Boston Red Sox at Texas Rangers

· Major League Baseball

Boston Red Sox

83-70, 45-33 Away

Final
4 - 3

Texas Rangers

76-77, 42-33 Home

Trevor Story's 3-run homer lifts Red Sox to 4-3 win, dropping Rangers into 2nd place in AL West

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.

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.

Latz (3-3) entered after Wilyer Abreu walked starting the eighth and Willson Contreras was hit by a pitch from Jakob Junis.

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.

Boston’s 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.

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.

Roman Anthony hit into a run-scoring forceout in the seventh.

Texas’ 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.

Gray gave up three hits in 6 1/3 innings, throwing a season-high 102 pitches.

Up Next Red Sox: LHP Ranger Suarez (7-4, 3.33) will go against LHP Ian Seymour (9-6, 4.27) on Friday at Tampa Bay.

Rangers: RHP Kumar Rocker (5-11, 4.54) starts Friday against visiting Toronto and RHP Dylan Cease (11-5, 2.38).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Burger grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Langford out at second.
	9th Inning	Langford walked.
	9th Inning	Nimmo grounded out to first.
	9th Inning	Whitlock relieved Gamboa
	9th Inning	Gasper popped out to first.
	9th Inning	Anthony grounded out to second.

Statistics

BOS		$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
10	Ground Balls	10
6	Strikeouts	7
4	Runs Batted In	3
0	Sacrifice Hit	2
5	Hits	4
0	Stolen Bases	0
5	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	3
0	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
32	At Bats	27
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
15	Runners Left On Base	8
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	0
16	Fly Balls	12
0	Caught Stealing	0
167	Pitches	133
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
9	Total Bases	7
38	Plate Appearances	33
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
2	Extra Base Hits	1
3.0	Runs Created	1.3
.156	Batting Average	.148
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.281	Slugging Percentage	.259
.281	Secondary Average	.259
.289	On Base Percentage	.258
.571	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.517
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
3.0	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.3
26.0	Batter Rating	19.0
32.0	At Bats Per Home Run	27.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.39	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.03
.125	Isolated Power	.111
0.83	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.57
.132	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.121
.125	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.111
8.0	Runs Produced	6.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.2
74.3	MLB Rating	70.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0