The Texas Rangers defeated the Minnesota Twins 6-5 on Sunday at Globe Life Field thanks to a home run by Adolis Garcia in the bottom of the ninth.

Dallas, Texas – Adolis Garcia struck out swinging in each of his first four at-bats on Sunday.

The Texas Rangers defeated the Minnesota Twins 6-5 on Sunday at Globe Life Field when he hit a game-winning home run off of a 2-2 pitch that he threw 430 feet into the left-field stands in the ninth inning.

The Rangers (76-60) ended a six-game home losing run with their fourth walk-off victory and first since July 17.

They are now one game behind the second-placed Houston Astros, who take on the New York Yankees on Sunday night, and one game ahead of the first-place Seattle Mariners, who earlier fell to the Mets.

Since Joey Gallo’s 40 home runs in 2018, Garcia has hit a career-high 34 home runs this year, the highest by a Rangers player. His team-best 100th RBI came on the home run. After Adrián Beltré in 2012, he is the first Rangers player to have two straight seasons with 100 RBI.

“The way things have been going, we needed that,” said starter pitcher Jon Gray after he gave up three runs in five innings.

Texas quickly took the lead thanks to a three-run home ball by Mitch Garver in the first, but Royce Lewis matched the score in the fifth with a similar home run.

In the sixth, Garcia was at the plate with the bases loaded when Marcus Semien scored on a wild pitch behind Garcia’s back to give Texas a 4-3 lead.

The Twins (71-66) tied it with a run in the top of the seventh, before Garver’s second homer in the bottom of the inning again gave the Rangers a one-run lead. Lewis’ RBI double in the eighth, however, tied it up again at 5-5 to set up Garcia’s heroics.