Rangers first blow it, then comeback for win in 10th

The Rangers scored three times in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Athletics 5-4. Rougned Odor was hit by a pitch to drive in the winning run. Adrian Beltre was intentionally walked by reliever Marc Rzepczynski to load the bases before Odor’s at-bat. He was hit by the first pitch he saw. Carlos Beltran’s two-run single to center field tied the game at 4-4. The A’s scored once in the ninth to force extra innings and added two runs in the 10th to take a 4-2 lead.

Alex Claudio replaced injured starter Lucas Harrell in the third inning and held the Athletics down long enough for the Rangers to come back to take a 2-1 lead. Claudio held Oakland scoreless over four innings. Harrell left with a right groin strain trailing 1-0 after two innings.

Pitching: Harrell left trailing 1-0 after walking in a run in the second, the last of three consecutive walks by Harrell. The A’s loaded the bases with no outs in the first but Harrell escaped unscathed after getting a line out to short and a double play when Adrian Beltre fielded Billy Butler’s grounder, touched third and threw to first to end the inning. Claudio took over to start the third and allowed two hits and a walk in four scoreless innings of relief. Jake Diekman struck out two in a perfect seventh and Jeremy Jeffress pitched a scoreless eighth. Sam Dyson blew his fourth save in the ninth as the A’s tied it on Danny Valencia’s single to right. In the 10th, Keone Kela walked leadoff hitter Brett Eibner, who gave the A’s a 3-2 lead on Yonder Alonzo’s double to right. Alonzo scored on Ryon Healy’s single to left to make it 4-2.

Hitting: Carlos Beltran doubled to the left-field corner with one out in the fourth. He moved to third on Adrian Beltre’s fly out to center but Rougned Odor grounded out to end the inning. A’s starter Andrew Triggs left with two outs and Robinson Chirinos on second when Beltran tied it with a single to the right-field corner off Ryan Dull. Odor started the seventh with a walk and moved to third on Mitch Moreland’s infield single to first. Elvis Andrus’ sacrifice fly scored Odor to give Texas a 2-1 lead.

Notable: Triggs’ 5 2/3 innings is a career-high ... Claudio was a 1/3 of an inning shy of tying his career-high of 4 1/3 scoreless innings ... Beltran needs four hits to tie Ernie Banks for 87th all-time at 2,583 ... Beltran collected his 24th four-hit game and second this season.

This story was originally published August 16, 2016 at 10:51 PM with the headline "Rangers first blow it, then comeback for win in 10th."