Texas Rangers at Cleveland Guardians

· Major League Baseball

Texas Rangers

81-79, 33-46 Away

Final
7 - 3

Cleveland Guardians

86-74, 43-36 Home

Guardians remain tied in the AL Central after 7-3 loss to Rangers

Texas Rangers vs. Cleveland Guardians: Game Highlights

The Guardians (86-74) remained tied with Detroit for the AL Central lead after the Boston Red Sox rallied for a 4-3 victory over the Tigers.

The Guardians have a magic number of one to clinch a postseason spot — win and/or Astros loss —after the Los Angeles Angels rallied for a 4-3 victory over Houston. The Astros are one game back for the final wild-card spot.

Cleveland also has a magic number of two — wins and/or Detroit losses — to wrap up the division.

If Cleveland and Detroit end up tied after Sunday’s games, the Guardians would win the AL Central due to an 8-5 advantage in the season series and host a Wild Card Series starting Tuesday.

Kyle Manzardo had a two-run homer to center in the first inning for the Guardians, who have dropped consecutive games for the first time since Sept. 2.

Leiter (10-10) continued his mastery of Cleveland after throwing seven shutout innings with 10 strikeouts on Aug. 23. The 25-year old right-hander went seven innings for the third time in 34 career starts and allowed two runs on four hits while throwing 101 pitches.

Texas, which won for only the second time in its last 10 games, got its first two batters aboard before Rowdy Tellez hit a one-out, RBI double off the wall in left-center. With two outs, Osuna lined a hanging curveball off Cleveland starter Slade Cecconi (7-7) into the stands in right-center to make it 4-0.

The Guardians cut the deficit in half in the bottom of the first on Manzardo's two-run drive to center field.

Key moment The Rangers got some breathing room in the seventh on a two-run single by Cody Freeman with the bases loaded. Jake Burger added an RBI base hit to make it 7-2.

Key stat Osuna has a hit in eight of Texas’ last nine games. He is batting .211 this season, but has a team-leading .304 average in September, going 17 of 56.

Up next On Saturday, Texas will go with LHP Jacob Latz (2-0, 2.80 ERA) while Cleveland will counter with LHP Joey Cantillo (5-3, 3.21 ERA).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Schneemann struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Arias to second on fielder's indifference.
	9th Inning	Arias singled to center, Ramírez scored.
	9th Inning	Ramírez to second on fielder's indifference.
	9th Inning	Naylor flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Manzardo flied out to right.

Statistics

$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX		CLE
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
10	Ground Balls	10
9	Strikeouts	11
7	Runs Batted In	3
0	Sacrifice Hit	1
12	Hits	5
0	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
7	Runs	3
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
39	At Bats	31
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
16	Runners Left On Base	10
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	1
20	Fly Balls	11
0	Caught Stealing	0
151	Pitches	141
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
16	Total Bases	9
40	Plate Appearances	34
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
2	Extra Base Hits	2
5.2	Runs Created	1.7
.308	Batting Average	.161
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.410	Slugging Percentage	.290
.128	Secondary Average	.194
.325	On Base Percentage	.212
.735	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.502
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
5.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.7
45.0	Batter Rating	22.0
39.0	At Bats Per Home Run	31.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.78	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.15
.103	Isolated Power	.129
0.11	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.18
.025	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.059
-.179	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.032
14.0	Runs Produced	6.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.4	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.2
92.3	MLB Rating	70.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0