New York Mets at Texas Rangers

· Major League Baseball

New York Mets

73-86, 37-41 Away

Final
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Texas Rangers

79-80, 45-36 Home

Rangers finish home slate with 3-1 win over Mets to keep Texas tied for AL West lead

New York Mets vs. Texas Rangers - Game Highlights

Texas stopped a three-game losing streak, and Houston won 7-5 later Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series at the Athletics. Both teams are 79-80 with three games left, with the Astros holding the head-to-head tiebreaker.

Texas, which finishes the regular season in Minnesota, went ahead to stay on Jung's two-run homer in the first inning off rookie left-hander Zac Thornton (5-6). Seager snapped an 0-for-15 skid when he led off the sixth with his 19th homer.

Rocker (6-11) struck out four while allowing one run and three hits. Jordan Montgomery, the fourth Rangers reliever, worked a perfect ninth for his second big league save. He's made 161 starts and 17 relief appearances over nine big league seasons.

Francisco Lindor led off the game with a double and scored on Carson Benge's two-out single to put New York up 1-0. Benge has 160 hits, a Mets rookie record.

Thornton struck out four and walked one in five innings. He allowed four hits and the only runs he surrendered were on Jung's 12th homer. Seager went deep off Jefry Yan, another rookie.

Jung, who finished with three hits and a walk, is hitting .341 (15 for 44) in 11 games since coming off the injured list Sept. 12. He missed 47 games because of a left calf strain.

Up next New York (73-86) goes to Washington (75-84) to open a three-game series Friday matching the teams at the bottom of the NL East standings.

Two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom (11-10) is set to start for Texas on Friday against the Twins, who never trailed while sweeping three games in Texas in mid-June.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Benge struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Bichette grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Soto grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Montgomery relieved Silseth
	9th Inning	Duran at third base.
	9th Inning	Lopez at second base.

Statistics

NYM		$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
7	Ground Balls	8
7	Strikeouts	8
1	Runs Batted In	3
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
4	Hits	7
0	Stolen Bases	0
2	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	3
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
29	At Bats	28
0	Home Runs	2
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
8	Runners Left On Base	12
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
1	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	1
15	Fly Balls	12
1	Caught Stealing	2
126	Pitches	139
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
6	Total Bases	14
31	Plate Appearances	31
0.0	Projected Home Runs	324.0
2	Extra Base Hits	3
0.0	Runs Created	3.5
.138	Batting Average	.250
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.207	Slugging Percentage	.500
.103	Secondary Average	.286
.194	On Base Percentage	.323
.400	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.823
0.5	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
0.0	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.9
12.0	Batter Rating	27.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	14.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.06	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.48
.069	Isolated Power	.250
0.29	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.38
.065	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.097
-.034	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.036
2.0	Runs Produced	6.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
63.3	MLB Rating	79.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0