Everyone counted the Tampa Bay Rays out coming into the season, and now they are the AL East champs and No. 1 seed.

Yankees 7, Rays 1. Yankees fourth. Ben Rice homers to center field. George Lombard strikes out swinging. Luis Garcia pops out to shortstop to Jo ...

Tampa Bay pushed its AL East lead to five games ahead of New York, earning its third walk-off triumph of the homestand while surviving an 11-strikeout gem from Boston starter Brayan Bello.

Palacios bloops a single to shallow rightfield to score Junior Caminero with the decisive run in the bottom of the 9th inning ...

But they failed to convert. Victor Mesa Jr. grounded out to second. Palacios hit a grounder to short that the Red Sox turned into an out at home, nabbing DeLuca, who was pinch running for Hicks. Then ...

Richie Palacios hits a walk-off single in the 9th inning leading the Rays to a 2-1 win over the Red Sox ...

Richie Palacios discusses his at-bat in the 9th inning as he delivered the walk-off hit for the Rays, the team's AL East ...

Drew Rasmussen pitched five scoreless innings and the Tampa Bay Rays opened a five-game AL East lead with a 10-1 win over the ...

In late August and September, the Tampa Bay Rays' supporting cast has begun to pick up the slack. Newly anointed AL Player of ...

Houston scored three or fewer runs for the 21st time in the past 35 games, failing to come up with timely hits in another low ...