Tampa Bay Rays face Toronto Blue Jays in playoffs. Here’s when they will play

The Tampa Bay Rays will face the Blue Jays in the first round of the playoffs.

The Blue Jays earned the trip to face the top-seeded Rays by losing to the Orioles on Sunday, making them the second wild card and No. 8 seed.

Had the Blue Jays won, there was a chance they could have finished in second place and moved up to the No. 5 seed, with the Yankees instead coming to the Trop.

The Rays won six of the 10 games against Toronto this season, including four of seven at Tropicana Field. They haven’t met since Aug. 24, as all 10 meetings were among the first 30 games of the season.

The matchup became official as the Rays were finishing their 5-0 win over the Phillies to push their American League-best record to 40-20.

Rookie Josh Fleming gave the Rays an impressive star, with six shutout innings, allowing four hits while walking one and striking out five. He was replaced by Oliver Drake, who had a sharp 1-2-3 inning inning, followed by Aaron Loup and Ryan Sherriff.

The offense came from throughout the lineup.

Kevan Smith knocked in one in the first. Joey Wendle and Hunter Renfroe rapped back-to-back, two-out RBI singles in the third. A Smith double and Mike Brosseau triple, on a ball Phillies rightfielder Phil Gosselin badly misplayed, led to a run in the sixth, and a Hector Neris wild pitch another.

The best-of-3 series against the Blue Jays starts at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Tropicana Field. Game 2 is at 4 p.m. Wednesday. A possible game 3 would be Thurdsday at a to-be-determined time. All games will be televised on TBS.