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
Up next<\/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":355815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2205,28,115,29645,110,135,3815,137,136],"class_list":["post-355814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-professional-baseball","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}