One out away from pinning a loss on the American League West-leading Rangers, the A’s were stunned by Adrian Beltre’s second home run of the night, a first-pitch fastball right down the middle that the third baseman simply mauled to produce a 7-6 Texas win.
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Davis hit his 24th and 25th homers, the second of which followed Crisp later in the eighth inning, also coming with a man on as the A’s bludgeoned Rangers reliever Matt Bush, who came into the game with a 2.01 ERA and who had only allowed one homer in 31 games.
Texas Rangers starting pitcher Yu Darvish throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Oakland Athletics in Arlington, Texas, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. The power-hitting Gallo crushed a 448-foot home run in his first start at first base.
Player of the Game: Ian Desmond went 2-for-4 with a double and, at the time, the go-ahead two-run home run in the 5th inning. Josh Reddick followed two batters later with his seventh dinger, a two-run blast to right.Oakland made it 4-0 in Marcus Semien’s homer to center in the fifth, his 21st of the season. The five hits he allowed came against consecutive Texas batters to start the fifth, when top prospect Joey Gallo homered in his first start this season for the Rangers.
YANKEES 2, ASTROS 1: Austin Romine hit a tiebreaking double in the eighth inning to make a victor of Michael Pineda, and the New York’s bullpen did just fine without star closer Aroldis Chapman in a victory over Houston. Gallo hit six homers in 36 games last season in his Major League Baseball debut, but had just one at-bat this year for the Rangers before Tuesday night.
“The team came back, we had a one-run lead, I gave up two hits to the same guy, so I really wanted to get a strikeout and get the momentum going for the team”, Darvish said through his interpreter.
The Rangers and the A’s play the middle game of a three-game series Tuesday night at Globe Life Park.
Pineda (5-9) pitched seven strong innings to beat Yankees nemesis Dallas Keuchel (6-10), last year’s AL Cy Young Award victor.
Notable: Profar collected his first three-hit game of the season and first since June 12, 2013. On the 2nd pitch of the game, the veteran blistered a groundball just barely fair down the first base line into the corner, giving him ample time to make it to third base for a leadoff triple. If not, Sonny Gray will start the series finale at Cleveland.
Beltre now has nine walk-off home runs in his career.
Scooter Gennett, Jonathan Villar and pinch-hitter Andy Wilkins also connected for the Brewers.
Shipley (0-1) was selected 15th overall by the Diamondbacks in the 2013 amateur draft. He doubled and scored in the third but was chased by Maldonado’s homer in the sixth.
Reddick’s two-run homer in the fourth was one of three homers by the A’s.
Davis had his 10th career multihomer game, his second this season against the Rangers. “I can’t explain just the one inning”. Keone Kela pitched a scoreless seventh.
Hellickson has been the subject of trade rumors, some connecting him to the Marlins. “I think it went well”. Overton, Oakland’s second-round pick in 2013, was scheduled to pitch Friday for Triple-A Nashville, so he’ll have an extra day off this time around. Halladay and Roger Clemens (1998) hold the club record.
The Rangers did score once in the ninth and had the tying at the plate with two outs. He ranks fourth in the Pacific Coast League in home runs. He was the Rangers’ last hope to keep the game alive.
WHITE SOX 5, CUBS 4: Tyler Saladino hit a game-ending RBI single to put the White Sox past their crosstown rival Cubs.
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J.B. Shuck sparked the winning rally with a leadoff single against Mike Montgomery (3-5), who was acquired in a deal with Seattle last week.
