{"id":356609,"date":"2026-07-29T19:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356609\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:32:12","slug":"wynns-quantrill-power-rangers-to-4th-win-in-5-games-4-1-over-the-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356609\/","title":{"rendered":"Wynns, Quantrill power Rangers to 4th win in 5 games, 4-1 over the Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstalkflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Rangers-defeat-Rays-Austin-Wynns.jpg\" data-caption=\"Texas Rangers&#039; Austin Wynns celebrates his solo home run off Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Steven Matz with third base coach Corey Ragsdale (64) during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 28, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo\/Chris O&#039;Meara)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Rangers-defeat-Rays-Austin-Wynns-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Texas Rangers' Austin Wynns celebrates his solo home run off Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Steven Matz with third base coach Corey Ragsdale (64) during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 28, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo\/Chris O'Meara)\" title=\"Rangers defeat Rays Austin Wynns\"\/><\/a>Texas Rangers&#8217; Austin Wynns celebrates his solo home run off Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Steven Matz with third base coach Corey Ragsdale (64) during the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 28, 2026, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo\/Chris O&#8217;Meara)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evan Carter led the way offensively for Texas with a pair of base hits, an RBI and run scored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tampa Bay had allowed three-or-fewer runs in eight consecutive games, going 6-2 in that span.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AP MLB:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers&#8217; Austin Wynns celebrates his solo home run off Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Steven Matz with third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-356609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356609","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=356609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}