“It’s just a beautiful game with the game on the line,” said Rangers manager Bruce Bochy, whose 2,125th win puts him tied with the late New York Yankees manager Joe McCarthy for ninth on the regular-season list.
“What an amazing career, and the championships he won,” Bushey said. “It is humbling to be in this class.”
Seager returned to the lineup as the designated hitter against his old team after missing four games with a hamstring issue, including the series opener. The 30-year-old shortstop went 1-for-3 with a strikeout. He was a 2016 NL Rookie of the Year and 2020 NL and World Series MVP with the Dodgers, then left as a free agent after the 2021 season.
“It’s good to have Corey back. We’ve seen what he means to us,” Bochy said. “We missed him.”
Shohei Ohtani put the Dodgers ahead at first with his 17th homer on a 424-foot home run.
Will Smith singled to lead off the ninth against 37-year-old Kirby Yates and Pages walked with two outs.
Jason Heyward doubled to center, scoring Smith, but the rising Pages went through third base coach Dino Ebel’s stop sign and were tagged to the plate by Jonah Heim.
“I didn’t see the stop sign. I saw the midfielder kicking the ball and it kept going,” Buggs said through a translator. “I was going to try to score no matter what because I knew I was going to equalize.”
The catcher took second baseman Marcos Semien’s relay throw from center fielder Leody Taveras and tagged the sliding pages to the left side. Video review upheld the call of plate umpire Marvin Hudson.
“Just a big play for a big player for probably the better part of the game,” Seager said of Semien’s throw. “It’s something we always rely on him to deliver in those moments and he did that.”
Seager hit a 422-foot homer in the fifth off Buehler (1-4) after Tavares singled and stole second and Semien reached on a fielding error by new Dodgers third baseman Cavan Biggio.
“He mixed up speeds, mixed up locations, and threw a bunch of different heaters at us,” Seager said. “He’s smart, man. It was a fun fight all night.”
Seager was cheered for his first at-bat, but received boos when he stepped into the seventh inning before getting out.
“It kind of comes with the territory, I get that,” Seager said of the crowd’s reaction. “I don’t blame them.”
Jacob Lutz (2-1) pitched two scoreless innings in relief of John Gray. Yates earned his ninth save.
“What a job they did,” Boushie said.
In front of his Hall of Fame father Craig Biggio, the younger Biggio singled to lead off fifth in his first at-bat with the Dodgers. Biggio was designated for assignment by Toronto last week and was acquired Wednesday in a trade.
He started at third base and showed off his glove work early. Biggio initiated a double play that got the first two outs of the first inning. He prevented a potential double down the line by Wyatt Langford in the second, making a long throw at first that Langford barely beat. Biggio was accused of committing a foul in the fifth game when he blocked a ball that was shot by Semien.
Trainer room
Rangers: LHP Brock Burke was activated from the 60-day IL after recovering from a fractured right hand.
the next
RHP Michael Lorenzen (3-3, 3.05 ERA) starts Thursday’s series finale.
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