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Texas Rangers @ Oakland Athletics

2026-08-16 · Day game · Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum · Att: 7343 · 85°F, Partly Cloudy · Wind 4 mph, L To R · 2:39

Athletics defeated Texas Rangers 5–2. Texas Rangers opened the scoring in the 2nd — Jake Burger homers (21) on a fly ball to right center field. Athletics took the lead in the 2nd — Lawrence Butler homers (11) on a fly ball to right field. Tommy White scores. The game's biggest swing came in the 7th: Zack Gelof homers (14) on a fly ball to right center field. Henry Bolte scores — worth 29% in win probability.

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Line score

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
TEX	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	7
OAK	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	5	13

Texas Rangers — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Wyatt Langford LF	3	1	0	0	1	0
Ezequiel Duran SS	4	0	0	0	0	2
Brandon Nimmo RF	4	0	1	0	0	2
Jake Burger 1B	4	1	3	2	0	0
Nicky Lopez 2B	0	0	0	0	0	0
Justin Foscue 2B	3	0	1	0	0	0
Jarred Kelenic PH	1	0	0	0	0	1
Cody Freeman 3B	3	0	1	0	0	1
Elias Diaz C	4	0	0	0	0	2
Austin Wynns DH	1	0	0	0	1	0
Joc Pederson DH	2	0	0	0	0	2
Evan Carter CF	3	0	1	0	0	2

Oakland Athletics — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Henry Bolte CF	5	1	3	0	0	0
Zack Gelof LF	5	1	2	2	0	0
Jacob Wilson SS	4	0	0	0	0	1
Jonah Heim C	2	0	0	0	2	1
Tommy White 3B	4	2	2	1	0	0
Lawrence Butler RF	4	1	2	2	0	0
Max Muncy DH	3	0	2	0	1	0
Alika Williams 2B	4	0	1	0	0	2
Jeff McNeil 1B	1	0	0	0	0	0
Darell Hernaiz 3B	2	0	1	0	0	1