{"id":236734,"date":"2026-04-06T03:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236734\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T03:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:20:11","slug":"elly-de-la-cruz-leads-cincinnati-reds-to-win-over-texas-rangers-and-series-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/236734\/","title":{"rendered":"Elly De La Cruz leads Cincinnati Reds to win over Texas Rangers and series sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Elly De La Cruz<\/a> singled home the winning run in the eighth inning after scoring in the fourth inning with the use of his speed as the Cincinnati Reds<\/a> beat the Texas Rangers<\/a> 2-1 on Sunday to sweep the three-game weekend series.<\/p>\n

De La Cruz sliced an opposite-field hit to right field to score Matt McLain<\/a>, who walked leading off the inning against Robert Garcia<\/a> (0-1) and stole second base.<\/p>\n

De La Cruz scored from second base in the fourth on Eugenio Su\u00e1rez\u2019s single up the middle after singling and tagging up on Sal Stewart<\/a>\u2019s 358-foot fly out to the warning track in right.<\/p>\n

Sam Moll<\/a> (1-0) retired one batter, striking out Brandon Nimmo<\/a> with runners on second and third to end Texas\u2019 seventh. Cincinnati\u2019s Brock Burke<\/a> struck out the side in the ninth for his first career save in 210 career relief appearances.<\/p>\n

Texas tied the score 1-1 in the seventh on a home run by Joc Pederson<\/a> that ended the major leaguers\u2019 longest hitless start by a batter this season at 16 at-bats. After Pederson saw his fly ball barely clear the wall, he flung his bat toward the Rangers\u2019 dugout.<\/p>\n

The Rangers have lost four consecutive games and scored one run in the series\u2019 final 20 innings.<\/p>\n

Reds starter Chase Burns<\/a> allowed one run and five hits in six-plus innings.<\/p>\n

Rangers starter Jack Leiter<\/a> gave up one run and four hits in five innings.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati was 3 for 14 with runners in scoring position and left 10 on base. Texas was 0 for 6 and left eight.<\/p>\n

Nimmo singled twice and has reached base in all nine Rangers games.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Reds LHP Brandon Williamson<\/a> (0-1, 11.57 ERA) will open a four-game series at Miami against Marlins RHP Janson Junk<\/a> (0-0, 4.15) on Monday.<\/p>\n

Texas RHP Jacob deGrom<\/a> (0-0, 5.79) will face Seattle Mariners<\/a> RHP Logan Gilbert<\/a> (0-1, 6.75) at home on Monday.<\/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 Elly De La Cruz singled home the winning run in the eighth inning after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-236734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}