{"id":786632,"date":"2026-08-23T22:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/786632\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T22:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:30:38","slug":"duran-and-diaz-homers-quantrills-6-scoreless-innings-help-rangers-beat-angels-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/786632\/","title":{"rendered":"Dur\u00e1n and D\u00edaz homers, Quantrill&#8217;s 6 scoreless innings help Rangers beat Angels 5-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Ezequiel Dur\u00e1n and Elias D\u00edaz hit solo homers, Cal Quantrill worked six scoreless innings and the Texas Rangers beat the Los Angeles Angels 5-3 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Rangers moved into a tie with the Houston Astros for first place in the AL West with records of 65-66.<\/p>\n<p>Dur\u00e1n put Texas on the board early, launching his 14th home run of the year into the left-center seats for a 1-0 lead. Cody Freeman added an RBI triple \u2014 his first of the season \u2014 before D\u00edaz extended the lead to 5-0 in the fifth inning with a solo homer, his sixth of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Quantrill (6-4) allowed six hits, didn&#8217;t allow a walk and struck out six. He now boasts five-straight starts of five or more innings allowing a run or less, and extended his scoreless innings streak to 15.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Latz worked a one-hit ninth for his 26th save of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Neto started an eighth-inning rally for the Angels with a homer. Josh Lowe hit a sacrifice fly, and Gustavo Campero added an RBI single, but that was all the offense the Angels mustered.<\/p>\n<p>Yusei Kikuchi (0-4) allowed all five runs on seven hits. He struck out four in five innings for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Angels RHP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/angels\/roster\/probable-pitchers\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Klassen<\/a> (2-1, 3.74 ERA) starts a home series against the Guardians on Monday. Cleveland has not named a starter.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers have not announced a starter for their series opener against the White Sox in Chicago on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Ezequiel Dur\u00e1n and Elias D\u00edaz hit solo homers, Cal Quantrill worked six scoreless innings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[42885,5,3995,34250,4703,18086,32138,1337,9270,1397,4,9500,9501,9496,9497,39138,9499,149,1567,69,3240,809,2052],"class_list":["post-786632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-angels-rangers-score","tag-baseball","tag-cal-quantrill","tag-cody-freeman","tag-elias-diaz","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-george-klassen","tag-gustavo-campero","tag-jake-latz","tag-josh-lowe","tag-mlb","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-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-rangers","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-yusei-kikuchi","tag-zach-neto"],"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\/786632","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=786632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}