With the A’s up by two in the bottom of the 10th and one out, John Axford walked the bases loaded and gave up a two-run single by Carlos Beltran.
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Texas Rangers right fielder Shin-Soo Choo will have surgery Wednesday to fix his broken left wrist and forearm.
CF Ian Desmond went 2-for-5 to collect his third multi-hit game in the first six games of the Texas homestand.
“It’s obviously very challenging news”, manager Jeff Banister said after Monday’s contest.
Oakland Athletics relief pitcher Ryan Dull throws to the Texas Rangers in the sixth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016, in Arlington, Texas.
Coming off eight shutout innings in a 1-0 win over Baltimore in his first big league start this season, Detwiler (1-1) held the Rangers scoreless for three innings but didn’t make it out of the fifth.
BLUE JAYS 12, YANKEES 6 Russell Martin homered twice, including a go-ahead shot in an eight-run eighth inning, and Troy Tulowitzki had four hits as Toronto erased a six-run deficit to beat host NY.
Choo, who was injured Monday, will have a plate inserted into the arm. In the opener, Trevor Cahill (2-3) came off the disabled list to throw five innings of two-hit ball in his first start in almost 16 months in the Cubs’ 4-0 victory. It’s only a borderline pitch, and I’m throwing the ball way out.
“That’s my job to cover first base and I just wasn’t cheating over”, said Muncy. The AL West-leading Rangers had 41 games left in the regular season after Tuesday night’s game against the Athletics.
In 44 games this season, Choo, 34, hit.250 with seven home runs and 17 RBI with a.790 OPS in just 164 plate appearances.
“I felt strong. I felt good”.
“Since I’ve joined the ballclub I have seen the energy in the clubhouse and the energy in the dugout day in and day out”, said Beltran, the 39-year-old switch-hitter traded from the Yankees two weeks ago.
Elvis Andrus also tried to run Beltre down, but had to drop the cooler after hanging onto it for so long.
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Beltre’s 100th home run at Globe Life Park, which went about a dozen rows above the 14-foot wall in left field, backed seven solid innings from Martin Perez (8-8), who won for the first time since late June. The Cardinals roughed up Astros ace and former Arkansas Razorback Dallas Keuchel (7-12) to overcome a rocky outing from starter Jaime Garcia (10-8).
