Rays, on a roll, compete for the scanning of the rangers

The Rays of Tampa Bay and the Texas Rangers in visit tend in opposite directions, and the Rays will seek to work this advantage for a scan of their three -game series on Thursday evening.

Brandon Lowe swayed the hot bat in the 5-4 victory Wednesday evening by the Rays, who improved at 11-3 in their last 14 games and moved three games above 0,500 for the season.

A key for Tampa Bay was better played in his new house.

The club had trouble playing early outside on the other side of the bay from its dome in Dome in Saint Petersburg, but that has changed.

The Rays have won nine of their last 10 home games in Tampa and five consecutive series. They moved to 20-19 in their new park with Wednesday’s victory.

“It is in our city; we have to start playing better here,” said Lowe, who went 3-in-4 with a circuit, a double and two products produced. “Everyone knew it. Something happened, and we started winning.”

Ryan Pepiot (3-5, 3.21 ERA), which will start for the Rays on Thursday, presented better than his record indicates.

Despite the start of 1-2 in six out of six, the right-hander displayed an MPM of 2.25 and a whip of 0.94, supported by a ratio of 22 to 8 years out of 36 rounds while writing only 26 strokes.

In his only appearance against the Rangers on April 1 of last season, they scrambled Pepiot for six points on four strokes in 5 2/3 rounds during the defeat of 9-3 of Tampa Bay. Josh Jung struck a three -point circuit during the first pepiot round.

While the Rangers are third of the majors in the team’s era (3.17), their strikes entered a funk most of the time.

The club is 28th on average at the team stick (0.222) and equally in the 17th row of the circuits with three teams at 61 years.

Rangers manager Bruce Bochy was encouraged by a fifth round of three rounds on Wednesday, and the night of the three strokes of Wyatt Langford stood out.

“Many good things have happened (offensively),” said Bochy, whose club has only won four times in his last 15 games. “We started to swing the bats and put runners on the basis. We had four points, that’s what you hope to do, maybe five. Overall, I thought that bats were better tonight.”

The Rangers will try to get back on the track Thursday behind Jack Leiter (4-2, 3.66 ERA), which is 2-0 in its last four outings.

He came out of a May in which he went 2-2 with an MPM of 4.32 in six starts, figures which were a step down compared to his performance in April. However, his last home departure against the Cardinals of Saint-Louis was the best of right-handed in 2025.

Last Friday, Leiter dispersed three strokes and withdrew six rounds in 5/3 2/3-sleeves aimed when Texas won a 11-1 victory. The overall selection n ° 2 of Vanderbilt in the 2021 draft will make its first beginning of career against the Rays.

– field level media