Texas Rangers at Tampa Bay Rays

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Texas Rangers

55-54, 27-29 Away

Final
2 - 3

Tampa Bay Rays

64-44, 40-16 Home

Cedric Mullins homers in the eighth inning, lifting Rays over the Rangers 3-2

Texas Rangers vs. Tampa Bay Rays: Game Highlights

Bryan Baker converted his 30th save of the season and 19th in a row with a scoreless ninth. Garrett Cleavinger (3-3) picked up the win as AL East-leading Tampa Bay moved a season-best 20 games over .500 (64-44).

Ben Peoples (0-1) took the loss.

Mullins hit his 13th homer with two outs in the eighth, looping an opposite field fly ball that landed beyond the short wall down the left-field line on the first pitch he saw from Peoples.

Texas threatened in the ninth after Nickey Lopez won two ABS challenges on third-strike calls to draw a leadoff walk. But Victor Mesa Jr. tracked down a line drive into the right-field corner to deny pinch-hitter Evan Carter of extra bases before Baker escaped with a strikeout of Ezequiel Duran to end the game with runners on first and second.

The Rays went in front in the third on a two-out double by Hunter Feduccia followed by a single from Yandy Diaz.

Tampa Bay starter McClanahan allowed the first two batters to reach in the fourth before getting pulled from the game because of back tightness. After Duran took third on a fly ball, pinch-hitter Joc Pederson hit a ground ball up the middle that was fumbled by Taylor Walls, allowing Duran to score.

Wyatt Langford doubled in Alejandro Osuna from first base to put Texas in front in the fifth before DeLuca hit a 415-foot homer to left field in the sixth to tie the game.

Up next Rangers: Open a series at Houston on Friday with RHP Nathan Eovaldi (10-8, 4.05 ERA) starting against Astros RHP Hunter Brown (2-1, 3.45).

Rays: Host the White Sox beginning Friday with RHP Nick Martinez (10-2, 2.45) starting against Chicago RHP Erick Fedde (5-6, 4.25).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Duran struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Langford walked, Lopez to second.
	9th Inning	Osuna struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Carter lined out to right.
	9th Inning	Carter hit for Wynns
	9th Inning	Lopez walked. Texas Rangers challenged: call on the field was overturned.

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
1	Hit By Pitch	0
10	Ground Balls	9
13	Strikeouts	5
2	Runs Batted In	3
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
2	Hits	9
2	Stolen Bases	1
7	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	3
0	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
30	At Bats	31
0	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
19	Runners Left On Base	8
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	1
1	Doubles	1
7	Fly Balls	17
0	Caught Stealing	0
166	Pitches	136
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
3	Total Bases	16
38	Plate Appearances	33
0.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
1	Extra Base Hits	3
1.3	Runs Created	4.8
.067	Batting Average	.290
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.100	Slugging Percentage	.516
.333	Secondary Average	.323
.263	On Base Percentage	.333
.363	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.849
1.4	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.5
1.3	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.3
14.0	Batter Rating	30.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	15.5
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.37	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.12
.033	Isolated Power	.226
0.54	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.40
.184	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.061
.267	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.032
4.0	Runs Produced	6.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.3
60.3	MLB Rating	84.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0