The Tampa Bay Rays will be in their first World Series ever after beating the Boston Red Sox 3-1 in Game 7 of the ALCS.

“It’s unbelievable,” Rays center fielder B.J. Upton said. “We battled a lot of adversity this year. We stuck together as a team.”

The defending champions fought hard but in the end they lost to a better team.

“We played as hard as we could. Just kind of ran out of magic,” Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia said. “I’m proud of everybody, but it’s obviously a tough loss.”

“We didn’t get as far as we wanted,” Boston manager Terry Francona said. “We came out to win and go to the World Series and we didn’t accomplish that.”

The Rays will host the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday night.