ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Joc Pederson hit a three-run homer to cap an eight-run first inning for Texas, a night after three Houston pitchers combined to throw a no-hitter against the Rangers.<\/p>\n
Pederson struck out to start the first against Astros starter Jason Alexander before the next six batters reached base on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The first Texas hit was a single by Brandon Nimmo, while Jake Burger had a two-run single and Evan Carter drove in two more with a bouncing triple past first baseman Christian Walker into the right-field corner. Ezequiel Duran brought home Carter with a double off the base of the wall in center.<\/p>\n
Pederson drove a 1-2 fastball about a dozen rows into the seats in right field. The 399-foot homer was his fourth of the season.<\/p>\n
Tatsuya Imai, Steven Okert and Alimber Santa, who was making his major league debut, held Texas hitless in a 9-0 victory in the series opener on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Texas\u2019 eight-run first was the second-largest for a team that went hitless in its previous game, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The Chicago White Sox had a nine-run first against the Boston Americans in the second game of a doubleheader on Sept. 27, 1905, after getting no-hit by Bill Dinneen in the opener.<\/p>\n
It was the first eight-run first inning for the Rangers since a 10-4 win at Detroit on April 21, 2012. Their most recent eight-run first at home came in a 9-0 victory over Tampa Bay on May 3, 2004, when Texas played at Globe Life Park, across the street from the current home of Globe Life Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Joc Pederson hit a three-run homer to cap an eight-run first inning for Texas,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,111901,32775,88826,39084,39233,39086,103361,63983,202,196,942,111892,111533,48568,27],"class_list":["post-310056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-bill-dinneen","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-christian-walker","tag-evan-carter","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-jake-burger","tag-jason-alexander","tag-joc-pederson","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-rangers-8-run-first-inning-no-hitter","tag-steven-okert","tag-tatsuya-imai","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310056","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=310056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}