Rangers Use Eight-Run First to Down Astros 10-7
· Yahoo Sports
ARLINGTON, Texas -- It’s hard to respond much better to being no-hit than the Texas Rangers did on Tuesday night at Globe Life Field.
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After a pre-game hitters' meeting that featured Brandon Nimmo stepping up and encouraging the team, the Rangers wiped away the struggles from what had occurred just 24 hours ago.
The Rangers exploded for an eight-run first inning to take down the Houston Astros 10-7 and even the series at one game apiece.
“It doesn’t make any sense sometimes,” Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said when talking about what the game of baseball has done to his team over the last two days.
“We’re trying to think about different ways to win games last night late at night and again this morning, and then we come out and walk and slug," he said. "A crazy game, but I think the first inning set the tone.”
Texas loaded the bases within the first five batters of the game, and then Jake Burger came through with a two-RBI single to put the first pair of runs on the board.
Evan Carter was the very next batter, and he laced a two-run triple down the right-field line to make it 4-0 Texas. Ezequiel Duran doubled Carter home to extend the Rangers' lead to five.
Hitting for the second time in the inning, Joc Pederson launched a three-run home run to put an exclamation point on the Rangers' massive opening frame.
The Rangers' eight-run first inning was the second-highest opening frame tally in a game, right after a no-hitter in MLB history, and the largest such output since 1905.
Jack Leiter got the start for the Rangers and, despite “fighting himself,” was able to make it through six innings while allowing four runs.
“Sometimes there’s just a lot of factors, it can be physically a little bit out of sync, and then it leads into mentally trying to reset and get back to being on the attack,” Leiter said after the game.
Houston did make a run to get back in the game, scoring a pair of runs in the eighth inning to cut the Texas lead down to 9-7.
However, Ezequiel Duran ripped an RBI single in the bottom of the eighth to seal the game for the Rangers.
“We needed that,” Schumaker said when talking about the add-on run. “That Houston offense is good; they did a really good job of coming back.”
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