{"id":700388,"date":"2026-05-16T10:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/700388\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:45:27","slug":"silver-boot-series-astros-shut-out-rangers-in-first-2026-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/700388\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Boot Series: Astros shut out Rangers in first 2026 matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brief<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rangers and Houston Astros resumed their Silver Boot Series on Friday night, with the Astros coming away with a 2-0 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Texas only mustered one hit off of Astros starter Spencer Arrighetti, while Houston got a 3rd inning home run from Isaac Paredes to take the lead for good.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight was the first of 13 games to be played between the AL West rivals this season, and the 300th all-time game. The series is tied 150-150.<\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON, Texas &#8211; For the 300th time, the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers took the field against one another on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Astros shut out Rangers<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fox_aggregated_articles_807\/7dfe8949b011477a0286ab4d724b7d81.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON, TEXAS &#8211; MAY 15: Braden Shewmake #28 of the Houston Astros tags out Joc Pederson #3 of the Texas Rangers at second base in the sixth inning at Daikin Park on May 15, 2026 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Astros blanked the Texas Rangers by a score of 2-0 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Astros pitcher Spencer Arrighetti tossed eight scoreless innings, allowing only one hit on the night with five strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers starter Jack Leiter was no slouch either, allowing only one run in seven innings while striking out six.<\/p>\n<p>Houston only mustered five hits, but one of them was a home run by third baseman Isaac Paredes in the third inning, which was all the offense the team needed.<\/p>\n<p>Braden Shewmake added an RBI single in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Silver Boot stats<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fox_aggregated_articles_807\/9739d9002d39cb68a4f1112fc83f194f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON, TEXAS &#8211; SEPTEMBER 17: The Silver Boot Trophy on display before a game between the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers at Daikin Park on September 17, 2025 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Houston Astros\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>After tonight&#8217;s catchup, the all-time record between the two clubs is tied at 150 wins apiece.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros have won eight of the last nine Silver Boot Series dating back to 2017. In 2020, the teams tied 5-5 during the pandemic-shortened season.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Rangers defeated the Astros in the 2023 American League Championship Series, the only playoff meeting in the rivalry&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers and Astros&#8217; series continues this weekend, with tomorrow&#8217;s game set for a 6:10 p.m. CT first pitch. Sunday&#8217;s finale is scheduled to start at 1:10 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n<p>The Source<\/p>\n<p>Information in this story comes from MLB.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The Texas Rangers and Houston Astros resumed their Silver Boot Series on Friday night, with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,27690,139,54,3211,893,4,48291,4678,1567,69,3825],"class_list":["post-700388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-braden-shewmake","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-mlb","tag-silver-boot","tag-spencer-arrighetti","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-the-rangers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116583853306134364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700388","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=700388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}