{"id":264068,"date":"2026-04-24T07:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264068\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:38:19","slug":"degrom-has-62nd-10-k-game-and-carter-hits-inside-the-park-hr-as-rangers-beat-pirates-6-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264068\/","title":{"rendered":"DeGrom has 62nd 10-K game and Carter hits inside-the-park HR as Rangers beat Pirates 6-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jacob deGrom struck out 10 over 5 2\/3 innings, Evan Carter hit an inside-the-park home run while Corey Seager went deep and the Texas Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-1 on Thursday night in the rubber match of their three-game series.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 62nd career 10-strikeout game for deGrom (2-0), who has a 2.13 ERA in his six starts. The 37-year-old, two-time Cy Young Award winner threw 63 of 89 pitches for strikes, allowed five hits and exited after issuing his only walk.<\/p>\n<p>\n               <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/video\/bubba-chandler-in-play-run-s-to-evan-carter-pg2i0a?partnerId=web_multimedia-search_video-share\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carter&#8217;s two-run homer<\/a> for the game&#8217;s first runs came when he lined a 97.5 mph full-count fastball beyond the reach of right fielder Ryan O&#8217;Hearn in the third inning. The ball ricocheted hard off the bottom of the wall and Carter rounded the bases for his first career inside-the-parker, and third homer this season.<\/p>\n<p>That came two pitches after home plate umpire Dan Merzel signaled ball four, but that was overturned on a ABS challenge by the catcher Joey Bart and kept Carter at the plate instead of a walk.<\/p>\n<p>Seager made it 6-0 in the fourth with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/video\/field-view-corey-seager-s-three-run-home-run?partnerId=web_multimedia-search_video-share\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three-run homer<\/a>, his sixth of the year being a 382-drive pulled into the right-field stands off Pirates rookie Bubba Chandler (1-2).<\/p>\n<p>Chandler allowed six runs and seven hits while striking out four and walking three.<\/p>\n<p>Oneil Cruz hit his eighth homer for Pittsburgh, a two-out solo shot in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates shortstop Konnor Griffin played his last game as a teenager, going 0 for 4 the night before his 20th birthday. He was the last batter of the game, striking out against Peyton Gray, a 30-year-old right-hander making his big-league debut with a 1-2-3 inning.<\/p>\n<p>Gray was called up earlier Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=gray--000pey\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after eight years<\/a> going through the minor leagues, independent ball and four winters outside the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh goes to Milwaukee on Friday night for the first of 10 consecutive games against NL Central foes. The Rangers stay home to open a three-game series against the Athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jacob deGrom struck out 10 over 5 2\/3 innings, Evan Carter hit an inside-the-park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,98124,40381,98789,39084,53311,98790,97565,23681,202,98740,98122,196,42094,73297,942,97564],"class_list":{"0":"post-264068","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-bubba-chandler","12":"tag-corey-seager","13":"tag-dan-merzel","14":"tag-evan-carter","15":"tag-jacob-degrom","16":"tag-joey-bart","17":"tag-oneil-cruz","18":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","19":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","20":"tag-peyton-gray","21":"tag-pirates-rangers-score","22":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","23":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","24":"tag-product-40809-ap-pennsylvania-sports-only","25":"tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","26":"tag-ryan-ohearn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264068","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=264068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}