On Monday, the Rays will certainly board a trip to Boston to start the final week of the normal period. They'll play 5 more video games, 2 at Fenway Park and three in Toronto, prior to returning home to start the to be established throughout the Rays' season-ending journey: When and who they'll play the following time they report to Tropicana Field. But their 9-5 loss to the Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon, incorporated with the Orioles' 5-1 win over the Guardians, made it far more most likely that they'll be back in nine days to organize a best-of-three American League Wild Card Bay's course to its primary objective, winning the AL East title, now resembles a lot more of an uphill climb than it did Sunday early morning. Baltimore's magic number to clinch the division went down to 3, with a week of games staying. Gamings remaining at BOS, at TOR Standings update: The Orioles hold a 21/2- video game lead over the Rays for very first place in the AL East. Baltimore additionally controls the neck and neck tiebreaker versus Tampa florida Bay. The AL East champion will certainly be the No. 1 seed and obtain a bye into the Department Series. The second-place group will certainly be the No. 4 seed and host a Wild Card Collection. Postseason status: Secured a playoff berth and home-field benefit in their first series" We've reached keep progressing," facility fielder Manuel Margot stated through interpreter Manny Navarro. "We understand Baltimore's an actually excellent team. We've simply got to maintain doing our thing. " That's much easier claimed than done, naturally, particularly as the Rays' injuries continue to pile up. In the last 12 days, they have actually shed facility fielder Jose Siri, outfielder Luke Raley, arrangement guy Jason Adam and second baseman Brandon Lowe to an increasingly star-studded injured played this weekend without Randy Arozarena and configuration male Robert Stephenson, and All-Star first baseman Yandy Daz left Sunday's video game after 2 innings with what supervisor Kevin Money called a "precautionary" action. " It's mosting likely to be extremely tough. We've shed a whole lot of key players and setting gamers too," said infielder Isaac Paredes, that blasted his 30th home run in the 7th inning, via interpreter Manny Navarro. "I believe we need to just make certain these young people are going to do an excellent task of offseting it. " That had not been the instance in Sunday's collection starter Taj Bradley surrendered six runs, consisting of 5 with 2 outs in the 2nd inning Red Sox Store. A George Springer fly sphere took a poor bounce past Margot for a inside-the-park three-run homer. And the Rays made 3 key blunders on the Blue Jays created their huge inning in the second many thanks to a two-run single by Whit Merrifield and Springer's inside-the-park job, which Margot stated he was "actually close" to catching prior to it backfired to where no one was placed. But Bradley was kicking himself later for the stroll to Alejandro Kirk that began the entire point. "