{"id":428375,"date":"2026-09-07T00:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/428375\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T00:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T00:05:02","slug":"aranda-hits-3-run-homer-in-the-10th-to-give-rays-a-6-3-win-over-the-rangers-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/428375\/","title":{"rendered":"Aranda hits 3-run homer in the 10th to give Rays a 6-3 win over the Rangers | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/2096413613225332917\/video\/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jonathan Aranda hit a three-run home run<\/a> in the 10th inning to give the Tampa Bay Rays a 6-3 victory over the Texas Rangers on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay (85-57) has won two straight after losing the opener of the four-game series and has the best record in the American League at 85-57.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers (70-73) went into the game facing their largest deficit in the AL West race at three games. Texas trails Cleveland by two games in the race for the league&#8217;s final wild card.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Walls opened the 10th with a sacrifice bunt that advanced automatic runner Jorge Mateo to third base. Rangers closer Jacon Latz (3-2) then intentionally walked Yandy D\u00edaz before Aranda homered into the home bullpen beyond right field.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay\u2019s Tyler Wells (4-2) pitched two scoreless innings to earn the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Caminero hit a solo homer in the first and Richie Palacios added a solo shot in the fifth to give the Rays a 2-0 lead. Caminero\u2019s shot in the first was his AL-leading 38th of the season. Palacios hit his career-high eighth in the fifth; it was his second in two games and third in the last four.<\/p>\n<p>Both Tampa Bay homers were hit off Rangers starter Jacob deGrom, who gave up four hits in six innings while striking out seven and walking one. DeGrom has allowed a major league-high 10 homers in first innings this season. He has a 9.00 ERA in 27 first innings this year and 2.79 ERA after that.<\/p>\n<p>Liam Hicks knocked in Aranda in the eighth on Tampa Bay\u2019s third consecutive two-out single.<\/p>\n<p>Rays starter Drew Rasmussen allowed one run on three hits in seven innings while gunning for his eighth consecutive win.<\/p>\n<p>Joc Pederson hit his team-high 25th homer for Texas in the sixth inning. The Rangers tied the score at 3 in the eighth off Kevin Kelly on Evan Carter\u2019s leadoff homer and Justin Foscue\u2019s liner to left center that got between Chandler Simpson and Cedric Mullins and scored pinch-runner Cam Cauley.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Rangers LHP MacKenzie Gore (8-10, 4.31 ERA) will start Sunday afternoon. The Rays have not announced a starter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jonathan Aranda hit a three-run home run in the 10th inning to give the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,154],"class_list":["post-428375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}