{"id":438731,"date":"2026-09-17T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438731\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:48:13","slug":"brandon-nimmo-ezequiel-duran-lead-rangers-rally-vs-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438731\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Nimmo, Ezequiel Dur\u00e1n Lead Rangers Rally vs. Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/nimmobr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallassportsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Nimmo<\/a> doubled off Boston left-hander Erik Miller in the seventh inning Wednesday night to give the <a href=\"https:\/\/dallassportsjournal.com\/category\/texas-rangers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> their first lead. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/duranez01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallassportsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ezequiel Dur\u00e1n<\/a> followed with a two-run single, and Texas beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/dallassportsjournal.com\/category\/boston-red-sox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dallassportsjournal.com\/nathan-eovaldi-rangers-red-sox-al-west-tie-astros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">7-3<\/a> at Globe Life Field.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Nimmo\u2019s double scored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/seageco01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallassportsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Seager<\/a> for a 4-3 lead. Dur\u00e1n\u2019s single scored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/burgeja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallassportsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Burger<\/a> and Nimmo. All 3 runs were charged to Miller (4-1), the third of four Boston pitchers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said Miller is a really tough lefty who throws 95 with good secondary pitches.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe had a lot of big hits today,\u201d Schumaker said. \u201cBut I thought after, when Miller came in the game, Nimmo had a giant hit the other way against, Miller\u2019s a really tough lefty, 95 with really good secondary. And then obviously [Dur\u00e1n] coming through with two more RBIs, kind of give us a little, a little bit of cushion for Evo, was maybe the, the hit of the game, but I thought Nimmo\u2019s at-bat was just fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cJustin Foscue has been so good at the top of the lineup as well, and then obviously Seager at the end,\u201d Schumaker continued. \u201cBut up and down the lineup, I could go through each guy that had productive outs, even when they made the outs, and then they had productive at-bats with guys in scoring position. There was some frustration a little bit early on when we had guys on base and didn\u2019t knock them in, but they capitalized towards the end of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Texas Rangers Finish With 13 Hits<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/foscuju01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallassportsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Foscue<\/a> doubled on the first pitch from Red Sox rookie left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/benneja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallassportsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Bennett<\/a>, and Burger drove him in with a ground-rule double. Boston led 2-1 after one inning.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the fourth, Foscue singled home <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/langfwy01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallassportsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wyatt Langford<\/a> to tie it. After Boston went ahead 3-2 on a balk in the fifth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jungjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallassportsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Jung<\/a> led off the bottom half with a double. Langford singled him home with two outs off reliever Greg Weissert.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bennett allowed 3 runs on 8 hits over 4 2\/3 innings. He walked 1 and struck out 7.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Seager added an RBI single in the eighth. Jung finished with 3 hits, and Burger and Foscue had 2 apiece. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/eovalna01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallassportsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Eovaldi<\/a> held Boston to 1 hit over the final 4 innings, and the Red Sox finished with 3.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Nimmo, Ezequiel Dur\u00e1n Delivered In Arizona And Tuesday<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On Sept. 12 at Chase Field, Nimmo hit an RBI double and Dur\u00e1n capped a six-run fifth inning with a two-run single in a 6-2 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/dallassportsjournal.com\/category\/arizona-diamondbacks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>. Nimmo had 2 doubles that night.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/diazel01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallassportsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elias D\u00edaz<\/a> hit a two-out, two-run double in the second inning that scored Nimmo and Dur\u00e1n. Dur\u00e1n went 2-for-3 with a run in the 4-2 win.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Nimmo entered the series hitting .263 with 33 doubles, 4 triples, 14 home runs, and 60 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Eovaldi spoke with Rangers Sports Network after the game. He said the Rangers were able to hang around long enough to take the lead.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI think that\u2019s big,\u201d Eovaldi said. \u201cObviously, guys are grinding right now, but for us to be able to come out and play well these first two games against the Red Sox, we\u2019ve got to make sure that we bounce back tomorrow. But I think it just shows the grit that we have in the clubhouse and all the guys. We\u2019ve been having a lot of production at the bottom part of the lineup and being able to get on base, and we were able to hang around long enough to take the lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Texas (76-76) has won 4 straight and is tied with the Houston Astros for first place in the American League West. Houston holds the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Schumaker said after the game that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bradfco01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallassportsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cody Bradford<\/a> would start Thursday\u2019s series finale, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffWilsonTXR\/status\/2100439595758260393\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeff Wilson of DLLS Sports<\/a> reported. The club later <a href=\"https:\/\/dallassportsjournal.com\/skip-schumaker-cody-bradford-rangers-announce-tyler-alexander-starter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/alexaty01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallassportsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Alexander<\/a> as its scheduled starter against Boston right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/grayso01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=dallassportsjournal.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-16_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sonny Gray<\/a>. First pitch is 7:05 p.m. CT on Rangers Sports Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Brandon Nimmo doubled off Boston left-hander Erik Miller in the seventh inning Wednesday night to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-438731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438731","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=438731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}