Oliver Drake, Aaron Loup and Ryan Sherriff completed a six-hitter.

Tampa Bay (40-20) has the AL’s top record after reaching the postseason last season as a wild card.

“It’s short and long all at the same time,” Rays infielder Joey Wendle said of the 60-game season. “It’s been a strange run. We’re the 1 seed in the American League and in terms of regular season that was as good as we could have hoped for.”

Pinch-hitter Kevan Smith had a run-scoring single in the second before Wendle and Hunter Renfroe both had third-inning RBI hits off Aaron Nola (5-5) that put the Rays up 3-0.

Nola gave up three runs and six hits in 3 2/3 innings.

Mike Brosseau hit an RBI triple that bounced over right fielder Phil Gosselin’s head and scored on Héctor Neris’ wild pitch when Michael Perez struck out to make it 5-0 in the sixth.

Philadelphia loaded the bases with two outs in the fourth but Fleming got a grounder from Gosselin.

Phillies rookie Alec Bohm doubled in the eighth and had a hit in 18 of his last 20 games.

It was not known before the game if the Rays would play the New York Yankees or Toronto in the first-round series.