ARLINGTON, Texas _ The Rangers were one out from being back at .500 but the beleaguered bullpen faltered again. The Rays hit a game-tying homer in the ninth and two homers in the 10th for a 7-5 win Wednesday night at Globe Life Park.
Austin Bibens-Dirkx held the Rays to three runs and left trailing 3-2 after 42/3 innings. Bibens-Dirkx allowed five hits and three walks and struck out two in his first major league start. Jeremy Jeffress took over in the fifth and got a groundout to end the inning. Jefffress pitched a scoreless sixth before Alex Claudio pitched two scoreless innings to get the game to closer Matt Bush. Bush had two outs in the ninth before Kevin Kiermaier's homer tied it at 4. In the 10th, Sam Dyson allowed a leadoff, go-ahead homer to Logan Morrison before a fielding error by third baseman Pete Kozma put a man on to set up Derek Norris' two-run homer to give the Rays a 7-4 lead.
Rangers DH Adrian Beltre drove in Elvis Andrus with a sacrifice fly in the first inning to give the Rangers a 1-0 lead against Rays' starter Chris Archer. It was Beltre's first RBI of 2017. Beltre led off the fourth with a double and moved to third on Rougned Odor's single to right. Beltre scored on Jonathan Lucroy's 4-6-3 double play to pull the Rangers to within 3-2. In the fifth, Mike Napoli reached on a swinging strikeout wild pitch and moved to third on Shin-Soo Choo's single to right. Napoli scored to tie it at 3 when Andrus beat out a potentially inning-ending 6-4-3 double play at first base. The Rangers took a 4-3 lead with a run in the seventh. Napoli doubles on a fly ball that bounced out of center fielder Kiermaier's glove at the wall. Kozma pinch-ran for Napoli and was later thrown out at home trying to score on Choo's grounder to short. Choo scored from first on Andrus' double to left to put the Rangers up 4-3. The Rangers added a run in the bottom of the 10th on Beltre's RBI single to shallow left but Odor ground out with the tying runs on base to end the game.
Beltre's double in the fourth inning was the 1,593rd of his career, moving him into sole possession of 18th place all time.
