Texas 6, Tampa Bay 4
When: 7:10 PM ET, Thursday, April 15, 2021
Where: Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Marty Foster, 1B -
Jim Wolf, 2B -
Shane Livensparger, 3B -
Sam Holbrook
Attendance:
4217
By Field Level Media
Adolis Garcia hit his first major league homer in the 10th inning, lifting the Texas Rangers to a 6-4 win Thursday night over the Tampa Bay Rays in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The Rangers took their fourth lead of the night when Garcia rocketed a two-run, opposite-field homer to right. The shot off Cody Reed (0-1), the Rays' sixth pitcher, also scored Jose Trevino, who was placed on second with the extra-innings rule.
Josh Sborz (1-0) posted his first career win with a scoreless ninth inning, and Ian Kennedy collected his third save with a perfect 10th inning.
Nick Solak was 3-for-5 with a homer, two runs and two RBIs, Charlie Culberson went deep and Isiah Kiner-Falefa notched two hits for Texas, which won three of four games in the series.
Rangers starter Jordan Lyles pitched 5 1/3 innings and yielded three runs on five hits. He walked one and fanned four.
Tampa Bay's Mike Brosseau hit a two-run homer and a double. Francisco Mejia notched two hits for the Rays, who fell to 0-3 in extra innings this season.
Rays left-hander Rich Hill allowed four runs and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings. He walked two and struck out two.
With two outs in the second, Solak jumped on a 91 mph four-seam fastball from Hill and sent a deep drive to center field that went out for a 1-0 lead.
In Tampa Bay's three-hit third, Meadows evened the game at 1 by ripping the first pitch he saw from Lyles for a one-out single to right, driving home Brosseau.
Culberson recorded his sixth hit in three games when he launched Hill's 0-2 slider out to left for his second homer of the series -- scoring Solak to make it 3-1 in the fourth.
Brosseau matched the blast in the bottom half, uncorking his first long ball on a center-cut 0-2 fastball to plate Margot, tying the score at 3.
In the fifth, Hill's one-out walk to Joey Gallo eventually led to a run. Solak singled off Andrew Kittredge to collect his fifth RBI in the series for a 4-3 Texas lead.
In the seventh, catcher Trevino's throwing error to second sent Brett Phillips to third, and center fielder Leody Taveras' long toss to third hit the runner's helmet -- bouncing away and allowing Phillips to score on the second error.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Texas |
|
Tampa Bay |
Jordan Lyles
|
Player |
Rich Hill
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
5.1 |
IP |
4.1 |
4 |
Strikeouts |
2 |
5 |
Hits |
7 |
5.06 |
ERA |
8.31 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Texas
|
11 |
3 |
20 |
.282 |
14 |
8 |
6 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
Tampa Bay
|
7 |
1 |
12 |
.189 |
20 |
12 |
3 |
8 |
1 |
0 |