{"id":320412,"date":"2026-06-03T05:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320412\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:08:11","slug":"joc-pederson-powers-texas-rangers-to-fifth-win-in-a-row-in-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320412\/","title":{"rendered":"Joc Pederson powers Texas Rangers to fifth win in a row in St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Texas Rangers scored seven runs but the St. Louis Cardinals scored four runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Player of the Game: Kyle Higashioka had three hits tonight so kudos to him for bringing some productive to the bottom of the order from the catcher position but it\u2019s Pederson who doubled twice and drove in two runs, including the go-ahead and eventual winning run with an RBI single in the top of the ninth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Rangers tacked on two more insurance runs in the inning to pick up the win and thwart a would-be come back attempt from the Cardinals after rallying from a 2-0 deficit themselves early on in this one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Up Next: The Rangers and Cardinals close out this series with Texas eyeing a second straight sweep. LHP MacKenzie Gore set to make the start for Texas in the finale against RHP Andre Pallante for St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Wednesday evening first pitch from Busch Stadium is set for 6:45 pm CDT and you can catch it on the Rangers Sports Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers scored seven runs but the St. Louis Cardinals scored four runs. Player of the Game:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9864,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-320412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-game-day-threads","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320412","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=320412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}