The Texas Rangers scored two runs while the Colorado Rockies scored one run.<\/p>\n
Welcome back, early April Rangers. That version of the club got off to a quick start to the season by winning low-scoring, one-run games with relative ease.<\/p>\n
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Tonight\u2019s game wasn\u2019t especially easy. These Rangers who hit eight dingers in their last two games seemed to leave the power surge in Detroit. In fact, Texas didn\u2019t even have a base hit through 5 2\u20443 innings and seemed in danger of the embarrassment of leaving Tyler Mahle hanging for a potential 1-0 loss to a seven-win Colorado club.<\/p>\n
Tonight\u2019s Rockies\u2019 starter Chase Dollander was a heralded first-round pick for a reason, you\u2019d expect. In many ways, he\u2019s Colorado\u2019s Jack Leiter. A former SEC weekend star pitcher who is trying to transition easy success in college to the big leagues. Nevertheless, Dollander came into the contest sporting a ghastly 7.71 ERA through six career starts.<\/p>\n
The best outing of Dollander\u2019s early career thus far was 5 2\u20443 innings of one-run ball against Atlanta in his final start of April. However, his last time out, against a Detroit team that the Rangers more recently shut down, Dollander allowed six runs in three innings.<\/p>\n
Against Texas Dollander made it six innings and allowed just one hit. Of course, that one hit ended up being the difference in the game as Wyatt Langford smacked a two-run home run into the Texas bullpen. That blast turned a 1-0 deficit into the eventual 2-1 final score.<\/p>\n
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In holding on to beat the Rockies in the opener, the Rangers have climbed back to .500 and have their first three-game winning streak since sweeping Anaheim back in mid-April.<\/p>\n
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Up Next: More Rangers and Rockies from Arlington with RHP Jack Leiter next up to start for Texas against LHP Kyle Freeland for Colorado.<\/p>\n
The Tuesday evening first pitch from The Shed is scheduled for 7:05 pm CT and will be telecast via the Rangers Sports Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers scored two runs while the Colorado Rockies scored one run. Welcome back, early April Rangers.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[191,5,717,52,147,721,1022,4,149,1567,69,3240,91,385],"class_list":{"0":"post-23672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-chase-dollander","11":"tag-colorado-rockies","12":"tag-detroit","13":"tag-jack-leiter","14":"tag-kyle-freeland","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-rangers","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-texas-rangers","19":"tag-texasrangers","20":"tag-tyler-mahle","21":"tag-wyatt-langford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114500520120542212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}