Back-up catcher Jose Lobaton kept Tampa Bay's season alive with a walk-off home run in the ninth inning that lifted the Rays to a 5-4 win over the Boston Red Sox in Game 3 of their American League Division Series.

Trailing 2-0 in the best-of-five series, the writing was on the wall for the Rays after they fell behind 3-0 early in the must-win encounter and then blew a 4-3 lead in the top of the ninth.

However, Lobaton smacked a two-out blast off Koji Uehara to give the Rays the win and cut the series deficit to 2-1.