{"id":794166,"date":"2026-07-11T03:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/794166\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T03:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:14:18","slug":"wyatt-langford-jake-burger-homer-in-four-run-eighth-as-texas-rangers-beat-houston-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/794166\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyatt Langford, Jake Burger homer in four-run eighth as Texas Rangers beat Houston Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Wyatt Langford<\/a> and Jake Burger<\/a> homered in a four-run eighth inning as the Texas Rangers<\/a> beat the Houston Astros<\/a> 7-3 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Langford\u2019s leadoff homer and Burger\u2019s three-run shot came off Bryan King<\/a> (2-2) after the Astros had rallied from an early 3-0 deficit to tie the score in the seventh inning. Houston\u2019s rally included Yordan Alvarez<\/a>\u2019s 200th career home run, his 30th of the season.<\/p>\n

Langford hit a walk-off homer on Thursday night in a 7-6 win over the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> hours after being reinstated from the injured list.<\/p>\n

Cole Winn<\/a> (5-2) retired all four batters he faced in the seventh and eighth innings for his second win in two nights.<\/p>\n

The Rangers (48-46) lead the AL West by 1 1\/2 games over Seattle (47-48) and three games over the Astros (46-50). Houston has lost three of its last four games.<\/p>\n

The Rangers took a 2-0 lead on Hunter Brown<\/a> in the first inning and made it 3-0 in the fifth on Joc Pederson<\/a>\u2019s home run.<\/p>\n

Alvarez\u2019s 455-foot shot to right field leading off the sixth was his sixth in five games at Globe Life Field this season and 18th in 35 career regular-season games at the park.<\/p>\n

Texas starter Cal Quantrill<\/a> allowed the one run on Alvarez\u2019s homer, one of five hits, and walked one in a season-high six innings making his fourth consecutive start following 15 relief appearances. His 79 pitches were also a season high.<\/p>\n

Houston tied the score at 3 in the seventh on Yainer Diaz<\/a>\u2019s two-run homer off Chris Martin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brown gave up three runs in six innings. The 2025 All-Star made his fifth start after missing 2 1\/2 months with a strained shoulder and matched a career high with five walks to go with four hits.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Saturday night\u2019s middle game of the series will match Astros RHP Peter Lambert<\/a> (7-5, 3.26 ERA) against Rangers RHP Kumar Rocker<\/a> (2-7, 3.95)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Wyatt Langford and Jake Burger homered in a four-run eighth inning as the Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-794166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}