Texas Rangers’ Adrian Beltre, right, shakes hands with interim third base coach Spike Owen (44) after hitting a home run off Tampa Bay Rays relief pitcher Ryan Garton during the sixth inning of a baseball game Friday, Aug. 19, 2016, in St. Petersburg, Fla. In his 23 starts and 5-11 record, Smyly owns a 4.85 ERA with a 1.26 WHIP in 137.1 innings. Beltre, who cooled off for three games after recording multiple hits in seven of eight contests, launched a pair of home runs during Friday’s 6-2 victory in the series opener.Beltre’s two blasts tied him with two former Rangers – Juan Gonzalez and Andruw Jones – for 45th place on the all-time list with 434 homers. He’s now hitting.219/.265/.313 in 22 games with the Rays.
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Texas (73-51) had its four-game winning streak snapped in an 8-2 loss Saturday against the Rays.
Odorizzi (8-5) is 5-0 with a 1.64 ERA in seven starts since the All-Star break. “But we were able to work out of it after I got the strikeout of (Ian) Desmond, I was trying to get the ball in on (Adrian) Beltran and I got the weak pop-up … and find a way out of it”. Longoria drove in a run with a two-out single in the first, and Maile made it 2-0 with his first career home run in the second.
Rougned Odor hit his 23rd homer in the fourth for the only run against Odorizzi. Evan Longoria hit his 28th of the year. Nomar Mazara homered with two outs in the ninth.
Brad Miller had a three-run double in the seventh for Tampa Bay off reliever Keone Kela.
Andriese (6-5) lost his third straight start, giving up five runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings. Beltre’s 20th and 21st home runs of the season Friday night marked the 30th multi-homer game of his career.
The collective bargaining agreement allows Beltre to take bereavement leave to attend the funeral.
The Raymond & DJ Kitty Double Bobblehead giveaway will not happen at Sunday’s game after the vendor informed the Rays the shipment would not arrive on time.
Rays: SS Matt Duffy, who left Wednesday’s game after three innings due to left Achilles soreness, played.
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Logan Forsythe, however, appears to be on track to return Sunday after missing the past games with back spasms. The team said Kiermaier was bothered by left hip tightness.
