Rangers recap: Hamilton homers early, DeShields homers late to lead Texas over

Tampa Bay Rays relief pitcher Jake McGee during a baseball game against the New York Yankees Wednesday, September 28, 2011, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Hamilton hit a sacrifice fly to deep center to score Beltre and Elvis Andrus followed with a single to score Moreland for the insurance run. Mike Napoli is 2-for-2 with a double and a walk versus Karns, who gave up two runs in seven innings to beat Texas on May 8.Perez did not receive a decision last time out after permitting three runs (two earned) in six frames of an 11-3 victory at Seattle. Shawn Tolleson worked the ninth for his 22nd save in 23 chances – all since May 20.

The former AL MVP continues to be being bothered by soreness in his left knee, however an MRI earlier Friday cleared him to rejoin Texas’ lineup for the collection opener after lacking two video games. The Rays are 7-3 in their last 10 games, 27-25 on the road, and they are five games back in AL East. As a team the Rays are hitting.

The Texas Rangers proceed to hover across the.

Rays: RHP Chris Archer (10-8, 2.62 ERA) had a career-high 12 strikeouts in his only previous start at Texas, and he struck out six consecutive batters last August.

The Tampa Bay Rays have climbed back into the American League playoff race by winning four straight and start a Lone Star State trip with the first of three against the Texas Rangers on Friday.

In the third, the Rays took their first lead when Longoria’s double to left-center scored catcher Curt Casali and right fielder Brandon Guyer. Delino DeShields had tied the game in the seventh on his first home run against reliever Steve Geltz.

Moreland was 1-for-4 a day after registering a career-high four hits in a victory over Minnesota. “Mitch had a big-at-bat tonight”. Tampa third baseman Longoria stepped on third for the force out and threw across the diamond for the double play.

“We have a great pen”. “I think that’s just kind of the telltale sign is being able to feel comfortable out on the mound, knowing that I can go out there as 100 percent as I can, trying to make pitches and just being able to do that rep after rep. Everything felt pretty good”. He threw what he called a normal bullpen session before Friday’s game.

Tampa Bay right-hander Nate Karns, who grew up in Arlington and leads all rookies with 125 strikeouts, had trouble with his command in 4 2/3 innings of work, giving up two runs on two hits and five walks. The Rays activated OF Desmond Jennings, who has been out since April with a knee injury, and optioned OF Joey Butler to Triple-A Durham.3. He will be re-evaluated Saturday….