{"id":1003802,"date":"2026-08-16T05:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1003802\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T05:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:04:17","slug":"langford-hists-go-ahead-homer-rangers-beat-athletics-5-3-to-end-4-game-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1003802\/","title":{"rendered":"Langford hists go-ahead homer, Rangers beat Athletics 5-3 to end 4-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Wyatt Langford hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the sixth inning and the Texas Rangers beat the Athletics 5-3 on Saturday night to end a four-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Seager, Nicky Lopez, and Jarred Kelenic each drove in a run in the Rangers&#8217; 22nd comeback victory of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie Gore (7-9) threw 5 2\/3 innings. He allowed three runs on eight hits.<\/p>\n<p>\n               <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Athletics\/status\/2088815132772327583?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Henry Bolte hit a three-run homer<\/a> for the Athletics in the second inning. Initially called a foul ball, replay review showed that the ball scraped the outside of the foul pole.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez singled to center for the Rangers&#8217; first run of the game in the fifth, and Seager added another RBI single in the sixth. Langford then launched a 421-footer to left-center on the next pitch to give the Rangers a one-run lead. Kelenic drove in one more in the ninth as a pinch-hitter.<\/p>\n<p>Three relievers combined for 3 1\/3 hitless innings and Jacob Latz worked two frames for his 24th save.<\/p>\n<p>For the A&#8217;s, Bolte was 3-for-5 with his homer and a double, the sixth three-hit game for the 23-year-old rookie. J.T. Ginn (8-7) gave up four runs on eight hits and struck out seven in six innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers LHP Cody Bradford (0-1, 2.38 ERA) was set to start against A&#8217;s LHP Jacob Lopez (5-4, 5.38) on Sunday in the final game of the series.<\/p>\n<p>See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Wyatt Langford hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the sixth inning and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1003803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,143529,3382,322502,20403,249522,218593,83656,184754,223492,223490,289007,289009,325971,324435,401861,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,75406],"class_list":["post-1003802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-cody-bradford","tag-corey-seager","tag-henry-bolte","tag-jacob-lopez","tag-jake-latz","tag-jarred-kelenic","tag-nicky-lopez","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40798-ap-nevada-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-rangers-athletics-score","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wyatt-langford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1003803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}