{"id":663886,"date":"2026-04-05T02:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663886\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:48:19","slug":"reds-blank-rangers-2-0-as-lowder-pitches-scoreless-innings-in-first-win-since-2024-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663886\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds blank Rangers 2-0 as Lowder pitches scoreless innings in first win since 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON, Texas — Rhett Lowder allowed three hits over six innings as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Texas Rangers 2-0 on Saturday night, giving the right-hander his first win since 2024 after missing all of last season because of injuries. <\/p>\n

Graham Ashcraft, Tony Santillan and Emilio Pag\u00e1n each worked a scoreless inning to wrap up the Reds\u2019 second shutout this season. Pag\u00e1n matched the early MLB lead<\/a> with his third save, his second in as many days, benefitting from a double play while walking two and giving up a two-out single.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati got their runs on back-to-back RBI singles by Elly De La Cruz and Sal Stewart in the first off Kumar Rocker (0-1) before Lowder (1-0) had even thrown the first of his 82 pitches in his second start this season. <\/p>\n

Lowder struck out four and gave up two leadoff walks. After allowing back-to-back singles with two outs in the first, the Rangers didn’t get another runner to second base against him. He retired 12 of his last 13 batters he faced.<\/p>\n

Texas, which has lost its first two home games<\/a> and three games in a row overall, was held scoreless for the first time.<\/p>\n

The seventh overall pick out of Wake Forest in the 2023 draft, Lowder made his big league debut in the final month of the 2024 season when he was 2-2 with a 1.17 ERA in six starts. He missed all of last season with because of a right forearm strain and then a left oblique strain.<\/p>\n

Rocker struck out three in his five innings. <\/p>\n

Matt McLain had a one-out single in the Reds first before a wild pitch. De La Cruz drove him home with a broken-bat single, then scored from first when Stewart lined a single into right-center on a hit-ad-run play. <\/p>\n

Chase Burns (1-0, 0.00 ERA), who got his first big league win Monday, pitches for the Reds in the series finale Sunday. Jack Leiter (1-0, 3.00) goes for Texas.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas — Rhett Lowder allowed three hits over six innings as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2393],"tags":[84620,4805,5,4,256,149,185,1567,69,3240],"class_list":{"0":"post-663886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-84620","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-baseball","13":"tag-rangers","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-texas-rangers","17":"tag-texasrangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116349823172830956","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663886","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=663886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}