“What a gutsy performance by Sam”, Banister said.
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Gomez led off the sixth inning with a solo shot to center field cutting the Rangers lead to one. The Rangers also moved within five games of Houston (60-49) in the division and are two games out of the second wild card.
Scott Kazmir was the Houston Astros’ big pitching acquisition prior to the Major League Baseball trade deadline, and make no mistake, he was a big acquisition.
Houston managed exclusively 4 hits however drew a season-high eight walks.
Astros fail to break through against Rangers bullpen and drop series. “We didn’t play very well this series”. Klien was just ready to last 1/3 of an inning, strolling two and surrendering one hit and two earned runs. The bullpen, initially, wasn’t as effective.
Rangers righthander Yovany Gallardo (8-9) gave up four hits and three runs with two walks and three strikeouts in five innings for the victory before a crowd of 29,953. A single and a walk loaded the bases with one out before Freeman retired Valbuena on a fly ball and Marwin Gonzalez on a groundout. Jake Diekman tossed a scoreless eighth. Dyson needed to dance across the two runners he placed on within the ninth earlier than choosing up his second save. “It’s decent to get discarded into the flame right and get your feet wet”. “They did an ideal job this entire homestand”.
Castro came into the game with three home runs and 10 RBIs in his previous four games.
The Texas Officers (54-53) get a greatly required off day tomorrow and will go to Seattle to confront the Seattle Sailors (50-59). That’s what we did tonight. “We’ve some guys now to return in and shut the door”. All the runs were unearned. “That’s a first for me… a low-scoring, one-run game and win that game”. “They had two singles, three runs, two errors, a walk. We simply did not get into the sport”. Be that as it may, the Officers weren’t done in the to begin with, as both Mitch Moreland and Elvis Andrus additionally recorded RBI singles to push the lead to 3-0. He allowed only one earned run in 34 innings for an 0.26 ERA, the third-lowest July mark in history. For the Rangers, they got everything they could’ve hoped for from Nick Martinez. After getting Carlos Correa to bounce out to short, Jed Lowrie doubled, scoring Gomez easily and making it 4-1 Texas. He’s expected to next start Sunday for Double-A Frisco.
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Astros: Former Ranger Scott Feldman (4-5) starts today when Houston starts a four-game series at Oakland, the second of three consecutive road series. In response to the Elias Sports activities Bureau, the 76 days it took him to go from one save to 20 is the fourth-fasted in main league historical past. Manager A.J. Hinch and a trainer went on the field, but Gomez stayed in the game and homered on his next at-bat. Astros OF Preston Tucker (sore right triceps) was available Wednesday night. He was hit by a pitch within the arm Tuesday.
