{"id":438677,"date":"2026-09-17T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438677\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:36:09","slug":"rangers-reach-500-again-and-tie-for-al-west-lead-with-7-3-victory-over-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438677\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers reach .500 again and tie for AL West lead with 7-3 victory over Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Brandon Nimmo hit a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/video\/erik-miller-in-play-no-out-to-brandon-nimmo?partnerId=web_multimedia-search_video-share\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tiebreaking double<\/a> in the seventh inning before Ezequiel Duran added a two-run single, and the surging Texas Rangers beat the Boston Red Sox 7-3 on Wednesday night to pull even with Houston atop the AL West.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Eovaldi (11-9) allowed one hit over four scoreless innings in relief and finished the game retiring his last 11 batters. He earned the win in his second appearance since missing a month on the injured list because of elbow inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers (76-76) have won four in a row to reach .500 for the first time since they were 66-66 on Aug. 24. With 10 games left, they moved into a first-place tie in the division race when the Astros lost 5-2 to Kansas City at home, though Houston owns the head-to-head tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p>Boston (82-70) has lost five of seven but holds the second American League wild card by five games over the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Erik Miller (4-1), the third of four Red Sox pitchers, worked the seventh when the Rangers scored three times.<\/p>\n<p>Boston went ahead 3-2 in the fifth after reliever Jakob Junis dropped the ball while on the rubber, resulting in a balk that sent a runner home from third base.<\/p>\n<p>That was soon after left-hander MacKenzie Gore left his 32nd start of the season, tied for most in the majors. He allowed only two hits, but walked three without a strikeout.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Foscue doubled on the first pitch thrown by Red Sox rookie starter Jake Bennett and scored on a ground-rule double by Jake Burger. Texas tied it at 2 on Foscue&#8217;s RBI single in the fourth, and Wyatt Langford had an RBI single in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Red Sox RHP Sonny Gray (17-5, 2.76 ERA) goes for his MLB-leading 18th victory in the series finale Thursday. LHP Cody Bradford (0-5, 4.72) starts for the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Brandon Nimmo hit a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning before Ezequiel Duran added&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,11725,32775,56050,152004,39233,34030,39086,91528,84002,57328,941,23681,202,196,42094,88829,942,152002,57478,88213,53646],"class_list":["post-438677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-boston","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-cody-bradford","tag-erik-miller","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-jake-bennett","tag-jake-burger","tag-jake-junis","tag-justin-foscue","tag-mackenzie-gore","tag-nathan-eovaldi","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-red-sox-rangers-score-al-west","tag-sonny-gray","tag-willson-contreras","tag-wyatt-langford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438677","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=438677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}