{"id":439770,"date":"2026-09-18T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439770\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:56:09","slug":"trevor-storys-3-run-homer-lifts-red-sox-to-4-3-win-dropping-rangers-into-2nd-place-in-al-west-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/439770\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Story&#8217;s 3-run homer lifts Red Sox to 4-3 win, dropping Rangers into 2nd place in AL West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            http:\/\/www.bozemandailychronicle.com offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced.\n        <\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>Latz (3-3) entered after Wilyer Abreu walked starting the eighth and Willson Contreras was hit by a pitch from Jakob Junis.<\/p>\n<p>Latz struck out Adley Rutschman and Story, who is from nearby Irving, reached down for Latz&#8217;s second straight low curveball and drove the ball over the left-field wall for his fourth home run this season.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Josh Jung hit a first-inning homer off Sonny Gray, and Texas opened a 3-0 lead in the second on Danny Jansen&#8217;s RBI single and Evan Carter&#8217;s safety squeeze bunt.<\/p>\n<p>Roman Anthony hit into a run-scoring forceout in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Gray gave up three hits in 6 1\/3 innings, throwing a season-high 102 pitches.<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Rangers: RHP Kumar Rocker (5-11, 4.54) starts Friday against visiting Toronto and RHP Dylan Cease (11-5, 2.38).<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bozemandailychronicle.com offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Trevor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1816,38990,151721,151720,154],"class_list":["post-439770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-baseball","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-red-sox-rangers-score","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439770","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=439770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}