Texas Rangers at Tampa Bay Rays

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Texas Rangers

29-34, 9-21 Away

Final
3 - 4

Tampa Bay Rays

33-29, 21-19 Home

Rays score 3 in 9th inning to rally for 4-3 win over Rangers

Rays walk off Rangers on 2-RBI infield single

Junior Caminero, who homered off Jack Leiter in the second inning, had an RBI single against Robert Garcia (1-3) to pull the Rays to 3-2 earlier in the ninth. After Jake Mangum flied out for the second out, Christopher Morel singled to load the bases.

Walls then hit a grounder to Semien, but no one was covering first base and Caminero came around to score from second for the winning run.

It marked the second straight night the Rays won on a defensive miscue. On Wednesday night, Tampa Bay took advantage of Rangers pitcher Kumar Rocker forgetting to cover first base to score a run and then scored another when Rocker then held the ball as Jonathan Aranda scored from second.

Semien had two solo homers and Jake Burger also went deep for the Rangers.

Cole Sluser (3-1) picked up the win with a scoreless ninth inning for the Rays.

Key Moment With two outs in the ninth, Morel singled on a ground ball to third baseman Josh Jung, who bobbled the ball with Morel racing to first to beat out the play and keep the inning going.

Key Stat Ryan Pepiot allowed two runs and three hits over six innings. Burger’s hoer in the third snapped Pepiot’s 20-inning scoreless streak, the second-longest active streak in the majors behind teammate Drew Rasmussen’s 23 innings. Pepiot also gave up a homer to Semien in the fifth.

Up next Rays RHP Zack Littell (5-5, 3.86 ERA) stars against Marlins RHP Edward Cabrera (2-1, 4.14) in the teams' series opener on Friday in Tampa. Rangers RHP Patrick Corbin (3-4, 3.71) faces Nationals RHP Michael Soroka (2-3, 5.81) in the series opener at Washington.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Walls reached on infield single to second, Aranda scored and Caminero scored, Morel to second.
	9th Inning	Morel reached on infield single to third, Caminero to second, Aranda to third.
	9th Inning	Mangum flied out to right.
	9th Inning	Caminero singled to center, Caballero scored, Aranda to second.
	9th Inning	Caballero ran for Díaz
	9th Inning	Aranda walked, Díaz to second.

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	0
9	Ground Balls	12
13	Strikeouts	11
3	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	7
1	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	4
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
32	At Bats	33
3	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	10
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
1	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
10	Fly Balls	10
2	Caught Stealing	0
153	Pitches	140
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
17	Total Bases	11
35	Plate Appearances	35
486.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	2
4.4	Runs Created	2.8
.250	Batting Average	.212
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.531	Slugging Percentage	.333
.344	Secondary Average	.182
.314	On Base Percentage	.257
.846	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.590
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.2
4.4	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	2.9
30.0	Batter Rating	28.0
10.7	At Bats Per Home Run	33.0
0.33	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.37	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.00
.281	Isolated Power	.121
0.23	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.18
.086	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.057
.094	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.030
6.0	Runs Produced	8.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.3
81.3	MLB Rating	76.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0