The Tampa Bay Rays face the Cleveland Guardians in an MLB regular season game on Friday, September 1, 2023 (9/1/23) at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio
NEW YORK — DJ Stewart homered twice, then forced in the winning run when he was hit by an Aroldis Chapman pitch with the bases loaded in the 10th inning as the New York Mets beat Texas 6-5 on Wednesday night and dropped the Rangers into third place in the tight AL West.
“We let some games slip away — we have to get better at that, there’s no getting around it,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said. “We’ll put it behind us. We’ve got a day off tomorrow. I think some fellows need a break. We’re home for a while and hopefully we’ll get clicking here with this offense.” Texas overcome a 3-0 deficit to take a 5-3 lead on Jonah Heim’s two-run single off Adam Ottavino in a three-run eighth, but Stewart hit a two-run homer against Jose Leclerc in the bottom half.
With McNeil at second as the automatic runner in the bottom half, Chapman intentionally walked Alonso before walking Francisco Álvarez on six pitches and hitting Stewart with his next pitch. Teammates mobbed Stewart at first base and Rafael Ortega placed a plastic bubble gum tub atop his head. “We bent a lot, but we stayed away from giving up a real big inning where they got away from us,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said.
Dane Dunning yielded three runs in four innings, the third straight start in which he’s lasted five innings or fewer.Stewart was hitting .229 with 16 homers in 51 games at Syracuse prior to his promotion on July 4 but is batting .279 with nine homers and 18 RBIs for the Mets — including .378 with eight homers and 15 RBIs in his last 13 games.Plate umpire Nate Tomlinson took a García foul ball off his mask in the eighth.
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