Danny Jansen’s single gives Rangers a 6-5 win over Dbacks after both teams score 3 runs in 9th

By: Stephen Hawkins, The Associated Press Posted: 10:40 PM CDT Wednesday, May. 13, 2026

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Danny Jansen had a game-ending single with two outs as the Texas Rangers rallied for a 6-5 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday night in a frantic ninth inning that included three-run rallies by both teams.

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Jansen capped the Rangers comeback when he grounded the only pitch thrown by Juan Morillo into the left-field corner. Morillo relieved Paul Sewald (0-4), who had converted his first nine save opportunities.

Ezequiel Duran had an RBI double and Jake Burger, whose three-run homer for Texas in the fifth produced the game’s first runs, tied the game with an RBI single and chased Sewald.

Texas Rangers' Ezequiel Duran, left, Danny Jansen (9) Sam Haggerty, rear, and MacKenzie Gore, right, celebrate Jansen's run-scoring single in the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks Wednesday, May 13, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Arizona had gone ahead 5-3 in the top half. Nolan Arenado’s RBI double off Jacob Latz, the sixth of seven Texas pitchers, tied the game at 3 and Ildemaro Vargas lined a two-run single.

Cal Quantrill (2-0) took over after Latz failed to retire a batter.

Rangers shortstop Corey Seager struck out starting the ninth and finished 0 for 4, slipping into a career-worst slump.

Seager has gone seven games in a row without a hit. That is the longest hitless span in the two-time World Series MVP’s 12 big league seasons, as is the 0-for-27 span with 11 strikeouts over the last week. He has a .179 batting average.

Diamondbacks left fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr., who fouled a pitch hard off the inside of his left knee in the fourth, had an RBI double in the sixth. Arenado had a sacrifice fly in the seventh, and his double came after Corbin Carroll led off the ninth with a double and Geraldo Perdomo walked.

Rangers starter Kumar Rocker walked four and needed 97 pitches to get through five scoreless innings. Arizona right-hander Ryne Nelson, who gave up Burger’s homer, struck out eight without a walk over seven innings.

Up next

A day off for both teams before road games Friday night: Arizona at Colorado, and the Rangers in Houston.

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