Rangers Score Five In 8th, Come Back To Nip A’s 8-6

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Jonah Heim deed a two-run location tally with 2 outs successful the eighth to headdress a five-run rally, lifting the Texas Rangers past the Oakland Athletics 8-6 connected Saturday.

Trailing 6-2 aft being held down by starter Cole Irvin, the Rangers took vantage of the A’s struggling bullpen. DJ Peters deed a two-run location tally and Yohel Pozo added an RBI treble disconnected Sergio Romo earlier Heim’s homer connected an 0-2 transportation from Andrew Chafin (1-3). The shot traveled an estimated 447 feet.

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“I don’t deliberation I’ve ever deed a shot that far,” said Heim, who spent past play successful Oakland earlier being traded to Texas successful the offseason arsenic portion of a woody that included Elvis Andrus. “As a young squad and young guys, it shows you tin triumph a ballgame astatine immoderate time. It conscionable proves to these guys to enactment connected people and support warring until the past out.”

It’s the sixth clip successful 76 games this play that the Rangers person travel backmost to triumph aft trailing going into the eighth.

“I conscionable emotion however the guys rallied astir each other,” manager Chris Woodward said. “We fell down and it’s casual to benignant of constitute that 1 off. It’s a playoff-contending team, they’re clawing and scratching to marque the playoffs. In that eighth inning guys had prime at-bats 1 aft the other. Huge hits. One of our champion wins, if not the best, of the year.”

Matt Olson, Starling Marte and Mark Canha homered for the A’s.

Oakland, which entered the time 1 crippled down the Yankees for the 2nd AL chaotic card, has 8 blown saves successful the past 19 games.

“We person a batch of assurance successful Romo and Chafin finishing disconnected that game. It conscionable didn’t happen,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said. “It’s hard to springiness up 5 successful the eighth inning erstwhile you consciousness similar you person the crippled successful control.”

Texas hadn’t done overmuch earlier the eighth inning. Nick Solak had an RBI treble and scored connected Yozo’s azygous successful the 4th but the Rangers stranded 2 connected successful the 2nd and had lone 1 batter scope basal from the 5th done the seventh.

Heim’s location tally was the archetypal by the Rangers successful 5 games.

“I’m conscionable gladsome I could enactment unneurotic a bully at-bat for the team,” Heim said. “I got that 1 beauteous good. When you deed a shot that bully you tin respect it a small bit.”

Leody Tavares connected disconnected Yusmeiro Petit successful the ninth.

Brett Martin (4-4) retired 3 batters to win. Joe Barlow pitched the ninth for his 5th save.

The A’s nonaccomplishment spoiled a beardown commencement by Irvin, who had 8 strikeouts successful 7 crisp innings. The left-hander allowed six hits and 2 runs with 1 walk.

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“Today was a bully time for me,” Irvin said. “A heartbreaking loss, though.”

Olson deed his 33rd location tally successful the 3rd inning – and got his 500th vocation deed astatine the aforesaid time. Canha added a two-run changeable successful the fourth. Marte homered successful the first.

All 3 location runs came disconnected exigency starter Wes Benjamin, who got the telephone aft scheduled starter Kolby Allard was a precocious scratch due to the fact that of an illness. Benjamin allowed six hits and six runs successful 3 1/3 innings.

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Nathaniel Lowe was successful the on-deck ellipse successful the eighth inning erstwhile helium got deed successful the close genu by a foul shot from Peters, who appeared to beryllium trying to cheque his swing. Lowe chuckled aft getting deed and stayed successful the game, past drew a locomotion and scored connected Pozo’s double.

BASSITT BACK ON A MOUND

Injured A’s ace Chris Bassitt threw 30 pitches successful his instrumentality to the mound for the archetypal clip since getting deed successful the caput by a 100 mph enactment thrust successful mid-August.

“It was conscionable much astir getting him connected a mound, getting comfy throwing again,” Melvin said. “Obviously we’ve got to marque definite everything’s healed successful determination and the doctors person to wide him, but aft that, with him it’s going to beryllium each systems go.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Rangers: Allard could perchance transportation retired of the bullpen Sunday, according to Woodward. … OF Willie Calhoun is expected to statesman a rehab duty with Triple-A Round Rock connected Monday. Calhoun has been retired since suffering a breached near limb successful precocious June. RHP Drew Anderson (COVID-19 IL) and IF/OF Brock Holt (COVID-19 IL) are besides connected rehab assignments with Round Rock.

Athletics: 3B Matt Chapman came retired for chartless reasons successful the 5th inning. … RHP Mike Fiers (sprained close elbow) volition transportation successful a rehab crippled with Triple-A Las Vegas adjacent week. Fiers hasn’t pitched successful the majors since May 6.

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RHP James Kaprielian (7-4, 3.81 ERA) makes his 20th commencement of the play Sunday, the astir by an A’s rookie since 2017. Kaprielian is unbeaten successful six starts since returning from a close enarthrosis impingement wounded that landed him connected the injured list. Rangers LHP Taylor Hearns (5-4, 3.95) is winless successful 5 vocation games against Oakland.