<strong><span class="subhead">Play of the game</span></strong></p><p>It wasn&#8217;t much, but B.J. Upton&#8217;s looping fly ball to the right-field line was enough to score Fernando Perez from third base for the winning run. Perez made a nice move around Red Sox catcher Kevin Cash as he went up the line to grab J.D. Drew&#8217;s throw.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Player of the game</span></strong></p><p>Rays reliever Dan Wheeler pitched 3 1/3 scoreless innings before David Price finished the game, saving Tampa&#8217;s bullpen some. It was the first time since 2004 that Wheeler has thrown more than three innings.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Cooling off</span></strong></p><p>The teams have today off, just workouts, before Monday&#8217;s game three &#8212; and maybe the Rays can use the time to get used to the weather change.</p><p>Forecasts say it could dip into the high 40s during the late innings of the three games in Boston. That&#8217;s a bit different than the constant 72 degrees underneath the roof of Tropicana Field.</p><p>Expect everyone to be appropriately bundled up, some more than others.</p><p>&#8220;I get cold easily,&#8221; Rays manager Joe Maddon says. &#8220;I grew up in Pennsylvania. I remember minus-46 with the wind chill, and I freeze now in 40-degree weather.&#8221;</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Fenway phenom</span></strong></p><p>There aren&#8217;t a lot of sure bets in sports, especially baseball, but Jon Lester at Fenway Park may be one of them.</p><p>Boston&#8217;s game three starter was 11-1 with a 2.49 ERA in 17 starts at Fenway Park in 2008. One of those, of course, was the no-hitter against the Royals in May.</p><p>Boston last lost a home game started by Lester on April 23, when you may have been waiting for your tax return.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Rap for Rays</span></strong></p><p>You didn&#8217;t think the Rays could emerge into the playoffs without a local rap group paying tribute, did you?</p><p>Davie Gill (&#8220;Big Gill), Herman Grant (&#8220;Cristol&#8221;), and James Peoples (&#8220;Bay Boi&#8221;) wrote and perform &#8220;It&#8217;s Our Season,&#8221; which was made into a video that&#8217;s played before home games.</p><p>Type the song title into YouTube if you&#8217;re interested, but if the Royals ever turn their rebuilding effort into a playoff appearance, we expect something much better from Tech N9ne.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Maddon agrees</span></strong></p><p>A day after Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz&#8217;s thinly veiled accusation that the Rays were timid in their first ALCS game, Maddon said he agreed.</p><p>&#8220;I did see it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I thought it primarily manifested itself in the pitches that we swung at.&#8221;</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Drew doesn&#8217;t start</span></strong></p><p>Boston manager Terry Francona said outfielder J.D. Drew did not start Saturday because of the matchup with Rays left-handed starter Scott Kazmir, not because Drew got hit in the shoulder with a pitch on Friday.