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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- With the complicated math of baseball in the wild-card era, players in the Boston clubhouse were unaware the Red Sox are playoff bound.Dustin Pedroia hit his fourth career grand slam to help Rick Porcello get his major league-leading 22nd win, and the Red Sox clinched a playoff berth by beating the Tampa Bay Rays 6-4 Saturday night for their 10th consecutive win.Boston maintained a 5 1/2-game lead over Toronto for the division title and ensured no worse than the ALs second wild card. While the Red Sox technically have a magic number of one, the Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles play each other three times in the seasons final week -- meaning only one of them can win match Bostons 91 wins.Among the other wild-card contenders, only Detroit can reach 91 victories.I havent heard it, Red Sox manager John Farrell said moments after the game.Porcello was informed of the news by a reporter.Obviously, its big, Porcello said. Its the position that we wanted to be in coming into this last week of September. We definitely want the division going forward.Boston is on its longest September winning streak since an 11-game run in 1949.Pedroia stopped an 0-for-17 skid with a single in the sixth and gave Boston a 6-3 lead with a seventh-inning drive off Danny Farquhar.Everybody is obviously grinding, Pedroia said.Pedroia hit several foul balls, including one off his toe before going deep.You can see why hes as good as he is because he fought off some good pitches and got his pitch (a changeup) and crushed it, Farquhar said.Porcello (22-4) gave up three runs, eight hits and struck out nine over 6 1/3 innings. He just missed getting his 12th consecutive start of seven or more innings and three runs or fewer, which would have moved him past Cy Young (1904) and Pedro Martinez (2000) for the longest stretch during the same season in franchise history.Porcello is first Boston pitcher to have 22 wins since Martinez had 23 in his AL Cy Young Award winning season in 1999.Craig Kimbrel, the fifth Boston reliever, reached 30 saves for the sixth straight season despite allowing Logan Forsythes solo homer in the ninth.Brad Miller hit a two-run double in a three-run second that put Tampa Bay up 3-1 and gave him 80 RBI.Tampa Bay threatened in the second but failed to score due to two nice defensive plays. Pedroia made a throw from just in front of the outfield grass at second base on Mikie Mahtooks grounder to get Corey Dickerson at the plate. Third baseman Brock Holt made a solid play along the line on Alexei Ramirezs grounder and threw him out at first to end the inning.We made a couple of really nifty plays, Farrell said. Petey with a heads-up play and then Brock made a beautiful backhand play to finish the inning.TRAINERS ROOMRed Sox: Farrell didnt rule out 3B Pablo Sandoval (left shoulder) from coming back this year if an injury replacement is required in the postseason. . Knuckleballer Steven Wright (right shoulder) threw at 120 feet on level ground for the second straight day but is not ready to throw off a mound.RAYS: DH Nick Franklin (left hamstring) was in the lineup for the first time since Sept. 15. He did pinch hit twice in-between.LOOKING AHEADFarrell said LHP David Price will start Tuesday and Sunday, which lines him up for Game 2 of the AL Division Series.HONORING BIG PAPIThe Rays will honor Red Sox DH David Ortiz in a pregame ceremony Sunday before his final game at Tropicana Field. 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YAS MARINA, Abu Dhabi -- Nico Rosberg has praised the skill Lewis Hamilton displayed when he tried to back him into the chasing pack at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and force one last twist in the 2016 championship tale.In his last throw of the dice, Hamilton lapped over a second off the pace in an attempt to back Rosberg into Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen behind. If both drivers found a way past Rosberg, Hamilton would have been back on track for the title, but ultimately it did not pay off.When it was put to Rosberg that he could have attempted to pass Hamilton, the newly-crowned world champion praised the way in which Hamilton executed his tactics.Lewis was using all of his skill to do it perfectly so there was absolutely no way for me to be able to get by, of course I thought about it but it was just pointless, he said. There was no way [for me to get past Hamilton]. He did it in a good way. In a perfect way.When he was asked whether he thought Hamiltons tactics were correct, Rosberg added: Thats a pretty simple discussion. You can understand the teams perspective and you can understand Lewis perspective so thats it.Hamiltons slow pace earlier in the race meant Rosberg briefly fell behind Verstappen and was forced to make a decisive overtaking manoeuvre to keep his championship challenge on track.dddddddddddd Rosberg said it was one of the best passes of his career as he went wheel-to-wheel with the teenager through both apexes of the chicane.Oh for sure it was great. Definitely a great one, fair play to him also. He went full on aggressive, he didnt give an inch, as usual but fair play. We didnt collide and I got by. It felt amazingly good. It was an awesome feeling at the time. So intense, unbelievably intense, never felt anything like that in the car before.Rosberg said the combination of the overtake, Hamiltons tactics and what was at stake made the race one of the most stressful of his career.The feelings out there in that battle with Max, unreal. Really unreal. I hope I dont experience that again anytime soon. The same again at the end, pressure on from behind, Lewis driving slow in front and really, it was a tough one. It was so Intense, the race. It was really intense out there and so tough. In the end those last couple of laps with those two guys behind me, if I dropped behind them its over so not enjoyable. ' ' '