ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Music blared in the Tampa Bay clubhouse and four large, flat-screen televisions mounted around a column in the middle of the room were tuned to the same in-house channel displaying the AL East standings.

The surprising Rays are on top, and the sputtering Yankees are on the bottom. No one was gloating, though.

‘‘I want us to celebrate hard for 30 minutes postgame and then move on. I want us to dwell on a loss for no more than 30 minutes,’’ manager Joe Maddon said after Thursday’s 5-2 victory dumped New York into the cellar.

‘‘Sometimes I get away from my own rule on the negative side. But I think the guys are handling this very well. It’s the confidence that’s been gained. It’s the momentum that you create. ... It’s a feeling that did not exist before, so first of all, you have to nurture it and grow it, and then once you got it, you have to do everything you can to hold on to it because it can go away.