Texas Rangers at Toronto Blue Jays

· Major League Baseball

Texas Rangers

39-42, 20-24 Away

Final
6 - 5

Toronto Blue Jays

39-42, 22-21 Home

Langford hits 3-run homer, Burger and Pederson also connect as Rangers beat Blue Jays 6-5

Blue Jays fan gives Wyatt Langford HR ball to boy in Langford jersey

Pederson went 2 for 3 with two walks and scored twice as Texas bounced back after losing the previous two.

Toronto's Kazuma Okamoto cut the deficit to one with a two-run homer off Jacob Latz in the ninth, his 18th.

Latz recovered by retiring Alejandro Kirk on a grounder and striking out pinch hitter Brandon Valenzuela for his 15th save in 17 chances.

Rangers shortstop Corey Seager went 0 for 3 and walked twice after being activated off the concussion list. The two-time World Series MVP missed 12 games.

Texas left-hander MacKenzie Gore (5-6) allowed three runs and four hits in seven innings, snapping a four-start winless streak.

Pederson led off with his 12th homer, capping an 11-pitch at bat with a 402-foot drive into the second deck. He fouled off seven pitches before homering.

Langford and Burger both connected in a five-run third. Langford, who also went deep in Wednesday’s loss at Miami, hit his eighth homer. Seven have come in 19 games since he returned from the injured list June 5.

Burger’s two-run shot was his 14th.

All three homers came off Kevin Gausman (4-6), who allowed six runs and 10 hits in six innings, his sixth straight winless outing.

Gausman was hit hard by the Cubs in his previous start on June 19 when he gave up seven runs on seven hits in two innings.

Toronto scored three in the fifth. Davis Schneider hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly and Myles Straw followed with a two-run double.

The Blue Jays are 10-17 in series openers.

Up next Rangers RHP Nathan Eovaldi (7-7, 4.24 ERA) is scheduled to start Friday against Blue Jays LHP Patrick Corbin (2-3, 4.73).

Corrects fifth graf show that Seager was 0 for 3, not 0 for 2.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Valenzuela struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Valenzuela hit for Lukes
	9th Inning	Kirk grounded out to pitcher.
	9th Inning	Okamoto homered to center (420 feet), Clement scored.
	9th Inning	Guerrero Jr. struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Clement singled to left.

Statistics

$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX		TOR
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
12	Ground Balls	12
5	Strikeouts	8
6	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
10	Hits	6
0	Stolen Bases	0
6	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	5
2	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
33	At Bats	31
3	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
16	Runners Left On Base	4
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
16	Fly Balls	12
0	Caught Stealing	0
142	Pitches	141
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	3
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
19	Total Bases	10
39	Plate Appearances	33
486.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	2
7.0	Runs Created	1.7
.303	Batting Average	.194
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.576	Slugging Percentage	.323
.455	Secondary Average	.161
.410	On Base Percentage	.212
.986	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.535
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.0
7.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.7
43.0	Batter Rating	31.0
11.0	At Bats Per Home Run	31.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.64	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.27
.273	Isolated Power	.129
1.20	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.13
.154	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.030
.152	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.032
12.0	Runs Produced	10.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.7	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
94.5	MLB Rating	77.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0