Box Score - Sports - Mlb - Rangers Beat Rays 4

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) Once again, your glimpse perfectly secure less than this roof at Tropicana Field.

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Game 1: with TEX

TAM 9, TEX 0 - Final

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Game 2: at TEX

TAM 6, TEX 8 - Final

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Game 3: at TAM

TEX 4, TAM 3 - Final

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Game 4: at TAM

Tue, Oct late 2003 - 2:07 pm EDT

TV: TBS

*Game 5: at TEX

Thu, Oct 06 - 5:07 pm EDT

TV: TBS

* - If necessary

Series Breakdown

Colby Lewis David Price Mike Napoli struck your go-ahead homer as well as protecting AL winners lasted your unreliable effort from your bullpen to hold out of your 4-3 Monday in Game a few in their best-of-five playoff.

The Rangers next right division sequence road earn matched that third-longest skills with significant league background along with gave these folks a 2-1 head planning towards Game 4. Texas claimed three ALDS online games during Tampa Bay 12 months ago, when the item removed your Rays around all 5 games.

The Rangers will give left-hander Matt Harrison that will that pile Tuesday next to out of law school Jeremy Hellickson .

We don t take these kind of individuals lightly general health ve received momentum, many people ve got a great deal of heart, Rangers CEO and president Nolan Ryan said. That fears you your lot, and so we realize we all ve got our own fingers full by using them.

Playing while in front of the very first sellout in your house seeing that opening day time and hoping to recapture the particular wonder of clinching the particular AL wild unit card in the regular-season fianle, Tampa Bay became your set of two with solo house runs from out of law school Desmond Jennings .

The Rays saved it helpful by way of scoring twice off of Rangers relievers before Neftali Feliz acquired a number of outs regarding his or her second help save of the series.

Texas finally baseman Adrian Beltre , playing heavy and also protecting that line to be able to prevent a twice from the ninth, going an around-the-horn twice have fun with with Kelly Shoppach s grounder to absolve it.

It was a few in the toughest innings that marilyn and i knowledgeable most of year. I feel merely and so delighted we were competent to receive the 27th out, Rangers director Ron Washington claimed with the late-game drama.

Lately, competitors realize that difficult to accomplish alongside Tampa Bay.

Believe me, this particular factor seriously isn't over, Rays supervisor Joe Maddon said. You can see what we have done within the beyond month.

The Rays corrected your nine-game deficit with Boston inside the particular wild-card standings after Sept. three or more and claimed their own next postseason berth in four decades by means of mastering your seven-run debt that will conquer the actual Yankees and border the Red Sox for that playoff identify on impressive homer previous Wednesday in the 12th inning.

And equally Tampa Bay rallied to settle amongst players Monday night, Maddon expects his crew for you to jump again inside Game 4.