Rangers Outlast Indians, 14-7
The Texas Rangers and Cleveland Indians played in record heat and almost played to record time Thursday night at Arlington, Texas.
In a game that took four hours, 21 minutes, one minute short of the major league mark for a nine-inning game, the Rangers stopped a five-game losing streak with a 14-7 victory.
Chad Curtis hit a tiebreaking seventh-inning double and Rusty Greer followed with a two-run single.
“I knew it was a long game. That’s a record I’m glad we didn’t get,” Indian Manager Charlie Manuel said.
B.J. Waszgis got the go-ahead rally started in the seventh inning of a 6-6 game with a one-out single off Steve Karsay (4-6).
Waszgis went to second on Luis Alicea’s single and scored on Curtis’ double to right.
Greer, who went five for six with four RBIs, drove in Alicea and Curtis with a single up the middle to make the score 9-6.
Alicea scored a club record-tying five runs.
The loss ended Cleveland’s three-game winning streak and trimmed its wild-card race lead to one game over idle Boston.
Detroit 6, Baltimore 1--Juan Encarnacion singled in the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning and Deivi Cruz homered for the Tigers at Baltimore.
Tampa Bay 2, Kansas City 1--Bobby Smith doubled home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning as the Devil Rays won at St. Petersburg, Fla.
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