Toronto Blue Jays at Texas Rangers

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Toronto Blue Jays

76-79, 36-41 Away

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2 - 6

Texas Rangers

78-77, 44-33 Home

Rangers take sole possession of AL West lead, Quantrill leaves with injury in 6-3 win over Blue Jays

Toronto Blue Jays vs. Texas Rangers: Game Highlights

Texas (78-77) has won six of seven and moved a half-game ahead of Houston (77-78), which holds the tiebreaker. The Rangers have a winning record for the first time since before play on Aug. 11.

Jordan Montgomery (1-0) got his first win since Aug. 14, 2024, pitching 3 2/3 hitless innings. He returned from Tommy John surgery this past Aug. 9.

Davis Schneider hit a pinch-homer for the AL champion Blue Jays (76-79), who have lost eight of 12. They trail the Chicago White Sox by three games for the AL’s final wild card.

Quantrill a, son former Toronto All-Star Paul Quantrill, retired George Springer on a groundout opening the second inning and didn’t appear to exhibit any pain but didn’t face another batter. The 31-year-old right-hander left his previous start on Sept. 13 at Arizona after 70 pitches because of a sore back.

Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said after the game he had no update on Quantrill, who is to have an MRI on Sunday.

Quantrill was followed by Montgomery, and Nathan Eovaldi, Robert Garcia, Chase Silseth and Jacob Latz pitched one inning each.

Texas scored twice in the second off José Soriano (12-8) without a base hit, helped by a walk, hit batter, infield throwing error and a wild pitch.

Texas’ three-run sixth featured an RBI double by Wyatt Langford when left fielder Myles Straw pulled up as the ball land between him and the wall.

Soriano allowed six runs — five earned — pitching three batters into the sixth.

Rangers RHP Jacob deGrom (11-9, 3.79), who is 8-2 at home this season with a .183 opponents batting average, starts Sunday while the Blue Jays employ a bullpen game.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Clement flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Okamoto grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Schneider struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Latz relieved Silseth
	9th Inning	Foscue at second base.
	8th Inning	Carter flied out to left.

Statistics

TOR		$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	3
15	Ground Balls	6
4	Strikeouts	12
2	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	5
0	Stolen Bases	1
1	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	6
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
32	At Bats	28
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
10	Runners Left On Base	16
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	2
0	Doubles	2
13	Fly Balls	11
0	Caught Stealing	0
125	Pitches	120
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	1
1	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
9	Total Bases	10
34	Plate Appearances	36
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
1	Extra Base Hits	3
1.7	Runs Created	3.9
.188	Batting Average	.179
.500	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.281	Slugging Percentage	.357
.125	Secondary Average	.357
.235	On Base Percentage	.333
.517	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.690
1.2	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.5
1.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.2
17.0	Batter Rating	33.0
32.0	At Bats Per Home Run	28.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.68	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.33
.094	Isolated Power	.179
0.25	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.33
.029	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.111
-.063	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.179
4.0	Runs Produced	10.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.7
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
71.0	MLB Rating	77.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0