{"id":302439,"date":"2025-09-09T03:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T03:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/302439\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T03:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T03:21:13","slug":"helmans-grand-slam-and-latzs-scoreless-outing-push-playoff-chasing-rangers-past-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/302439\/","title":{"rendered":"Helman&#8217;s grand slam and Latz&#8217;s scoreless outing push playoff-chasing Rangers past Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Michael Helman drove in all the Texas runs with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/video\/michael-helman-hits-a-grand-slam-4-to-left-field-dylan-moore-scores-kyle?partnerId=web_multimedia-search_video-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:grand slam;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">grand slam<\/a> and a double, lefty Jacob Latz pitched 5 2\/3 scoreless innings and the playoff-chasing Rangers beat the MLB-best Milwaukee Brewers 5-0 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers (75-70) moved within 3 1\/2 games of idle Houston, the closest they have been to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/standings\/#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:AL West;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">AL West<\/a> lead since also trailing by 3 1\/2 on May 30. Texas, with 17 games remaining, just won two of three against the Astros.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee (89-56), which in this three-game series could become the first team to officially clinch a playoff spot, was held scoreless for the 11th time this season. Cole Winn, Jacob Webb and Chris Martin finished off the Rangers&#8217; 14th shutout win.<\/p>\n<p>Texas didn&#8217;t even have a base runner against Brewers starter Jose Quintana (11-6) until Jake Burger&#8217;s leadoff walk in the fifth. The bases were loaded after Kyle Higashioka doubled off the very top of the 8-foot wall in left and Jonah Heim drew a walk before Helman&#8217;s fourth homer of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Helman added a two-out RBI double in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>Latz (2-0) made his third consecutive start in what had been the rotation spot of 11-game winner Nathan Eovaldi before he went the injured list with a right rotator cuff strain. The left-hander struck out four and walked one while allowing only three singles.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Batting with the bases loaded for the first time in his 30 big league games, Helman hit a 381-foot liner into the left-field seats.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers have won 12 of their past 16 games. They scored at least four runs in each win, and were held to fewer than that in those losses.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Rangers right-hander Jack Leiter (9-8, 3.74 ERA) starts Tuesday night in the middle game of the series. Milwaukee hadn&#8217;t named a starter.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Michael Helman drove in all the Texas runs with a grand slam and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[8289,5,9977,13040,139,721,19541,442,400,7530,131,9390,2328,2304,10942,59,4,2305,2303,394,149,2099,1567,3825],"class_list":{"0":"post-302439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-chris-martin","11":"tag-cole-winn","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-jack-leiter","14":"tag-jacob-latz","15":"tag-jacob-webb","16":"tag-jake-burger","17":"tag-jonah-heim","18":"tag-jose-quintana","19":"tag-kyle-higashioka","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","22":"tag-michael-helman","23":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-mlb-playoffs","26":"tag-mlb-postseason","27":"tag-nathan-eovaldi","28":"tag-rangers","29":"tag-scoreless-innings","30":"tag-texas","31":"tag-the-rangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115172192036250762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302439","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=302439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}