Texas Rangers at Minnesota Twins

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Texas Rangers

80-81, 35-45 Away

Final
6 - 2

Minnesota Twins

76-85, 41-39 Home

Rangers push the AL West race to the final day of the regular season with a 6-2 win over the Twins

Texas Rangers vs. Minnesota Twins: Game Highlights

Jake Burger also went deep for the Rangers, who remained tied with Houston atop the division standings at 80-81 when the Astros routed the Athletics 13-2 later. Houston holds the head-to-head tiebreaker over Texas, so the Rangers need a win Sunday at Minnesota and a Houston loss at the A's to reach the playoffs.

Following a 10-2 loss Friday and a two-hour weather delay Saturday, the Rangers scored four runs with two outs in the second inning and never looked back.

After the first two batters struck out, Nicky Lopez hit a two-out double off Twins starter Bailey Ober (7-7). Jansen's blooper dropped in for an RBI single, and a throwing error by left fielder Alan Roden allowed Jansen to reach second. Evan Carter, Alejandro Osuna and Brandon Nimmo all followed with RBI doubles to put Texas ahead 4-1.

Jansen added a leadoff homer in the fourth, and Burger hit his team-leading 28th homer in the fifth.

The bottom three batters in Texas' starting lineup went 6 for 11 with four RBI and four runs.

Making his first start since Aug. 7, Rangers right-hander Nathan Eovaldi went 4 1/3 innings and allowed a first-inning run. Left-hander Robert Garcia (2-1) earned the win with 1 2/3 scoreless innings of relief.

Lopez exited in the fourth with an injury in the area of his left ankle and heel. He was replaced in the lineup by Michael Freeman.

Texas played without third baseman Josh Jung, who was placed on the 10-day injured list with a broken right hand. Jung got hurt Friday when he was hit by a pitch.

Saturday's first pitch was delayed by rain for 2 hours, 1 minute.

Up next Texas had not announced a starting pitcher for Sunday's regular-season finale. Minnesota will start RHP Dean Kremer (4-5, 4.97 ERA), who has allowed two or fewer runs in each of his last three starts.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Caratini struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Lewis struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Martin struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Latz relieved Alexander
	9th Inning	Martin hit for Roden
	9th Inning	Burger grounded out to shortstop.

Statistics

$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX		MIN
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
7	Ground Balls	11
11	Strikeouts	7
6	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
13	Hits	8
1	Stolen Bases	0
2	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	2
0	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
38	At Bats	33
2	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
12	Runners Left On Base	14
0	Triples	1
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
4	Doubles	4
20	Fly Balls	15
1	Caught Stealing	0
149	Pitches	150
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
23	Total Bases	14
40	Plate Appearances	35
324.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
6	Extra Base Hits	5
7.9	Runs Created	3.3
.342	Batting Average	.242
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.605	Slugging Percentage	.424
.316	Secondary Average	.242
.375	On Base Percentage	.286
.980	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.710
0.4	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
8.3	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.3
52.0	Batter Rating	26.5
19.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.50	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.73	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.29
.263	Isolated Power	.182
0.18	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.29
.050	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.057
-.026	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.000
12.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.3
98.5	MLB Rating	77.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0