The Texas Rangers scored four runs but the Houston Astros scored five runs.<\/p>\n
Other than the fact that the Rangers didn\u2019t ultimately end up losing by like ten runs, this was a pretty familiar contest. The Rangers let a first inning rally go to waste without scoring and then Houston got on the board first with a two-out rally from the bottom of their lineup in the second.<\/p>\n
Wyatt Langford tied the game with a Crawford Boxes special solo home run, but Houston again produced an extended rally that saw them collect two more two-out runs. Unlike last night, the Rangers had some fight in them as they tied the game 3-3 in the top of the fourth but Houston again produced a couple of runs in the bottom of the inning to knock out starter Jacob deGrom.<\/p>\n
The Rangers got the final run of the game via a solo Elias Diaz home run in the top of the sixth, but they couldn\u2019t get the next run to even the score and have now lost this series with a game to play tomorrow. Oh yeah, and they\u2019re below .500 again after losing their fourth game in a row.<\/p>\n
Player of the Game: Lefty reliever Tyler Alexander tossed two scoreless frames in the middle innings to settle the game down and give the Rangers a shot at mounting a comeback. The Rangers did not pull it off but Alexander was essentially the most successful pitcher that Texas has sent out there so far in this series.<\/p>\n
Up Next: The Rangers will send RHP Kumar Rocker to the mound hoping to avoid getting swept against RHP Peter Lambert for Houston.<\/p>\n
The Sunday afternoon series finale first pitch from Daikin Park is scheduled for 1:10 pm CDT and will be aired on the Rangers Sports Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers scored four runs but the Houston Astros scored five runs. Other than the fact that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9864,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-395192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-game-day-threads","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395192","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=395192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}