Texas Rangers’ Prince Fielder, center, confronts Houston Astros’ Jed Lowry, in navy blue, after both benches cleared in the ninth inning of a baseball game Saturday, July 18, 2015, in Houston.
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“If you wonder if games in July matter, tonight’s probably proof positive”, Astros manager A.J.
“Rangers second baseman Texas Rangers vs New York Yankees”>Rougned Odor had provided the offense Texas sought following his recall from Triple-A Round Rock on June 15, and on Saturday night Odor delivered something else of value. It was the first of four straight singles by Texas in the inning, but Josh Hamilton grounded out after that to allow McHugh to escape the jam.
In case you haven’t figured it out, that’s six games in the next nine on the road, where the Rangers excel, against the two teams the Rangers are chasing in the division. We did a good job of putting some runs across, but in the end I gave up a few too many.
Houston Astros’ Colby Rasmus sits in the dugout during the ninth…
When the dust had settled, Odor laced a leadoff triple to center field and scored when third baseman Adrian Beltre delivered with a one-out single to cap an eight-pitch confrontation with Astros right-hander Josh Fields.
“Everyone gets shoved in these things; the whole pile moved a couple different times”, Hinch said.
After two scoreless innings, the Rangers were able to break through putting two runs on the board with their first of three home runs for the night.
The last time the Texas Rangers went to Houston, they were coming off an terrible April and were one of the worst teams in all of baseball.
“It’s only frustrating because we lost”, Prince Fielder said.
Could they possibly score another sweep in Houston and head into Los Angeles red hot with a chance to possibly pull right back into the AL West hunt? Keuchel has been lights out this season, and I’m taking the RL to give the wager more value. He doesn’t need to act like that. – Feldman, the former Ranger. Correa’s single sent Gonzalez home to make it 3-0.
Hamilton and Robinson Chirinos also homered for Texas. Jose Altuve doubled and Gonzalez scored on a close play at home that led to a long review and resulted in a run.
Yovani Gallardo takes the mound for the series finale on Sunday.
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Gattis has developed a knack for hitting balls to the deepest part of Minute Maid Park and leads the Astros with five triples after hitting just one in his first two seasons combined. Keuchel (11-4, 2.23 ERA) has gone at least six innings in 30 consecutive starts, which is two starts shy of Brett Myers’ club record set in 2010. “It’s been 14 months since he had been on a major league diamond”.
