Texas and Minnesota played an extra game Saturday night as the Rangers beat the Twins, 4-3, in 10 innings at Target Field.
The Rangers (54-66) regained the lead in the top of the tenth as Corey Seager’s RBI single put them ahead 3-2 over ghost runner Marcus Semien from second base. Mark Mathias later drove Seager to push the lead to two runs.
The Twins (62-56) started the bottom half of the 10th with Luis Araez at second base and Carlos Correa answered with a walk from Rangers reliever Jonathan Hernández.
The Rangers got out of the inning, but it wasn’t easy. The Twins scored no hits, but scored a run on an error by Hernández, and Ares came home from third.
It was the second time in as many games the Rangers played a one-run game as they lost 2–1 on Friday. The Rangers are 2-1 in three one-run games this week. The Rangers beat Oakland Monday 2-1. The Rangers are 8-25 in one-run games this season.
Rangers starter Glenn Otto had a solid outing, though with two outs left and one runner left in the bottom of the sixth to clinch the win (which went to no decision). Otto pitched 5 2/3 innings, allowing 3 hits, 1 run (not scored), 3 walks, 1 strikeout, and 86 pitches.
Starting in August, Otto went 1-1 with a 2.56 ERA and allowed only five earned runs in 17 innings. 170 off him in those three starts. He had six walks in his final start on Monday, so some of his control issues had to be worked out.
Otto’s only allowed run was the result of a Seger error in the fifth. Twins left fielder Jake Cave hit a ground ball to Seager, but his throwing error allowed Cave to reach base first. Otto then walked catcher Gary Sanchez.
Twins first baseman Luis Ares. He hit a flare to center field that reached just above Seager’s outstretched glove and scored Cabe, tying the game at 1-1. Otto got out of the jam by letting Byron Buxton line out to left fielder Bubba Thompson. A mistake by Seager kept the game clean.
From there, the Rangers’ bullpen kept the Twins scoreless until Matt Moore gave up a game-tying run in the bottom of the eighth inning. He walked Max Kepler with his two outs, followed by Josémaranda’s line to center his drive to the field. Kepler scored from the start. This was due to Rangers his center of the field Leodi Taveras’ throw to Semien was low and Semien was unable to collect it and relay it home to his plate. .
Texas took the lead in the first inning as a result of Semien’s leadoff double. He nearly went over the fence in left field, but hit the top of the wall, came to an almost complete stop, and fell into the caution track. Semien advanced to his third on Seager’s groundout and Adris scored on his Garcia double to right field, extending his career-high hitting streak to his 17th game.
The Rangers regained the lead with a sixth off-Twins reliever Justin Smetzler, who replaced starter Chris Archer after five innings. Archer gave up only 3 of his hits and took 5. But in his first game in the bullpen of the season, Smetzler gave up a single to Nathaniel Lowe, glanced at Smeltzer’s glove and slid just under shortstop Carlos Correa’s glove. , Lowe failed to score. Garcia ran out to Jorge Polanco at second base, but he lost the ball at right and the Twins were able to put out Lowe at second base while the ball fell to the ground.
Garcia was almost picked at first, but Taveras’ single moved him to second, and he scored the go-ahead run after Ezequiel Durán’s single to left scored Garcia.
Rowe, who had hits in the 10th inning, had a four-hit night in Texas.
The Rangers are finally putting their drama in the rearview mirror.The Rangers fired team president Jon Daniels and put general manager Chris Young in charge of all baseball operations Wednesday. The move by the team’s primary owner Ray Davis comes two days after Daniels and Young fired manager Chris Woodward and promoted third base coach Tony Beasley to interim manager.
The Rangers will continue the series as Kohei Arihara starts at 1:10pm on Sunday. Cole Ragans kicks off the series finale on Monday.
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