time on the road, the Rays gave a treachery crowd of thirty three,675 very little to cheer till Evan Longoria homered on his twenty eighth birthday. Longoria's three-run shot off Clay Buchholz with 2 outs in the fifth rallied bay to a 3-all tie.
Pinch-hitter Delmon Young, who includes a predilection for driving tonality runs in Oct, place the Rays ahead, 4-3, with an rbi grounder in the eighth.
The Red Sox tied it within the ninth against Rays nearer Fernando Rodney. Dustin Pedroia's tally hit created it 4-all.
Rodney got the win once Lobaton homered to right-center, into the ten,000-gallon tank wherever cownose rays swim around.
Uehara didn't surrender a home run in his final thirty seven regular-season appearances.
The Rays won 3 must-win road games in 3 cities over four days simply to get into the division series, in order that they felt smart regarding their probabilities of coming against the Red Sox.
Especially with Alex Cobb on the mound. The right-hander beat Cleveland, 4-0, within the AL wild-card game last Wed and has been one amongst the consistent pitchers within the majors since August 2012.
The Red Sox were even as assured regarding the prospect of closing out the series.
Buchholz, restricted to sixteen starts this season as a result of a neck strain that landed him on the disabled list for 3 months, beat the Rays double this year whereas permitting no runs and 5 hits in thirteen innings. He conjointly entered his second career postseason look with a a pair of.26 earned-run average in 9 career starts at Tropicana Field.
Cobb settled down once a shaky 1st frame, within which he gave up a leadoff single to Jacoby Ellsbury, hit a batter with a pitch and walked David Ortiz. however the Red Sox got only 1 run out of it, once second sacker mount Zobrist created a throwing error whereas making an attempt to show a baseball play.
Cobb, celebrating his twenty sixth birthday, retired eight during a row before walking Ortiz enticement the fourth. microphone metropolis followed with one for the second hit off Cobb, however Boston was unable to require advantage.
Ortiz labeled and visited third on Daniel Nava's striking, then was nearly caught too faraway the bag once Jarrod Saltalamacchia smitten out and catcher Jose Molina threw to 3rd base making an attempt to pick off Ortiz. The frame terminated with Stephen drew hitting a grounder back to Cobb.
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