BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Jack Leiter struck out eight in six strong innings and Jake Burger drove in two runs to lead the Texas Rangers to a 5-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Leiter (1-0) had a stretch of five straight strikeouts and appeared to have a sixth for the second out in the fifth, but Colton Cowser won an ABS challenge on a called third strike and turned it into a base hit. Blaze Alexander singled and Gunnar Henderson had a two-out single to cut it to 4-2 before Leiter struck out Pete Alonso to end the inning with runners at the corners.<\/p>\n
Leiter allowed five hits and a walk in leading Texas to its third straight win. Jakob Junis and Jalen Beeks each pitched a scoreless inning before Tyler Alexander struck out two in the ninth for his second save.<\/p>\n
Brandon Nimmo singled leading off the game against Chris Bassitt (0-1) \u2014 making his first start for the Orioles \u2014 before scoring on a fielder’s choice by Burger for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Henderson hit his first home run of the season to tie it in the first.<\/p>\n
Kyle Higashioka walked following a leadoff double by Evan Carter in the second, and Nimmo singled for a 2-1 lead. Burger had an RBI single and Joc Pederson added a sacrifice fly to make it 4-1.<\/p>\n
Burger doubled and scored on a one-out single by Josh Smith in the ninth off Tyler Wells.<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old Bassitt needed 60 pitches to get through the first two innings. He was done after 4 1\/3 innings and 100 pitches, allowing four runs on six hits and four walks.<\/p>\n
Orioles RHP Zach Eflin will make his first start of the season Tuesday. The Rangers hadn’t announced a scheduled starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Jack Leiter struck out eight in six strong innings and Jake Burger drove in two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,30643,226,82,1125,2266,916,721,400,9975,657,13,392,9390,4,9500,9501,74,9496,9497,39139,9499,149,83618,1567,69,3240,9112,1275,96],"class_list":{"0":"post-653809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blaze-alexander","10":"tag-brandon-nimmo","11":"tag-chris-bassitt","12":"tag-colton-cowser","13":"tag-evan-carter","14":"tag-gunnar-henderson","15":"tag-jack-leiter","16":"tag-jake-burger","17":"tag-jake-junis","18":"tag-jalen-beeks","19":"tag-joc-pederson","20":"tag-josh-smith","21":"tag-kyle-higashioka","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","24":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","25":"tag-pete-alonso","26":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","27":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","28":"tag-product-40779-ap-delaware-maryland-sports-only","29":"tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","30":"tag-rangers","31":"tag-rangers-orioles-score-leiter","32":"tag-texas","33":"tag-texas-rangers","34":"tag-texasrangers","35":"tag-tyler-alexander","36":"tag-tyler-wells","37":"tag-zach-eflin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653809","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=653809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}