"Down to their final strike, the Rays weren't ready to say goodbye to 2011.

Now they don't have to.

Dan Johnson's two-out, two-strike home run in the bottom of the ninth completed a seven-run comeback for Tampa Bay, setting up Evan Longoria's walk-off solo home run off Scott Proctor with one out in the 12th.

The Rays' 8-7 victory came three minutes after the Red Sox blew a ninth-inning lead in Baltimore and completed a September surge that put them in the playoffs as the American League wild card."