ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Joc Pederson hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning and the Texas Rangers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-4 on Tuesday night for their season-best fifth straight victory.<\/p>\n
Pederson went 3 for 4 with two doubles and two RBIs. Josh Jung also drove in two runs and Kyle Higashioka had three hits for Texas.<\/p>\n
Evan Carter drew a leadoff walk in the ninth, moved to second on a wild pitch by Riley O\u2019Brien (3-3) and third when Higashioka singled. Pederson and Jung followed with RBI singles before Pederson scored on Brandon Nimmo\u2019s sacrifice fly to make it 7-4.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals are 2-9 in the regular season against Texas in St. Louis.<\/p>\n
Cal Quantrill (3-0) entered with a runner on second and two outs in the eighth and needed just one pitch to retire Iv\u00e1n Herrera. Jakob Junis pitched a scoreless ninth for his fourth save.<\/p>\n
JJ Wetherholt singled for the Cardinals in the seventh and scored on a double by Alec Burleson. Two pitches later, Jordan Walker\u2019s single drove in Herrera to make it 4-all before Rangers starter Nathan Eovaldi was relieved by Jalen Beeks.<\/p>\n
Eovaldi got his first no-decision in 12 starts this year. It was the longest such streak by a Texas starter to begin a season since 2015.<\/p>\n
Jimmy Crooks hit an RBI single in the second that snapped a string of 28 1\/3 consecutive scoreless innings by Rangers starters, the third-longest streak in franchise history. Nolan Gorman added a solo homer in the fourth for St. Louis.<\/p>\n
Carter scored when Nicky Lopez grounded into a forceout, and Pederson’s double two pitches later drove in Lopez to make it 2-all in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Higashioka scored on Pederson’s sacrifice fly in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Rangers LHP Mackenzie Gore (4-4, 3.96 ERA) starts Wednesday opposite RHP Andre Gallante (5-4, 4.19) in the series finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Joc Pederson hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning and the Texas Rangers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[1894,89620,5,226,3995,160,2266,9975,657,26953,13,4679,395,9390,4,394,516,1893,9500,9501,9496,9497,82856,9499,89619,21752,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":["post-716153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-alec-burleson","tag-andre-gallante","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-cal-quantrill","tag-cardinals","tag-evan-carter","tag-jake-junis","tag-jalen-beeks","tag-jimmy-crooks","tag-joc-pederson","tag-jordan-walker","tag-josh-jung","tag-kyle-higashioka","tag-mlb","tag-nathan-eovaldi","tag-nicky-lopez","tag-nolan-gorman","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-rangers-cardinals-score-pederson","tag-riley-obrien","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals"],"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\/716153","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=716153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}