By Marc Topkin, Tampa Bay Times

CHICAGO — A team that says it’s going all out to win every game in a bid to make the postseason can’t load the bases on three walks to start the second inning and not get any runs.

Nor can that team allow five runs in the bottom of the inning by letting six of seven batters, and five straight, reach base.

Nor get two runners into scoring position with one out in the ninth and its three best hitters due up and not score.

Nor — not to be disrespectful — lose a game it has to win against the Chicago White Sox, who have the worst record in the American League and second worst in the majors.

But the Rays managed to do all of that Wednesday in a 6-5 defeat that, though not officially, may have sealed their fate.

The Rays dropped to 72-73 and, pending how the

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