ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Trevor Story hit a three-run home run off All-Star closer Jacob Latz in the eighth inning, capping a comeback from a three-run deficit as the Boston Red Sox beat Texas 4-3 on Thursday night and dropped the Rangers out of the AL West lead.<\/p>\n
Texas (76-77) had won four straight games to gain a share of the lead but dropped one game behind Houston (77-76), which holds the tiebreaker. The Rangers trail by two games for the last AL wild card.<\/p>\n
Boston (83-70) has a five-game lead for the top AL wild card and improved to 8-59 when trailing after seven innings. Texas dropped to 63-2 when leading after seven innings.<\/p>\n
Latz (3-3) entered after Wilyer Abreu walked starting the eighth and Willson Contreras was hit by a pitch from Jakob Junis.<\/p>\n
Latz struck out Adley Rutschman and Story, who is from nearby Irving, reached down for Latz’s second straight low curveball and drove the ball over the left-field wall for his fourth home run this season.<\/p>\n
Boston\u2019s Wyatt Olds (2-0) got three outs and Garrett Whitlock pitched the ninth for his fourth save in eight chances, getting Jake Burger to ground into a game-ending double play.<\/p>\n
Josh Jung hit a first-inning homer off Sonny Gray, and Texas opened a 3-0 lead in the second on Danny Jansen’s RBI single and Evan Carter’s safety squeeze bunt.<\/p>\n
Roman Anthony hit into a run-scoring forceout in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Texas\u2019 Cody Bradford followed a one-inning opener with 4 1\/3 shutout innings, seeking his first major league since Sept. 18, 2024. He missed last season following elbow surgery.<\/p>\n
Gray gave up three hits in 6 1\/3 innings, throwing a season-high 102 pitches.<\/p>\n
Red Sox: LHP Ranger Suarez (7-4, 3.33) will go against LHP Ian Seymour (9-6, 4.27) on Friday at Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n
Rangers: RHP Kumar Rocker (5-11, 4.54) starts Friday against visiting Toronto and RHP Dylan Cease (11-5, 2.38).<\/p>\n
See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Trevor Story hit a three-run home run off All-Star closer Jacob Latz in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[116161,150,152,151,56050,84825,116151,39084,152220,152219,39086,91528,64188,39085,57463,23681,202,196,42094,88829,942,38601,151720,57478,152221,88213,88212],"class_list":["post-439594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-adley-rutschman","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-cody-bradford","tag-danny-jansen","tag-dylan-cease","tag-evan-carter","tag-garrett-whitlock","tag-ian-seymour","tag-jake-burger","tag-jake-junis","tag-jake-latz","tag-josh-jung","tag-kumar-rocker","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-ranger-suarez","tag-red-sox-rangers-score","tag-sonny-gray","tag-trevor-story","tag-willson-contreras","tag-wilyer-abreu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439594","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=439594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}