Once you’re on the board, suddenly the runs already allowed matter even more. It’s going to be fine.
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Jeff Banister said the tiebreaker could be big in October, but right now, it is nothing to think about. “Hitting, I could have handled the bat”.
MIley and the Orioles were nearly bled to death in this game. The Orioles have hit back-to-back homers 12 times this season.
The Rangers then used the four relief pitchers to close out the final 3 1/3 innings.
Baltimore could not come all the way back, but manager Buck Showalter still liked how his pitchers fared in the series. We did for three games. We had a couple chances to get him along the way…but we’re glad we got him.
Jonathan Lucroy hit his first homer with Texas, Carlos Beltran had two hits and an RBI, and the Rangers beat Wade Miley and the Baltimore Orioles 5-3 Thursday night to avoid a three-game sweep.
Delino DeShields doubled to start the third, and he later came home on Ian Desmond’s infield out. Kim also had a single in the game, while Alvarez, who hit his 16th home run earlier in the game, turned in a three hit game.
Bruce had been 0 for 10 since being acquired from Cincinnati on Monday before his drive into the Yankees’ bullpen in right-center field made it 4-0 in the fifth inning against Nathan Eovaldi (9-8).
Chin, who was at first probably screened Davis, incidentally causing a run. Texas wasn’t scoring runs in bunches by any means – just one here and one there. Jonathan Schoop, rushing back to field the ball, sprinted far enough to make a play on the ball, but when Schoop reached out for a basket catch, he missed. “But I liked what I saw”. However Choo said he felt good for 5 days before being reinstated. Pedro Alvarez followed with his 16th, and the Orioles cut the lead to 4-2. It’s another team that can hit, hit a lot of home runs, especially in this park. “But I just really didn’t have good command tonight”. Had to battle to make some pitches.
Griffin was tossing zeros until the bottom of the fifth inning when the O’s did what they do best: hit the tarnation out of baseballs. “It happens”, Miley said. “You’re never going to do your best every time out”. “But it’s something to build on and get the first one out of the way”.
With the win, Texas ended the season series with Baltimore having won four of the seven games played between the two division leading clubs.
Keone Kela got one out in the sixth, and making his Rangers debut, Jeremy Jeffress pitched a scoreless seventh. The Rangers didn’t do much until the eighth, when Adrian Beltre and Rougned Odor opened with doubles for a 5-3 lead…. Texas would see out the win with Sam Dyson recording his 23 save of the season in the ninth.
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Mets (56-52) at Tigers (59-49), 7:10 p.m. ET: Flamethrowers new and old take the mound as Noah Syndergaard (9-5, 2.48 ERA) and the Mets look to stay in playoff contention against the red-hot Tigers and Justin Verlander (11-6, 3.54 ERA), who is coming off a complete-game victory over the Astros.
