"We needed a lot of things to come together for us to get that win," Rays manager Kevin Cash said. "It seemed like they all did today."
The Red Sox loss dropped them half a game behind the Blue Jays for first place in the American League East.
"We had a winning road trip," Boston manager John Farrell said. "We had to go out and put up a winning record, we've done that. But despite being 7-4 [on the road trip], there's times you look back, today being one of them, that you could have possibly capitalized.