St. Petersburg, Fla. — The Tigers were three outs away from evening the series.
Up 4-1 and with closer Gregory Soto on the mound, the Tampa Bay Rays stormed back to tie the game in the bottom of the ninth and then walked it off in the 10th, beating the Tigers 7-4 Friday night at Tropicana Field.
Brett Phillips belted a three-run home run off reliever Byran Garcia to end it and the Rays lowered their magic number to clinch the American League East to 7.
The first batter Soto faced in the ninth, Manuel Margot, lined one (99.