Rays wrap up first AL East title with Red Sox loss

Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon struggled to come up with the right words. Carlos Pena hugged teammate B.J. Upton and yelled "I told you we could do it! I told you we could do it!" This was one sweet celebration for the Rays.

Tampa Bay won its first AL East title when the Boston Red Sox lost to the New York Yankees late Friday night. The Rays fell 6-4 to the Detroit Tigers earlier and had to sit through the rain-delayed Boston loss before celebrating their championship.

Maddon and a few of players remained in the clubhouse at Comerica Park to watch the Red Sox game. Others watched it at Detroit's MGM Grand and back at the team hotel.

"It's one of those things where it's something you've fantasized about your whole life," Maddon said. "You can't believe it. You have to kind of wait and sit back. It just feels fantastic right now, wonderful."

In other AL games, it was: Kansas City 8, Minnesota 1; Cleveland 11, Chicago White Sox 8; Texas 12, Los Angeles Angels 1; and Seattle 10, Oakland 8. Toronto also beat Baltimore 3-0 in a game cut short by rain.

Tampa Bay, which had never won more than 70 games in a season, became the first team other than Boston and New York to win the division since Baltimore did it in 1997.