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Four-panel full-color baseball comic with cartoon stand-ins. Panel 1: Rays batter hits a three-run homer in the 10th. Panel 2: final Rays 6 Rangers 3. Panel 3: AL-best 85-57 banner. Panel 4: clipboard about never leading and never trailing by more than three.
Four panels: a cartoon Rays batter clears the bullpen in the 10th, a 6-3 final, an 85-57 AL-best banner, and a Rangers September oddity clipboard. · Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: AP, Sept. 5, 2026.

Sports

Aranda’s 10th-inning blast lifts the Rays past Texas, 6-3

What happened

The Associated Press box from Saturday night at Tropicana Field has Jonathan Aranda’s three-run homer in the 10th lifting the Tampa Bay Rays past the Texas Rangers, 6-3. Caminero had already gone deep for his 38th of the season. Extra innings started with the automatic runner rules in play; Aranda’s blast turned a tense night into a walk-off celebration and padded an AL-best Rays record at 85-57 as of that filing. The AP game story is the source of record for the score, the inning, and the season totals this desk is quoting.

Rangers September oddities are part of the same wire: stretches where Texas neither led nor trailed by more than three runs, a weird flatline that still produced a loss once Aranda cleared the wall. Rays pitching and contact baseball keep showing up in these late-season box scores the way a desk that only rewrites dated wires likes them — numbers first, drama second. This is not a season retrospective. It is one night’s AP score with a three-run tenth.

Why it matters

Sports packages here are dated scoreboard comics. A tenth-inning three-run shot that decides a Rays–Rangers game is the whole strip: the Trop, the automatic runner, Aranda’s swing, the 85-57 board. Bright uniforms and night-game lights. White gutters. No farm-system speculation and no political asides. The AP URL is the receipt.

September baseball rewards the nights that still matter for the standings. An AL-best club winning in extras is a clean Sports slot for a Sunday filing. Cartoon players only — never likenesses of living athletes. Keep the caption on the inning and the score.

Conclusion

Aranda’s three-run homer in the 10th gave the Rays a 6-3 win over the Rangers and kept Tampa Bay at 85-57 atop the AL, per AP. Source: https://apnews.com/article/rays-rangers-score-56fa6f5eb02ab3369dd9bd8542fbe671

Source: AP News