{"id":398465,"date":"2026-08-05T16:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398465\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:42:14","slug":"ezequiel-duran-has-4-rbis-as-rangers-beat-giants-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398465\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezequiel Duran has 4 RBIs as Rangers beat Giants 5-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Ezequiel Duran drove in four runs, the last on a game-ending double, and the Texas Rangers beat the San Francisco Giants 5-4 on Tuesday night to snap a season-worst six-game losing streak that knocked them out of the AL West lead.<\/p>\n<p>Duran won it with a hit that bounced into the right-field seats, an inning after he lined a one-hopper off that wall for a two-run double that put the Rangers up 4-2. He also had an RBI single in the first inning, a night after going 4 for 4 with a homer for their only run in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/giants-rangers-score-c2098ae8c55a9a9e3c862f28533fb757\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">series opener<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Burger, who entered in the top of the ninth as a defensive replacement, led off the bottom of the inning with a double off Dylan Smith (0-4), the sixth Giants pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco got even in the ninth when pinch-hitter Bryce Eldridge hit a two-run single off All-Star closer Jacob Latz (3-1). It was Latz&#8217;s third blown save in 24 chances this season. He allowed two hits, a walk and a wild pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Seager and Brandon Nimmo both had three hits for Texas. Seager, the two-time World Series MVP who has <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rangers-seager-bb726cce2e55582c61d3bdfac8d02ca9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missed 54 games this year<\/a> because of three stays on the injured list, is hitting .201 \u2014 the first time he\u2019s been over .200 since May 8.<\/p>\n<p>Osleivis Basabe hit a two-run homer with two outs in the Giants seventh off Chase Silseth. The right-hander was making his first home appearance since being <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/angels-rangers-trade-5f737b849fb49d650efebbda388e1ce0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquired in a trade<\/a> from the Los Angeles Angels last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Silseth took over after starter MacKenzie Gore pitched three-hit ball over six scoreless innings, with four strikeouts and three walks.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>In the series finale Wednesday, left-hander Cody Bradford is set to make his first start for Texas since the end of 2024 after recovering from elbow surgery. Left-hander Carson Whisenhunt (2-2, 6.63 ERA) will pitch for the Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Ezequiel Duran drove in four runs, the last on a game-ending double, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[556,555,150,152,151,557,223,154,27],"class_list":["post-398465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-associated-press","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398465","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=398465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}