ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Wyatt Langford and Jake Burger homered in a four-run eighth inning as the Texas Rangers beat the Houston Astros 7-3 on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Langford\u2019s leadoff homer and Burger\u2019s three-run shot came off Bryan King (2-2) after the Astros had rallied from an early 3-0 deficit to tie the score in the seventh inning. Houston\u2019s rally included Yordan Alvarez\u2019s 200th career home run, his 30th of the season.<\/p>\n
Langford hit a walk-off homer on Thursday night in a 7-6 win over the Los Angeles Angels hours after being reinstated from the injured list.<\/p>\n
Cole Winn (5-2) retired all four batters he faced in the seventh and eighth innings for his second win in two nights.<\/p>\n
The Rangers (48-46) lead the AL West by 1\u00bd games over Seattle (47-48) and three games over the Astros (46-50). Houston has lost three of its last four games.<\/p>\n
The Rangers took a 2-0 lead on Hunter Brown in the first inning and made it 3-0 in the fifth on Joc Pederson’s home run.<\/p>\n
Alvarez\u2019s 455-foot shot to right field leading off the sixth was his sixth in five games at Globe Life Field this season and 18th in 35 career regular-season games at the park.<\/p>\n
Texas starter Cal Quantrill allowed the one run on Alvarez\u2019s homer, one of five hits, and walked one in a season-high six innings making his fourth consecutive start following 15 relief appearances. His 79 pitches were also a season high.<\/p>\n
Houston tied the score at 3 in the seventh on Yainer Diaz\u2019s two-run homer off Chris Martin.<\/p>\n
Brown gave up three runs in six innings. The 2025 All-Star made his fifth start after missing 2\u00bd months with a strained shoulder and matched a career high with five walks to go with four hits.<\/p>\n
Saturday night\u2019s middle game of the series will match Astros RHP Peter Lambert (7-5, 3.26 ERA) against Rangers RHP Kumar Rocker (2-7, 3.95)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Wyatt Langford and Jake Burger homered in a four-run eighth inning as the Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,130749,64187,90505,38605,39086,63983,57463,23681,202,196,42094,942,130748,53646,90589,57925],"class_list":["post-369066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-bryan-king","tag-cal-quantrill","tag-chris-martin","tag-hunter-brown","tag-jake-burger","tag-joc-pederson","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-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-rangers-astros-score","tag-wyatt-langford","tag-yainer-diaz","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369066","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=369066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}