Toronto Blue Jays

5thin AL East · 77-79

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Toronto Blue Jays beat the Texas Rangers

77-79 7 – 2 $Texas Rangers$ 78-78

Final · Sun, Sep 20

Game Details

Globe Life Field (Arlington) · 33,694 fans · Rangers Sports Network, Sportsnet, TVA, MLB.TV

Recap

Playoff hopeful Blue Jays avoid series sweep with 7-2 win over AL West-leading Texas

Toronto leadoff hitter Brett Bateman reached base and scored three times, twice knocked in by Nathan Lukes, and the Blue Jays beat the AL West-leading Texas Rangers 7-2 on Sunday to avoid a series sweep in the matchup of playoff hopefuls.

Recap via ESPN

Globe Life Field · Arlington

Line Score

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
TOR	1	0	1	0	1	0	4	0	0	7	11	0
TEX	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	0

Win Probability · Toronto Blue Jays

first pitchnow: 100%

Game Leaders

Toronto Blue Jays

Nathan Lukes · 2-3, 2 RBI, 2 RBatting
Spencer Arrighetti · 2.1 IP, 2 ER, 2 K (W, 9-9)Pitching

Texas Rangers

Jake Burger · 1-3, HR, 2 RBI, 1 RBatting
Jacob deGrom · 4.1 IP, 3 ER, 2 K (L, 11-10)Pitching

2026 American League East Standings

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	Strk
Tampa Bay	98	64	.605	-	L1
New York	93	68	.578	4.5	W1
Boston	87	75	.537	11	L1
Baltimore	79	82	.491	18.5	L1
Toronto	79	83	.488	19	W1

2026 American League West Standings

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	Strk
Houston	81	81	.500	-	W2
Texas	80	82	.494	1	L1
Seattle	76	86	.469	5	W2
Athletics	64	98	.395	17	L2
Los Angeles	62	100	.383	19	L2

Scoring

Top 7th

1B Giménez singled to right, McAdoo scored.7–2

Top 7th

2B McAdoo doubled to left, Lukes scored and Straw scored.6–2

Top 7th

1B Lukes singled to right, Bateman scored, Straw to second.4–2

Top 5th

1B Okamoto singled to center, Bateman scored, Straw to third.3–2

Bot 4th

HR Burger homered to left center (395 feet), Duran scored.2–2

Top 3rd

2B Keys doubled to right, Lukes scored.2–0

Top 1st

SF Lukes hit sacrifice fly to left, Bateman scored.1–0

Team Stats

Toronto Blue JaysTexas Rangers

Batting

11 Hits 8

0 Home Runs 1

6 Walks 4

5 Strikeouts 7

0 Stolen Bases 0

22 Left on Base 17

Pitching & Fielding

156 Pitches Thrown 149

0 Errors 0

3 Double Plays 6

Box Score

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Batting

Player	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	AVG	#P	OBP	SLG
B. BatemanCF	3	3	1	0	2	1	.322	30	.393	.416
V. Guerrero Jr.1B	2	0	1	0	0	0	.263	7	.336	.359
M. StrawLF	2	1	1	0	1	0	.238	11	.304	.345
N. LukesRF	3	2	2	2	1	0	.274	17	.322	.387
K. Okamoto3B	5	0	1	1	0	1	.235	13	.310	.459
S. KeysDH	2	0	1	1	1	0	.208	15	.269	.375
G. SpringerDH	1	0	0	0	0	1	.248	6	.323	.407
J. Smith3B	2	0	0	0	0	1	.215	6	.308	.338
C. McAdoo1B	3	1	1	2	0	0	.250	10	.295	.352
A. GimenezSS	5	0	1	1	0	1	.242	11	.287	.356
B. ValenzuelaC	3	0	1	0	1	0	.219	16	.304	.361
E. Clement2B	4	0	1	0	0	0	.265	7	.291	.372
Team	35	7	11	7	6	5		149

Pitching

Player	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	PC-ST	ERA
S. Miles	3.0	2	0	0	0	4	0	46-30	2.57
S. Arrighetti(W, 9-9)	2.1	2	2	2	2	2	1	43-26	4.96
M. Fluharty(H, 18)	0.1	1	0	0	1	0	0	15-10	3.28
P. Sewald(H, 3)	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3-2	4.91
J. Rodriguez	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	17-10	0.00
T. Rogers	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	16-13	1.68
L. Varland	1.0	1	0	0	1	0	0	16-9	1.29
Team	9.0	8	2	2	4	7	1	156-100

Texas Rangers ▾

Batting

Player	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	K	AVG	#P	OBP	SLG
W. LangfordLF	3	0	1	0	0	2	1	.242	28	.340	.434
C. SeagerDH	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	.231	22	.321	.426
J. Jung3B	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	.295	15	.360	.450
E. DuranSS	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	.264	17	.325	.431
A. OsunaRF	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	.259	17	.348	.299
J. Burger1B	3	1	1	2	1	1	0	.233	12	.307	.428
N. Lopez2B	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.269	5	.317	.308
J. Foscue2B	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	.272	8	.332	.493
D. JansenC	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	.201	16	.292	.363
E. CarterCF	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	.195	16	.289	.316
Team	34	2	8	2	1	4	7		156

Pitching

Player	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	PC-ST	ERA
J. deGrom(L, 11-10)	4.1	5	3	3	4	2	82-53	3.86
R. Garcia	1.2	1	0	0	0	0	11-8	2.40
T. Alexander	0.0	2	3	3	1	0	13-7	3.69
C. Silseth	0.2	1	1	1	0	1	9-7	3.39
A. Macko	2.1	2	0	0	1	2	34-22	5.23
Team	9.0	11	7	7	6	5	149-97