Rangers 5, Rays 2 (F)

Rangers sweep the Rays and remain tied for first place with the Angels as both teams are 10 games over .500. Rangers head to Anaheim now for three games. Discuss: Small ball. The Rangers had three RBIs on sacfrice flies and had productive outs to advance runners. They didn't get the huge knocks at times, but did what they had to do to score runs. This offense the last week is showing it has some versatility with homers and the ability to manufacture runs. Michael Young. He was named to the All-Star team, showing that shifting from short to third didn't change his standing among the players as one of the top infielders in the game. And he showed some smarts in the fifth by catching a broken bat hit and then throwing quickly across the diamond to get Carl Crawford on a double play. Double plays. Twice the Rangers turned one to end innings. It helped that the Rays didn't run the bases well, but the Rangers were able to make the plays to get out of mini-jams in a close g...