Tampa Bay Rays at Texas Rangers

· Major League Baseball

Tampa Bay Rays

4-5, 0-3 Away

Final
3 - 4

Texas Rangers

8-2, 6-1 Home

Jonah Heim's walk-off single in the 9th sends Rangers past Rays 4-3 to extend win streak to 5 games

Smith had a two-out double down the left-field line, his third hit to match a career high, off Edwin Uceta (0-1).

Smith and Heim, hitting seventh and eighth in the order, combined for five of Texas’ seven hits.

Jacob Webb (1-0), the last of three Rangers relievers, stranded the potential go-ahead run at second in the ninth.

Neither of Texas’ top late-inning relievers, Luke Jackson (five saves) nor Chris Martin (one), was available because of recent workloads.

The Rays were swept in three games in their first road series of the season. They will return home for a 13-game homestand that will tie a franchise record. Their home schedule is being played outdoors at Steinbrenner Field, while enclosed Tropicana Field is repaired following damage done during Hurricane Milton last October. That scheduled is designed to minimize games during the area’s rainy summer.

The Rangers have won seven straight over the Rays going back to last season. They’ve beaten Tampa Bay nine straight at Globe Life Field.

Corey Seager’s solo home run in the sixth inning was his first RBI of the season, ending his longest season-starting drought at seven games.

Key moment With the Rays’ José Caballero on second with two outs in the ninth, Webb struck out Taylor Walls. Rangers relievers struck out five over the final four innings.

Key stat The Rangers are 8-2, their .800 winning percentage leading the AL despite having a league-worst .192 team batting average.

Up next Rangers right-hander Nathan Eovaldi (1-0, 2.00 ERA) will begin a road series Monday against Chicago Cubs left-hander Justin Steele (2-1, 6.89). Rays right-hander Shane Baz (1-0, 0.00) will face Los Angeles Angels right-hander Kyle Hendricks (0-0, 3.00) in Tuesday’s series opener.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Heim singled to center, Smith scored.
	9th Inning	Smith doubled to left.
	9th Inning	Burger popped out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	A. García flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Uceta relieved Fairbanks
	9th Inning	Walls struck out swinging.

Statistics

TB		$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
15	Ground Balls	9
6	Strikeouts	10
3	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	7
3	Stolen Bases	4
2	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	4
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
1	Sacrifice Flies	0
32	At Bats	33
0	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
12	Runners Left On Base	10
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	1
12	Fly Balls	14
0	Caught Stealing	0
149	Pitches	152
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
8	Total Bases	11
35	Plate Appearances	35
0.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
1	Extra Base Hits	2
2.3	Runs Created	3.2
.219	Batting Average	.212
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.250	Slugging Percentage	.333
.188	Secondary Average	.303
.257	On Base Percentage	.257
.507	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.590
1.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
2.3	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.2
24.0	Batter Rating	32.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	33.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.26	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.34
.031	Isolated Power	.121
0.33	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.20
.057	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.057
-.031	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.091
6.0	Runs Produced	8.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.3
73.8	MLB Rating	77.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0