ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Brandon Nimmo hit a game-ending single that drove in Wyatt Langford with his third hit of the game, and the Texas Rangers beat the Houston Astros 6-5 on Sunday to enter the All-Star break with a winning record at 49-47.<\/p>\n
Langford singled off Josh Hader (3-1) leading off the ninth and advanced when Zach Dezenzo misplayed the ball for an error. Langford moved up on Josh Jung’s single and scored standing up when Nimmo hit a one-hopper that glanced off the raised glove of Hader and into center field, giving Texas its fourth walk-off win this year.<\/p>\n
Nimmo had his first walk-off plate appearance for Texas and his seventh in the big leagues.<\/p>\n
All-Star closer Jacob Latz (2-1) intentionally walked Yordan Alvarez with two outs and none on in the ninth, Alvarez’s second intentional walk of the game, then retired Isaac Paredes on a popout.<\/p>\n
Texas won two of three in the in-state series and leads the AL West by 1 1\/2 games over second-place Seattle (48-49) and by three games over third-place Houston (47-51). The Rangers have won eight of their last 10 series rubber games.<\/p>\n
Astros center fielder Brice Matthews injured his left knee crashing into the wall in the first inning trying to catch a Jung drive and left for a pinch hitter in the second.<\/p>\n
Houston’s Cristian Javier gave up three runs, four hits and three walks over three innings in his first start since straining his right shoulder during an outing on April 8.<\/p>\n
Rangers starter MacKenzie Gore allowed one run and two hits over four innings in his first big league outing on three days\u2019 rest. Jacob deGrom had been scratched because of a mild left glute strain.<\/p>\n
Nicky Lopez’s RBI single and Joc Pederson’s two-run double built a 3-0 Texas lead in the second.<\/p>\n
Jose Altuve homered in the fourth, and Nimmo’s RBI triple boosted the lead to 4-1 in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Pe\u00f1a\u2019s sacrifice fly and Paredes’ two-run single after an intentional walk to Alvarez tied the score in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Cam Smith put the Astros ahead 5-4 with an eighth-inning homer, and Kyle Higashioka went deep in the bottom half.<\/p>\n
Astros: Host Baltimore starting Friday.<\/p>\n
Rangers: Open a series at Atlanta on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Brandon Nimmo hit a game-ending single that drove in Wyatt Langford with his third…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,32775,131257,88828,48644,90076,53311,64188,90584,63983,57926,49682,39085,77366,57328,113254,23681,202,196,42094,942,130748,53646,57925,101060],"class_list":["post-370904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-brice-matthews","tag-cam-smith","tag-cristian-javier","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-jake-latz","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-joc-pederson","tag-jose-altuve","tag-josh-hader","tag-josh-jung","tag-kyle-higashioka","tag-mackenzie-gore","tag-nicky-lopez","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-yordan-alvarez","tag-zach-dezenzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370904","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=370904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}