ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Eduardo Perez insists he and his Tampa Bay teammates don’t get any added satisfaction from beating the Yankees.

“I think it’s fun winning – bottom line,” Perez said after homering twice, including to tie it in the bottom of the ninth, and driving in three runs to help the Devil Rays rally for a 4-3 victory in 11 innings last night.

“We already know what it is to lose, and we were pretty good at it the first half of the season,” the son of Hall of Famer Tony Perez added. “Right now, we’re learning how fun it is to win, and we’re learning how to win in many ways.”

Jonny Gomes walked with the bases loaded in the 11th to give Tampa Bay its eighth victory against New York this year.

The Devil Rays improved to 19-12 since the All-Star break and snapped New York’s five-game winning streak. After winning 15 of 19 games between the teams in 2004, the Yankees are 4-8 against Tampa Bay this season.

“It was a very disappointing loss,” Yankees manager Joe Torre said.

The Devil Rays rallied from a 3-0 deficit against Randy Johnson and Mariano Rivera to force extra innings, then loaded the bases in the 11th with Carl Crawford’s double off Alan Embree (1-5) and two walks, including Scott Proctor’s intentional pass to Aubrey Huff.

Proctor, whose balk sent Crawford to third base after the reliever replaced Embree, walked Gomes on four pitches to end the game.

Torre didn’t second-guess his decision to walk Huff intentionally to get to Gomes, who struck out his three previous three at-bats.

“It’s not an enviable position, but you still have to do a better job,” Torre said. “He has a chance to get somebody out if he throws it down the middle. If he walks, you can’t.”

Chad Orvella (2-2) threw two scoreless innings for the win.

Johnson, who skipped a scheduled start last Thursday because of a bad back, allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings. He struck out seven and walked two, leaving with a 3-2 lead that Rivera could not protect.

Perez’s fourth homer against the Yankees this season made it 3-all with one out in the ninth. He also homered for the third time this year off Johnson, hitting a two-run shot off the Yankees ace in the sixth.

The blown save was Rivera’s second in three outings following a stretch in which he earned 31 in a row. The homer was only the second he has allowed this season, with Boston’s Jason Varitek hitting the other on April 5.

“I’m not perfect, and today was tough. We should have won the game, but I didn’t do my job,” Rivera said. “It was just one pitch, but there was no margin for error.”

Hideki Matsui singled to drive in two unearned runs off right-hander Doug Waechter in the first inning. John Flaherty added an RBI single in the second for a three-run lead.