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It was Wheeler who gave up a two-run shot to Drew in the eighth, and the game-tying single to Coco Crisp -- Coco Crisp! -- four batters later. And Wheeler -- helped by a terrible, two-out error by Evan Longoria -- who threw the final pitches of the ninth.

"There's a lot of fight in our dugout," Drew said.

And now, for the first time, a lot of doubt in the other one. Somehow, though they're going home, even though they're still up 3-2 in games, it suddenly seems like the Rays are the ones who are facing elimination.

"We have to go home and get it done there," Maddon whispered. "You can't dwell on it. You have to move on. You have another game."

Yes, they do. The Rays have another game, when they expected to still be washing champagne out of their hair. The Sox have another game when they had to be thinking they would be stuffing their belongings into baggies today, their season over. But there is no eliminating them. There is no burying them.

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