Arizona Diamondbacks at Texas Rangers: Final Score & Recap

The Texas Rangers walked off the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-5 on May 13, 2026, at Globe Life Field in a game that was scoreless through four innings before erupting in a chaotic ninth. The DiamondIQ model's estimate opened with a 55 percent home win probability for Texas and closed at 100 percent, a reflection of how decisively the Rangers finished after Arizona mounted a late charge to tie things up.

The game's defining sequence came in the bottom of the ninth, where Jake Burger delivered the two biggest individual plays of the night. Burger had already provided the game's first scoring action with a home run off Ryne Nelson in the fifth inning, a swing that added 25.4 percent to Texas's win probability. But his most consequential moment came against Paul Sewald in the bottom of the ninth, when his walk-off single shifted win probability by 44.2 percent, the largest single-play swing of the contest. That blow came after Danny Jansen had extended the inning with a single off Juan Morillo worth 37.9 percent in win probability, setting the stage for Burger's decisive hit. Burger finished as the game's top performer by a wide margin, accumulating a combined WPA of plus 65.8 percent and a RE24 of plus 2.9. Jansen added plus 33.7 percent WPA on his own.

Arizona had briefly threatened to steal the game in the top of the ninth, with Nolan Arenado doubling off Jacob Latz for a plus 27.6 percent WPA swing and Corbin Carroll adding his own double worth plus 20.4 percent, helping the Diamondbacks score three runs to tie the game at five. Carroll finished with plus 28.5 percent WPA and a RE24 of plus 1.8, making him Arizona's standout offensive contributor. On the pitching side, Kumar Rocker led Texas's staff with plus 19.6 percent WPA, followed by Peyton Gray at plus 11.3 percent and Tyler Alexander at plus 10.8 percent, as the Rangers' rotation kept the Diamondbacks' offense quiet through the middle innings before the bullpen survived a turbulent finish.