ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Nathan Eovaldi weathered a three-run Detroit uprising after taking a no-hitter into the fifth inning and Elias D\u00edaz, Josh Smith and Evan Carter hit solo home runs to help the Texas Rangers beat the Tigers 10-4 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
The Rangers matched a season high with 17 hits en route to their seventh victory in eight games. The Tigers arrived at Globe Life Field after sweeping three games at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n
Eovaldi (9-7) allowed only one walk through four innings and matched a season high with nine strikeouts in winning his fourth consecutive start, pitching five-plus innings. Detroit\u2019s Colt Keith led off the fifth by homering on an 0-2 cut fastball above the strike zone. Hao-Yu Lee added a two-run homer that barely cleared the wall in left, just beyond Alejandro Osuna\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n
Eovaldi allowed five hits in the fifth inning and was pulled leading 5-3 after Riley Greene led off the sixth with a double. Peyton Gray, Texas\u2019 third pitcher in the sixth, struck out Lee with the bases loaded to end the inning.<\/p>\n
D\u00edaz\u2019s home run came in Texas\u2019 three-run second inning, his second in two games.<\/p>\n
Smith, recalled from Triple-A Round Rock on Wednesday after previously missing 37 games primarily due to viral meningitis, hammered a first-pitch fastball for his first homer of the season and his first career pinch-hit homer in the sixth.<\/p>\n
Carter, activated from the injured list on Sunday, homered in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Osuna and Nicky Lopez each had three hits.<\/p>\n
Framber Valdez (4-6) allowed five runs on nine hits and two walks in five innings. That ended Detroit\u2019s club-record 35-game streak of starting pitchers allowing no more than four runs.<\/p>\n
The series will takes a break on Friday with a World Cup game between Australia and Egypt at the Dallas Cowboys\u2019 stadium. On Saturday, Tigers RHP Jack Flaherty (1-8, 4.97 ERA) was scheduled to face Rangers RHP Kumar Rocker (2-6, 3.83).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Nathan Eovaldi weathered a three-run Detroit uprising after taking a no-hitter into the fifth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[15633,5,1964,147,53,2583,4703,2266,79,84,392,360,4,394,516,9500,9501,60825,9496,9497,9498,9499,9495,624,594],"class_list":["post-741851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-tigers","tag-alejandro-osuna","tag-baseball","tag-colt-keith","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-detroittigers","tag-elias-diaz","tag-evan-carter","tag-framber-valdez","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-josh-smith","tag-kumar-rocker","tag-mlb","tag-nathan-eovaldi","tag-nicky-lopez","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-peyton-gray","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40792-ap-michigan-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-rangers-tigers-score","tag-riley-greene","tag-tigers"],"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\/741851","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=741851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}