{"id":603049,"date":"2026-04-24T05:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603049\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:41:17","slug":"degrom-has-62nd-10-k-game-and-carter-hits-inside-the-park-hr-as-rangers-beat-pirates-6-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603049\/","title":{"rendered":"DeGrom has 62nd 10-K game and Carter hits inside-the-park HR as Rangers beat Pirates 6-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jacob deGrom<\/a> struck out 10 over 5 2\/3 innings, Evan Carter<\/a> hit an inside-the-park home run while Corey Seager<\/a> went deep and the Texas Rangers<\/a> beat the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> 6-1 on Thursday night in the rubber match of their three-game series.<\/p>\n

It was the 62nd career 10-strikeout game for deGrom<\/a> (2-0), who has a 2.13 ERA in his six starts. The 37-year-old, two-time Cy Young Award winner threw 63 of 89 pitches for strikes, allowed five hits and exited after issuing his only walk.<\/p>\n

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Carter’s two-run homer<\/a> for the game’s first runs came when he lined a 97.5 mph full-count fastball beyond the reach of right fielder Ryan O’Hearn<\/a> in the third inning. The ball ricocheted hard off the bottom of the wall and Carter rounded the bases for his first career inside-the-parker, and third homer this season.<\/p>\n

That came two pitches after home plate umpire Dan Merzel signaled ball four, but that was overturned on a ABS challenge by the catcher Joey Bart<\/a> and kept Carter at the plate instead of a walk.<\/p>\n

Seager made it 6-0 in the fourth with his three-run homer<\/a>, his sixth of the year being a 382-drive pulled into the right-field stands off Pirates rookie Bubba Chandler<\/a> (1-2).<\/p>\n

Chandler allowed six runs and seven hits while striking out four and walking three.<\/p>\n

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Oneil Cruz<\/a> hit his eighth homer for Pittsburgh, a two-out solo shot in the fifth.<\/p>\n

Pirates shortstop Konnor Griffin<\/a> played his last game as a teenager, going 0 for 4 the night before his 20th birthday. He was the last batter of the game, striking out against Peyton Gray, a 30-year-old right-hander making his big-league debut with a 1-2-3 inning.<\/p>\n

Gray was<\/a> called up earlier Thursday after eight years<\/a> going through the minor leagues, independent ball and four winters outside the United States.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh goes to Milwaukee<\/a> on Friday night for the first of 10 consecutive games against NL Central foes. The Rangers stay home to open a three-game series against the Athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jacob deGrom struck out 10 over 5 2\/3 innings, Evan Carter hit an inside-the-park…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[49887,65821,7953,104338,13822,99196,8263,363,9882,2240,243379,99,1022,2330,79537],"class_list":{"0":"post-603049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-bubba-chandler","10":"tag-corey-seager","11":"tag-evan-carter","12":"tag-jacob-degrom","13":"tag-joey-bart","14":"tag-milwaukee","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-oneil-cruz","17":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","18":"tag-ryan-o39hearn","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-texas-rangers","22":"tag-the-athletics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}