ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Austin Wynns homered, Cal Quantrill struck out seven and the Texas Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Quantrill (4-3) held the AL East-leading Rays to two hits through 5 1\/3 innings as Texas won for the fourth time in five games.<\/p>\n
Evan Carter led the way offensively for Texas with a pair of base hits, an RBI and run scored.<\/p>\n
Peyton Gray, Tyler Alexander and Jakob Junis combined for 2 2\/3 scoreless innings of relief before Jacob Latz retired the side in order in the ninth for his 21st save of the season.<\/p>\n
Griffin Jax (6-8) tied a career-high with 10 strikeouts. He allowed five hits and one earned run in 5 2\/3 innings. Junior Caminero drove in the lone run for Tampa Bay with a triple.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay had allowed three-or-fewer runs in eight consecutive games, going 6-2 in that span.<\/p>\n
The Rangers built a 2-0 lead on a pair of sacrifice flies, one from Nicky Lopez in the second and another by Ezequiel Duran in the third.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay loaded the bases with one out in the fourth, but Quantrill induced a double play grounder back to the mound from Chandler Simpson to end the inning.<\/p>\n
Caminero cut the lead in half with his second career triple in the sixth off Peyton Gray. scoring Yandy Diaz before Wynns lifted a 363-foot home run into the leftfield stands off Steven Matz to regain the two-run advantage in the top of the seventh. Carter drove in Duran with a base hit to make it 4-1 in the eighth.<\/p>\n
The Rangers send LHP MacKenzie Gore (6-8, 4.82 ERA) to the mound on Wednesday against Tampa Bay LHP Ian Seymour (6-3, 4.64).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Austin Wynns homered, Cal Quantrill struck out seven and the Texas Rangers beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[20467,5,3995,2266,18086,6439,21295,9975,9270,4682,771,4,516,9500,9501,60825,9496,9497,22871,9499,149,19629,1555,1567,69,3240,9112,3348],"class_list":["post-764215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-austin-wynns","tag-baseball","tag-cal-quantrill","tag-evan-carter","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-griffin-jax","tag-ian-seymour","tag-jake-junis","tag-jake-latz","tag-junior-caminero","tag-mackenzie-gore","tag-mlb","tag-nicky-lopez","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-peyton-gray","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-rangers","tag-rangers-rays-score","tag-steven-matz","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-tyler-alexander","tag-yandy-diaz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}