The Texas Rangers scored five runs while the Milwaukee Brewers scored four runs.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a Michael Helman Indian summer.<\/p>\n
After the Rangers took a scant 1-0 early lead, and with Jack Leiter dealing, it seemed like perhaps Texas had the makings of another win over MLB\u2019s top club in the bag. But these Rangers live in a perpetual miasma of adversity. After an extended two-out rally by the Brew Crew in the fifth which ended Leiter\u2019s outing prematurely, Texas suddenly trailed 3-1 and no one would blame you for thinking, \u201cah, well, it is the nearly 90 win Brewers and the anonymous Rangers. It\u2019s to be expected.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Helman wasn\u2019t having it. In the next half inning, the Rangers hit for the cycle as a team. Importantly Jonah Heim walked to send No. 9 hitter Helman to the plate where he homered \u2014 his second in two games against Milwaukee after last night\u2019s grand slam \u2014 to tie the game.<\/p>\n
Inspired by our September GOAT, Josh Smith singled, Wyatt Langford tripled to give Texas the lead, and then Kyle Higashioka hit a pinch hit double to provide some insurance.<\/p>\n
Up 5-3 heading into the late innings, the Rangers got 4.1 innings of one-run ball from a quintet of relievers (Hoby Milner, Luis Curvelo, Robert Garcia, Phil Maton, and Shawn Armstrong) to close out the victory and guarantee a series win at minimum for Texas.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, up north, the Blue Jays rallied against the Astros so the Rangers now trail Houston by just 2.5 games in the AL West.<\/p>\n
Aaron Judge? Cal Raleigh? Never heard of \u2019em. Give the MVP to Michael Helman.<\/p>\n
Up Next: The Rangers have an opportunity to sweep the Brewers tomorrow with RHP Merrill Kelly on the mound for Texas against RHP Freddy Peralta for Milwaukee.<\/p>\n
The Wednesday afternoon first pitch from The Shed is scheduled for 1:35 pm CT and will be shown on the Rangers Sports Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers scored five runs while the Milwaukee Brewers scored four runs. It\u2019s a Michael Helman Indian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,38560,843,59,4280,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-304739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brewers","10":"tag-game-day-threads","11":"tag-milwaukee","12":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","13":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115177783734987113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304739","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=304739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}