Nathan Eovaldi gave up three hits and struck out eight in seven innings while Wyatt Langford and Joc Pederson had three hits each for the Texas Rangers in a 7-1 win over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Eovaldi (10-8), who allowed one run and walked one, has five starts of at least seven innings this season, second in the major leagues behind Philadelphia\u2019s Christopher S\u00e1nchez with six.<\/p>\n
Langford\u2019s three hits included two doubles and matched his season high. Ezequiel Duran had a triple, a single and two RBIs.<\/p>\n
Seattle’s Bryan Woo (7-7) gave up five runs on nine hits, matching a season high, in five innings. Woo is 1-7 on the road this season with a 6.52 ERA while 6-0 at home with a 2.20 ERA.<\/p>\n
Texas took a 3-0 lead in the first inning with three extra-base hits and a walk.<\/p>\n
The Rangers scored twice in the second on another double by Langford to score Pederson and Duran\u2019s single to bring home Langford.<\/p>\n
Nicky Lopez doubled home two runs in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Texas scored four times in innings when the first two batters were retired.<\/p>\n
The Mariners\u2019 J.P. Crawford, back after missing four games with a sore left wrist, doubled home Luke Raley in the fifth inning with one of his two hits.<\/p>\n
Seattle\u2019s Josh Naylor extended his on-base streak to 16 games with a second-inning walk.<\/p>\n
By winning the first two games of the four-game series, the Rangers (53-51) lead the AL West by two games over second-place Houston (52-54) for their largest divisional lead this season. The Mariners (51-54) are third, 2 1\/2 games behind Texas after losing four straight.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s game will match starters from Stetson University: Rangers RHP Jacob deGrom (7-6, 3.76 ERA) against Mariners RHP Logan Gilbert (8-6, 3.38).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Eovaldi gave up three hits and struck out eight in seven innings while Wyatt Langford and Joc…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,429],"class_list":["post-387999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387999","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=387999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}