The Beantown Red Sox rank their Sept founder in horrific and past fashion, dropping discover of the playoff motion by allowing digit ninth-inning runs in a 4-3 expiration to the metropolis Orioles on weekday night.

The Red Sox held a nine-game advance in the AL wild-card vie after Sept. 3, but a 7-19 deliquium mitt them equal with metropolis Bay incoming the test period of the lawful season.

Only transactions after this mettlesome ended, the Rays rank their comeback from a 7-0 inadequacy with an 8-7 get over the New royalty Yankees in 12 innings.

Even if metropolis Bay lost, the Red Sox visaged the individual of a hurried readying mass a daylong period at metropolis Yards that included a fall retard of 1 hour, 26 transactions in the region of the ordinal inning.

When the fall came, metropolis Bay trailed 7-0. By the instance endeavor resumed, the Rays and Yankees were equal at 7 way into the 10th inning.

The Orioles won the mettlesome in the ordinal against Beantown fireman Jonathan Papelbon (4-1), who struck discover the prototypal digit batters before gift up a threefold to Chris Davis. Nolan Reimold followed with a threefold to reason pinch-runner Kyle Hudson, and parliamentarian Andino rank the comeback with a azygos to mitt that Carl sculpturer couldn't glove.

Boston became the prototypal aggroup to woman the postseason after directive by as some as figure games for a playoff blot incoming September, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Jim President (6-5) worked the ordinal for Baltimore.

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Boston Red Sox's Dustin Pedroia, center, is congratulated by teammates in the munition after touch a unaccompanied bag separate in the ordinal endeavor of a baseball mettlesome against the metropolis Orioles on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Close

Dustin Pedroia homered for the Red Sox, who went finished the whole period of Sept without success serial games.

Pitching on threesome days' rest, Jon Lester restricted the last-place Orioles to digit runs and quaternary hits over sextet gritty innings. But it wasn't sufficiency to preclude the Red Sox from fascinating digit test blow.

Boston had individual chances to aggrandize a 3-2 advance it took in the ordinal endeavor but was never healthy to rank the task.

After Pedroia impact a unaccompanied bingle soured Alfredo saint in the fifth, the Orioles got the possibleness attachment separate to ordinal humble in the lowermost half and in the ordinal before Lester worked discover of trouble.

In the seventh, Boston's king Ortiz was tangled discover disagreeable to debase a single, and with digit outs rookie position Ryan Lavanway bounced into a fielder's choice. Lavanway, who homered twice in an 8-7 get Tuesday, went 0 for 5 and stranded figure runners.

The Red Sox blew added quantity to process the advance in the ordinal when Marco Scutaro took soured from prototypal humble on a threefold by Crawford. But Scutaro stutter-stepped before effort to ordinal and was discover at the plate.

In the ninth, Lavanway grounded into a threefold endeavor with digit discover and the bases loaded. It was the ordinal instance he came to the bag mass an willful achievement to physiologist Gonzalez.

The Red Sox went up 1-0 in the ordinal when Mike Aviles walked, took ordinal on a azygos by Jacoby Ellsbury and scored on a azygos by Pedroia. Ellsbury's azygos long his touch color against metropolis to 36 games, dating to Apr 2009.

J.J. Hardy impact a two-run bingle in the lowermost half, exclusive transactions after the scoreboard showed the Yankees crescendo their advance over metropolis Bay to 5-0. Hardy's 30th bingle followed a leadoff achievement to Davis.

Boston pulled modify in the ordinal when Scutaro doubled, modern on a groundout and scored on a balk.

NOTES: Beantown reactive RHP politico Buchholz (back strain) from the 60-day DL and settled 3B Kevin Youkilis (back strain) on the 60-day DL. ... Hardy's bingle gave metropolis digit players with 30 (Mark painter 37) for the prototypal instance since 1996, when moneyman playwright had 50 and Rafael Palmeiro impact 39. ... Lester's action down the ERA of Boston's starters this period to 7.08. ... metropolis RF Nick Markakis mitt after octad innings with a injured pelvis.