{"id":361433,"date":"2026-07-04T23:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361433\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T23:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:36:09","slug":"greene-homers-in-1st-inning-and-3-tigers-pitchers-combine-on-three-hit-shutout-win-over-rangers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361433\/","title":{"rendered":"Greene homers in 1st inning and 3 Tigers pitchers combine on three-hit shutout win over Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Riley Greene hit a two-run homer in the first inning, Jack Flaherty pitched three-hit ball over 5 2\/3 innings and the Detroit Tigers beat the Texas Rangers 3-0 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Holton retired the only batter he faced after relieving Flaherty, before Keider Montero pitched three no-hit innings with one walk for his first career save and to finish off the seventh shutout by the Tigers this season.<\/p>\n<p>Flaherty (2-8) struck out five without a walk, but did hit a batter. The right-hander has gone at least five innings not allowing a run in both starts since coming off the injured list because of a left-foot strain. He is 2-1 in his last five starts after going into June with an 0-7 record his first 12 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Cal Quantrill (3-1) made his third consecutive start for Texas in the spot of injured Jack Leiter, Quantrill struck out two, walked one and hit a batter while allowing three hits and three runs \u2014 two earned \u2014 over five innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers were held scoreless for the sixth time this season. This one came two days after a season-high 17 hits to win the series opener 10-4 before a the series paused Friday for a World Cup game played at the adjacent home stadium of the NFL&#8217;s Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>After Quantrill retired the first two batters of the game, Kerry Carpenter hit a sharp single before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/video\/cal-quantrill-in-play-run-s-to-riley-greene-a4wqlm?partnerId=web_multimedia-search_video-share\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greene&#8217;s 12th homer<\/a>, a 386-foot shot pulled down the right-field line. The Tigers led 3-0 after an error on left fielder Alejandro Osuna&#8217;s misplayed flyball in the third set up an RBI groundout for Ben Malgeri.<\/p>\n<p>A matchup of former first-round draft picks in the series finale Sunday. Casey Mize (3-5, 2.63 ERA), the No. 1 overall pick in 2018, starts for Detroit while Kumar Rocker (2-6, 3.83), the third overall pick in 2022, is set to pitch for Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Riley Greene hit a two-run homer in the first inning, Jack Flaherty pitched three-hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[84006,150,152,151,128321,64187,128322,102160,53310,127697,57463,23681,202,196,42094,87447,942,127695,128320,102570],"class_list":["post-361433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-alejandro-osuna","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-ben-malgeri","tag-cal-quantrill","tag-casey-mize","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-jack-leiter","tag-kerry-carpenter","tag-kumar-rocker","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40792-ap-michigan-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-riley-greene","tag-tigers-rangers-score","tag-tyler-holton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361433","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=361433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}