Toronto Blue Jays at Texas Rangers

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Toronto Blue Jays

76-78, 36-40 Away

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Texas Rangers

77-77, 43-33 Home

Corey Seager's RBI double helps Rangers beat sloppy Blue Jays 7-1 and close gap in playoff race

Toronto Blue Jays vs. Texas Rangers: Game Highlights

The Rangers (77-77) reached .500 for a majors-leading 23rd time and pulled within one game of the White Sox for the third and final AL wild-card spot, although Chicago has the tiebreaker. The defending AL champion Blue Jays (76-78) are two games back in the wild-card race.

Texas also closed the gap on Houston by pulling even with the Astros atop the AL West, but the Rangers would have to win the division outright to finish ahead of their in-state rival. Houston lost to Atlanta 6-2.

The Rangers took the lead in the second on Evan Carter's bases-loaded grounder that scored Wyatt Langford, and Jake Burger also came home when shortstop Ernie Clement's throw trying to force him out at third bounced wide of the bag into foul territory. Seager made it 4-0 with his double.

Dylan Cease (11-6) walked a season-high six among his first 15 batters and was replaced with two outs in the third after throwing 38 balls and 36 strikes.

Five of the Texas runs were unearned as the Blue Jays walked 10 and had three throwing errors, two by third baseman Kazuma Okamoto.

Trevor Williams (2-0) finished with four scoreless innings after starter Kumar Rocker took a 4-0 lead into the fifth but couldn't finish and was replaced by Tyler Alexander.

Toronto's Nathan Lukes had the longest active hitting streak in the majors stopped at 13 games when he was replaced by pinch-hitter Davis Schneider in the fifth. Lukes was 0 for 2 with a deep liner that Carter, the center fielder, ran down at the wall in right center.

Up next Blue Jays RHP José Soriano (12-7, 3.56 ERA) is set to face Texas RHP Cal Quantrill (9-5, 2.90) on Saturday.

This story is updated to correct that the Rangers scored five unearned runs, not six.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Smith lined out to right.
	9th Inning	Okamoto flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Kirk grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Osuna in right field.
	8th Inning	Lopez struck out swinging.
	8th Inning	Burger doubled to right, Langford scored.

Statistics

TOR		$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	10
7	Strikeouts	9
1	Runs Batted In	6
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
5	Hits	7
0	Stolen Bases	2
2	Walks	10
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	7
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	2
32	At Bats	31
0	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
14	Runners Left On Base	25
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	3
11	Fly Balls	14
0	Caught Stealing	0
135	Pitches	180
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
6	Total Bases	10
34	Plate Appearances	43
0.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
1	Extra Base Hits	3
0.8	Runs Created	5.6
.156	Batting Average	.226
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.188	Slugging Percentage	.323
.094	Secondary Average	.484
.206	On Base Percentage	.395
.393	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.718
1.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
0.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.6
11.0	Batter Rating	41.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.97	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.19
.031	Isolated Power	.097
0.29	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	1.11
.059	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.233
-.063	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.258
2.0	Runs Produced	13.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.9
0.2	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
64.0	MLB Rating	84.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0