Rangers vs. Guardians Game Highlights (9/26/25) | MLB Highlights

Guards and Rangers here tonight in Cleveland. It’ll feel like a playoff game once again for Cleveland, at least for Texas. Their regular season will be over on Sunday, but they want to spoil the guards, the guards want to get it done and get to the playoffs tonight. And we will look at Slade Sacconi and he has been on a nice roll. This will be his second career start against Texas. He had one back in August the 22nd. It was a good start. Six innings, four hits, two runs , Jack Peterson Rangers, leadoff man, a DH 177 hitter. He lost him ball four. Here is Cody freeman up the middle, punched into center field. He got a breaking ball and Freeman with a single to center Peterson to second josh Young. The batter swing and a miss. He got a fastball up in the zone. One down here in the first, still two in on here is rowdy to , to in the air left center that’s carrying well back to the wall and that is high off the fence. Peterson third. He will score as the relay throw dropped out there behind second base continues to torture Cleveland with an RB I double and they will take a 1 to 0 lead two down runners still 2nd and 3rd for Alejandro Osuna Sacconi trying to get out of it here in the first 21 and he smokes that out to right field. Valera back and that is second home run of the season for Alejandro Osuna and the Rangers put four runs on the board in the first inning and Texas with absolutely nothing to play for has jumped all over Slade Sacconi here and ending number one thought he was going to go to the mound with a 4 to 0 lead to start this year one down that will bring up George Valera, the rookie George Valera Bangs one in the hole and the left, the base hit and the Guardians had their first baserunner. He just punched it through the left side of the infield. Here’s jose Ramirez, he’ll swing it left handed, he strikes out, swinging lighter gets his first strikeout of the night two down. This is how you take a capacity crowd that’s been in a playoff mood this week right out of a ball game. Manzo trying to get it going again. Nardo Mass one deep center field , Helman’s out of room just three for 29 in his last eight games. Oh, did he need that? And, oh, did that dugout need that? Well, it’s just nice to answer. That’s a big first for them. You come right back and put something on the board that gets the energy right back into your dugout. A lot of game to go. Texas on top here in ending number 21 down for Michael Hillman swung on, popped him up foul behind the plate. Naylor looks like he might have room against the netting made the catch. Texas is challenging. Texas is challenging. They think maybe he clipped the net. No, he catches it in the glove first. His glove hit. I think that’s a good catch on the field. Stands at the catch. Texas will lose their two down in the second top of the order. And Jack Peterson, we pop up out goes, Roch would be a tough play though, comes in and makes the catch and it’s still a 4 to 2 ball game. Texas up in the middle of the second. Jack Leder to face Gabriel Arias right center field that’s in the alley that’ll go to the wall. Ary is on his way to second. He’s got himself a leadoff double. That is a patented Gabriel Arias swing and it s naps an zero for 15 slow tapper to first rowdy Telez takes it. Arias moves to third one out. Well, that brings up a guy who has really been impressive here in the final month of the season CJ Kafa two and two and he goes back with a fastball and strikes out Kafa. All right, here’s Roch, here’s a 32 pitch and he got him swing and he got him on the curveball. A is stranded at third. We move to the third. Rangers lead 4 to 2. Jack Lighter delivering that’s now five strikeouts for lighter and bring up George Valera and he walked him, that’s the first walk issued by Jack Lighter tonight and a one out base runner here in the third for jose ramirez. He’s the tying run at the plate. Center field, well hit Hellman back on the track and makes the catch and back to first goes Valera two down here’s kyle Mansard, a swing and a miss ball got away. He picks it up in front of the plate throws to first to complete the strikeout and that is the sixth strikeout tonight and that will take care of Cleveland here in the third, late back to work. Top of the fourth. Jonah, he the batter for Texas lined into center field. A base hit for Jonah Heim fifth hit of the night for Texas. Billy mckinney steps in ground ball diving, stop by roll. He’ll go to first and a great play by K two down and stars on both ends of that great play. That’s a nice play on the back end of this. Look at that. He had the right at the end of that glove. Look at a snow cone. Now, Michael Helman two down a runner in scoring position, the 22 swing and a miss, he struck him out his third of the night new pitcher on for the Guardians in the fifth inning. It’s left hander, eric Saps got him looking, I mean, made quick work of Peterson one swing and a miss back to back strikeouts for Sros swing and a miss strike 33 up, three down on three strikeouts by Crows. It’s a 4 to 2 Texas lead. We are in the sixth matt fest on the pitch now for Cleveland, the right hander two down. Here’s Alejandro Osuna, that foul five running basket. That’s why Stephen Quants the best left fielder in baseball action in the Texas bullpen for the first time. The night is lighter goes over 80 pitches on the night that will bring up Kyle Mansard change up for his seventh strikeout of the night. Man. Sardo is out number two in the sixth. Here’s Bo Naylor, the pitch a little topper out in front of the plate toward the mound, bare hand by lighter throws out Naylor. And that was another easy inning for the young rookie right hander the first out and that will bring up Billy mckinney. There is a base hit to center field by Billy mckinney, one out base runner for the Rangers here in the seventh. Jacob Jus, the new pitcher for the Guardians with one on one out here in the seventh and Michael Helman the batter he gets the butt down. It’s a perfect bunt grab throw by ramirez not in time Helman beats it out and now the Rangers have been at 1st and 2nd and now the dangerous Jack Peterson rocked right field base hit in the third bases, hold there. And now the bases are loaded with one down for Cody freeman. This game right now is hanging in the balance bouncer in the right field. That’s a base hit. One run is in. Here comes Helman, he scores and Freeman drives in a pair and it’s now 62. Texas Young is out number two and now the batter, jake Berger , tough play shallow center racing and nobody gets there. Peterson Lumbers home touching home plate. It’s a three run seventh for Texas and a 72 lead and the Texas Rangers with nothing to play for sometimes the most dangerous team you can play at this time of the year bottom of the seventh, Jack Leer back out there and a swing and a miss. He got him earns his eighth strikeout of the night side three called a hitter right on the corner back to back K for lighter in the seventh inning. Got him swinging a slider past Kafa. 10 strikeouts for lighter, lighter strikes out the side and equals his career high with 10 strikeouts as we are in ending number nine, the home half, jose never gives away and it back and he’ll draw a walk to start the bottom of the ninth two down. Gabriel Arias ramirez goes to second but that’s indifference. The pitch swung on a chopper up the middle base hit center field that will score ramirez. So give Gabriel Arias his 54th run batted in and it’s now 7 to 3 ball game two down here in the night. Daniel s in the batter B for three indifference enables arias to advance to second Cleveland down to its last. He strikes out here to end the game. So the Rangers win it by a final score of 7 to 3. But the good news for Cleveland is the Red Sox walk off the Tigers. So Cleveland stays in first place by virtue of the tiebreaker. They hold over Detroit.

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