Texas Rangers at Tampa Bay Rays

· Major League Baseball

Texas Rangers

29-33, 9-20 Away

Final
4 - 5

Tampa Bay Rays

32-29, 20-19 Home

Brandon Lowe hits solo HR, RBI double as Rays beat Rangers 5-4

Wyatt Langford hurdles over 1B to avoid tag

Josh Lowe and Brandon Lowe hit back-to-back doubles and Yandy Díaz and Jonathan Aranda followed with consecutive singles before Jake Magnum’s two-run single with two out capped Tampa Bay’s four-run third inning and made it 5-0.

Shane Baz (5-3) gave up three runs in five innings and Pete Fairbanks pitched a one-run ninth for his 11th save of the season.

Kumar Rocker (1-4), who was activated from the 15-day injured list (shoulder) earlier Wednesday, gave up five runs in 3 1/3 innings.

Jonah Heim hit a two-run home run with two out in the fifth inning. Josh Smith followed with a single and scored on a double by Wyatt Langford. Corey Seager drew a four-pitch walk before Baz struck out Josh Jung — the potential go-ahead run.

Langford hurdled Rays first baseman Aranda to avoid being tagged and reached safely on a throwing error by shortstop José Caballero.

Tampa Bay won the series opener, the first of nine straight road games for the Rangers, 5-1 on Tuesday.

The Rangers have lost 11 of their last 15 games following a season-long six game win streak.

Key moment Magnum hit a ground ball to first baseman Jake Burger that drove in Diaz and Aranda. Rocker was slow to cover first, which allowed Magnum to reach safely, and then held the ball as Aranda scored from second.

Key stat The Rays have allowed four runs or fewer in 15 consecutive games, one shy of the franchise record set Sept. 16, 2021, to Oct. 3, 2021.

Up next Jack Leiter (4-2, 3.66 ERA) is set to take the mound for the Rays on Thursday against Ryan Pepiot (3-5, 3.21) in the finale of a three-game series.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Seager grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Langford singled to right, Smith scored.
	9th Inning	Smith to second on fielder's indifference.
	9th Inning	Smith safe at first on throwing error by second baseman B. Lowe.
	9th Inning	Heim grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Burger grounded out to shortstop.

Statistics

$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX		TB
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
13	Ground Balls	7
11	Strikeouts	12
4	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	8
0	Stolen Bases	2
2	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	5
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
37	At Bats	31
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
15	Runners Left On Base	11
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	2
13	Fly Balls	12
0	Caught Stealing	0
148	Pitches	147
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
13	Total Bases	13
39	Plate Appearances	35
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	3
3.3	Runs Created	4.7
.216	Batting Average	.258
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.351	Slugging Percentage	.419
.189	Secondary Average	.323
.256	On Base Percentage	.343
.608	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.762
1.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
3.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.3
31.0	Batter Rating	35.0
37.0	At Bats Per Home Run	31.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.79	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.20
.135	Isolated Power	.161
0.18	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.25
.051	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.086
-.027	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.065
8.0	Runs Produced	9.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.8
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
78.5	MLB Rating	81.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0