After taking a 4-1 lead in the fifth inning against Mark Buehrle, the AL East division champions answered with four runs in the sixth, rolling past the Tampa Bay Rays by an 8-4 margin. The loss ended the Rays’ hopes of finishing with a .500 record, as Tampa Bay fell to 78-82 on the season with two to go. It, too, was a microcosm of why the players will be spending October at home for the second consecutive year.