Astros vs. Rangers Game Highlights (5/16/25) | MLB Highlights

Astros vs. Rangers Game Highlights (5/16/25) | MLB Highlights

Nathan Evaldi, as we noted, maybe the best pitcher in baseball right now. His last start face Detroit. They’re good. They didn’t get a run in seven innings and had just two hits. Hottest leadoff guy on the planet at the plate right now. Jeremy Pñena. Pñena swings and misses. Secondary pitches devastating for Evolving. So, one out of nobody on for second baseman Jose Altuve hitting 250. Altuve lifts one high into the air center field. Carter comes into his right. He’s there and he’s got it. Altuveet retired on two pitches. Low ball four. Curve ball and Paradius goes to first base with two out. This is a guy that they’re counting on to heat up like he has and he drills it into right field. That’s a base hit. Paredus going station to station. Will hold at second. So two on, two out for Victor Keratini. This next pitch is chopped toward first. That is a fair ball fielded by Burger just a couple of steps from the bag. He’ll touch up to retire Keratini. This is an incredible story. Lance McCuller’s Jr. making start number three after two and a half years on the shelf. Chopper right side backing up on it. The second baseman, Altuve. He’s got it. Throws to first in time and there’s one away. A good start with Smith. Now it’s Wyatt Langford and that is lifted to center and hit pretty well going back on it. Meyers on the warning track makes the catch right in front of the Astros bullpin in deep left center. Peterson off first. The two two to Garcia and that’s popped up first base side for out number three. So McCull’s a two out walk, but that’s all. One of the unique elements of what Nathan brings, his ability to mix pitches. See what he comes back with here. The 3-2 to Diaz. Swing and a miss. He went to the cutter. Aldi with his second strike out of the ball game. One away in the top of the second. Strike three called fast ball down the middle. Denzo obviously wasn’t looking for that pitch because that was almost right in the five spot. The affforementioned Cam Smith now and he goes after the first pitch chops it to short. Smith in time to get the outs. Works around a one out walk when McCull’s pitched in 2022. His fast ball, his slider couple miles an hour harder as though one sinker hit on the ground right side pass the dive of Altuve. Josh Young with the first hit for the Rangers. It comes with one out in the bottom of the second inning. Brings up Evan Carter. Ground ball back to McCullers. Throws to second and throws it away. Threw it low. Gets past Pñan into center field. And what should have been an inning ending double play. Winds up at first and third and one out. McCullers doesn’t throw anything without movement made it very difficult. So an error on McCullers. Carter gets the bag, his third, and that eliminates a shot at a double play. Their ninth place hitting catcher. He a switch hitter batting from the left side. Slightly open stance. Heim swings, hooks one down the right field line. It’s a base hit. Young scores. Carter rounds third. He comes home and scores. It’s a two-run, two out base knock for Jonah. Both runs unearned, but it still stings. And the Rangers take a two nothing lead. One, two, breaking ball swatted into right field. What a base hit. It rolls towards Cam Smith. So the Rangers have two on, two outs. Wyatt Langford, who drove the ball around 400 ft to left center field his first time up. Bouncing ball coming in fielding at Paradis. Looks at second instead throws to first and just in time to get the out on Langford. Close play. Tu played left field last night. He’s back at second tonight. This is his eighth start this season at second base. Boy, Young is really good at third. Rangers happy to get him back at third base. They’re a terrific defensive team as I noted, one of the best in Major League Baseball. Lowest walk rate in baseball. This guy was spraying the ball all over the place and now he’s like, I got three pitches nobody can hit. Swing and a miss. Fast ball pump by 96 and Aaldi completes a one, two, three shutdown inning with his fourth strike out of the night. Full count here to Meyers. Two men out. Keratini at second. And here’s a chopper past the mound. Charged by Smith in front of second. He’s got it. Launches a dart over to first. Burger’s got it. And Meyers is the final out. No runs, a hit. Bottom of the fourth inning. Lance McCuller’s Jr. back out there and he got him and gets away from Keratini, the catcher. Carter thought he tipped it. Foul. Keratini is able to get the ball. It was 15 ft behind him. Come back and tag out Carter for the strikeout in the first out of the fourth inning. Bullpen is starting to work for Houston. Burgers at second. center field. Meyers racing track wall. Got it. Lance McCullers’s Jr. Four innings of work, two unearned runs. Well, Evaldi once again mixing his pitches very well. And here he checks his swing, but that slider is in the zone. So Smith out on three pitches. Shallow right field. Adoleis comes in. He’s there and he’s got it. It’s a one, two, three. Top of the fifth for Nathan Naldi. Four and a half in the books here. Sean Dubin takes over as Ashstro’s bullpen is fantastic. And for Job Spatada every night to to be able to get to the pen and all the good arms coming out of it. That’s a nice thing for a manager. And Dubin strikes out Langford. The O2 swing and a miss. Another breaking ball. And that’s the second straight strikeout for Dubin. Two out. Dubin delivers an O2 to Garcia and squeezes it with both hands to retire the side. A one-tw inning for Shawn Dubin. You know, for Avaldi, he’s throwing a little bit harder than he has been over the course of the season. About 2 miles an hour harder. Hold on the ground again. Young with a great pick. Second time he’s had to make that play tonight. And he’s done it both times beautifully. That’s why it’s important to get eight innings last night from Deg Grom and a solid six here. That ball to left center. Carter is over and makes the catch and to the dirt ball four. Walker draws the wall. uh three walks for Avaldi tonight which is just unheard of and it’s going to force Bruce Bochi to come out. I don’t know if he can talk Boch into staying in there because it takes a lot of effort for Boch to walk out there. If Boach is going to make the effort to come out to the mound, you’re out. There’s no question. Carter’s back. He stops at the edge of the track, reaches up and makes the catch and that ends the inning. That’s a base hit and a one out single here in the seventh. Astros haven’t had a lot of traffic in this ball game. Sean Armstrong in the Texas pen. 16 consecutive scoreless. Last night it was eight innings of Deg Grom. Tonight 5 and 2/3 of Evaldi. Here’s Cam Smith. He’s 0 for two. Smoked left center. Going to get to the wall on a hop and it stays in. Meers around third on his way home and he scores. And Houston has their run. Cam Smith is on second base. He’s in scoring position with two outs. That’s going to be it for Milner. Armstrong finished last night, picked up his 10th career save in this six-game win streak. The bullpin has matched the rotation. They’ve both been good for Texas. That one skips away. Heading to third and in there is a hustling Smith. Archar’s got to work late the last couple days. That’s down. And Pñena works a walk. Mike Maddox for a visit. And here comes Altuven. And that’s outside. And now the bags are loaded. Yeah, it’s not like the old rules where he could get somebody out of there if you had to. Yeah, the minimum three batter rule really helps Houston here. But it’s it’s a pretty heavy workload that Archong’s had in the last four days. A couple walks, bags are loaded, one-run game. AOK’s been really good for the Astros with runners in scoring position. He’s got a shot here. Ground ball into right field. That’s a base hit. Smith will score. Pñena around third. He will score and Houston has the lead. Waited him out and got a pitch to take the other way. And that’s something Parus doesn’t do very often. And Armstrong stays in now to face Walker with runners first and second to left. Deep gone. Christian Walker has left the building. Walker goes deep for the fifth time this year and the Astros pour it on. It’s six-2 in Arlington. This is six two out RBI’s. Those are cripplers. They they really crush you. You don’t see Bruce Bochi this angry very often. Slamming his fifth on the pad. Josh Young, the batter, one for three, a single and a run scored. There’s a ball hit high into the air deep right field. Smith going back. He gets back to the wall and this one’s out of here. Josh Young with an opposite field home run down the right field line. It’s his seventh of the season. It’s now six to three. Rangers back to within three. By the way, 15 Rangers have been retired consecutively before that young homer. Burger pops it up shallow right side going out. Walker also Altuve. Altuve makes the running grab toward the line. And that is the ball game. The Houston Astros come from behind with six runs in the seventh inning to defeat the Texas Rangers six-3.

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