Texas Rangers at Minnesota Twins

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Texas Rangers

80-82, 35-46 Away

Final
4 - 6

Minnesota Twins

77-85, 42-39 Home

Rangers eliminated from postseason contention on final day with 6-4 loss to Twins

Rangers fall in finale, miss out on playoff bid

Texas (80-82) needed a win and a Houston loss to the Athletics. The Astros (81-81), who held the division tiebreaker, beat the Athletics 9-0.

Minnesota finished 77-85, a seven-win improvement in manager Derek Shelton's first season.

Kremer (5-5) gave up three hits, retiring 15 of his last 16 hitters. He went 4-1 with a 3.48 ERA in 10 starts after the Twins acquired him from Baltimore on Aug. 1.

Bell's first-inning sacrifice fly fly was offset by Danny Jansen's third-inning solo homer for the Rangers. Bell put the Twins ahead for good at 3-1 with a two-run homer off reliever Chase Silseth (0-2).

Texas used six pitchers through the first five innings as manager Skip Schumaker tried to exploit matchup advantages, but the Twins stretched their lead to 5-1 in the fifth. Walker Jenkins led off with a single against Tyler Alexander. Jakob Junis then entered the game and walked three of the next four hitters, forcing in a run.

Kody Clemens greeted Jordan Montgomery with an RBI single.

Elias Diaz homered off A.J. Minter in the eighth, but Royce Lewis hit a solo homer in the bottom half.

Corey Seager hit his 20th home run of the year, a two-run shot off Andrew Morris, in the ninth.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Duran flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Burger struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Seager homered to right center (387 feet), Nimmo scored.
	9th Inning	Langford popped out to second.
	9th Inning	Nimmo singled to center.
	9th Inning	Morris relieved Minter

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	1
8	Ground Balls	6
5	Strikeouts	6
4	Runs Batted In	6
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	10
0	Stolen Bases	1
0	Walks	5
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	6
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
31	At Bats	31
3	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
4	Runners Left On Base	19
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
19	Fly Balls	20
0	Caught Stealing	2
99	Pitches	138
0	Games Started	0
3	Pinch At Bats	0
1	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
15	Total Bases	17
32	Plate Appearances	38
486.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
3	Extra Base Hits	3
2.8	Runs Created	6.9
.194	Batting Average	.323
.333	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.484	Slugging Percentage	.548
.290	Secondary Average	.355
.194	On Base Percentage	.421
.677	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.969
0.4	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.3
2.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	7.7
31.0	Batter Rating	43.0
10.3	At Bats Per Home Run	15.5
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.33
3.09	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.63
.290	Isolated Power	.226
0.00	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.83
.000	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.132
.097	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.032
8.0	Runs Produced	12.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.3
80.8	MLB Rating	92.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0