Jonah Heim, Rangers rally for 10-inning win over Red Sox
Aug 14, 2024; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Boston Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen (28) tags out Texas Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien (2) during the first inning at Fenway Park. Mandatory Credit: Brian Fluharty-USA TODAY Sports Jonah Heim began the 10th inning with a two-run homer as the visiting Texas Rangers rallied for seven runs from the eighth inning on en route to a 9-7 win over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday.
Texas homered four times and totaled 15 hits while salvaging the finale of a three-game series.
Wyatt Langford (3-for-5, three runs) hit a game-tying, three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning to force extras. Adolis Garcia went deep twice as part of a 3-for-5 night, while Josh Smith was 3-for-6 with two doubles for the Rangers.
Texas reliever Matt Festa (1-1) threw 1 1/3 scoreless innings to nab the win, and Kirby Yates tossed a scoreless bottom of the 10th for his 21st save.
Masataka Yoshida went 3-for-4, Romy Gonzalez drove in three run and Wilyer Abreu homered for Boston, which scored three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to take a 7-4 lead.
In the top of the eighth, Garcia's second homer and Boston shortstop David Hamilton's error on a Leody Taveras' two-out grounder tied the game.
With two outs in Boston's half of the inning, Yoshida doubled off the left field wall and Rafael Devers was intentionally walked, setting up Danny Jansen's go-ahead single that scored pinch runner Connor Wong.
The throw on Jansen's hit moved both remaining runners into scoring position, and Gonzalez's line double into the left field corner scored both.
None of it mattered, though, as a would-be, game-ending double play that wasn't behind Josh Winckowski gave Langford life for his homer.
Heim's game-winning shot came in the leadoff at-bat against Zack Kelly (4-2) in the 10th.
The Rangers grabbed a 1-0 lead in the second when Taveras lifted a sacrifice fly to left.
The Red Sox went ahead in the bottom of the frame, scoring first on a Nick Sogard safety squeeze and taking the lead on a Hamilton single.
Garcia to make it a 2-2 game on a line-drive solo homer to left-center field leading off the sixth.
Abreu hit a leadoff blast to right-center in the bottom of the sixth before Gonzalez's sac fly -- on which Devers was doubled off to end the inning -- put the hosts back ahead.
Sogard left with an apparent injury in the ninth inning.
--Field Level Media
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