ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jake Burger homered twice and Ezequiel Duran had his 12th game this season with at least three hits as the Texas Rangers rallied from two four-run deficits to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 8-6 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Rangers (71-73) earned a split of the four-game series with the Rays (85-58), who own the American League\u2019s best record. Texas trails by two games in the races for the AL West lead and the league\u2019s final wild card.<\/p>\n
With the score tied 5-all in the fifth, Elias D\u00edaz singled off Steven Matz (5-5) to score Burger, and Duran singled off Casey Legumina to bring home Logan O\u2019Hoppe.<\/p>\n
The Rays pulled within a run in the seventh, but Corey Seager restored Texas\u2019 two-run lead with a solo homer in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Jakob Junis pitched a perfect ninth for his sixth save in seven chances after All-Star closer Jacob Latz worked a scoreless eighth. On Saturday night, Latz was the 10th-inning loser for his first defeat since April 10 after allowing his first home run since June 25.<\/p>\n
Trevor Williams (1-0), signed by Texas last Tuesday after being released by Washington on Sunday, pitched two scoreless innings for his first win since May 2025.<\/p>\n
The Rays went ahead 4-0 in the second inning, sending 10 batters to the plate against Rangers starter MacKenzie Gore.<\/p>\n
Burger homered leading off the second and, with the Rangers trailing 5-1 in the fourth, added a two-run shot \u2014 both off starter Ian Seymour \u2014 as Texas batted around to tie the score.<\/p>\n
It was the ninth career multihomer game for Burger, who is tied for the club lead with 25 homers and leads the team with 82 RBIs.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Both teams hit the road for three-game series beginning Tuesday. Rays RHP Freddy Peralta (7-11, 4.96 ERA) will start against Atlanta. Texas hadn’t announced a scheduled starter for its game against Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jake Burger homered twice and Ezequiel Duran had his 12th game this season with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[1251,62,5,189,40,4,6726,43,187,540,92,6727,5168,5167],"class_list":["post-657193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-hockey","tag-lightning","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-professional-baseball","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaylightning"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117229191397520066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}