WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Evan Carter and Jake Burger each finished a triple short of the cycle as the Texas Rangers beat the slumping Washington Nationals 4-2 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Carter hit a two-run homer, doubled and singled his first three times up, but struck out in the eighth inning. Burger doubled, flied out and singled before providing an insurance run with a homer in the eighth.<\/p>\n
Jacob Webb (3-3), the second of five Texas pitchers in a bullpen game, threw 1 2\/3 scoreless innings for the win. Robert Garcia got four outs for his fourth save.<\/p>\n
The Rangers, 5-0 winners behind Jacob deGrom on Saturday, have won consecutive games for the first time since a six-game streak May 10-15.<\/p>\n
Alex Call homered and singled for the Nationals, who have scored only 11 runs in their past seven games. Nathaniel Lowe had three of their six hits.<\/p>\n
Washington starter Trevor Williams (3-7) gave up three runs \u2014 two earned \u2014 and six hits in 4 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
The first pitch was delayed by rain for 1 hour, 40 minutes.<\/p>\n
Marcus Semien reached on a bad-hop single leading off the second and Carter homered one out later to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n
Call homered leading off the fourth. Amed Rosario walked and scored on a fielder’s choice to tie it.<\/p>\n
Semien’s groundout brought home Josh Smith with the go-ahead run in the fifth. Smith doubled with one out and went to third on an error.<\/p>\n
Jacob Latz started for Texas and gave up two runs on two hits in 3 1\/3 innings while striking out eight. After the walk to Rosario, manager Bruce Bochy and an athletic trainer came out and Latz left with the trainer.<\/p>\n
Latz, who had a cut on his thumb, said he was fine after the game.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Call reached on an error with two outs in the eighth, but Garcia entered and got James Wood to ground out.<\/p>\n
Key stats<\/p>\n
Semien had two hits and is 15 for 27 (.517) with three homers, nine RBIs and 10 runs scored in his last nine games. … Rangers shortstop Corey Seager is hitless in his last 25 at-bats.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Rangers: RHP Tyler Mahle (5-3, 2.02 ERA) pitches the opener of a three-game series at Minnesota on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Nationals: LHP MacKenzie Gore (3-5, 2.87) starts the first of three games at the New York Mets on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Evan Carter and Jake Burger each finished a triple short of the cycle as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,384,2266,442,400,386,4,415,149,1567,69,3240,4718],"class_list":{"0":"post-90408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas-rangers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-corey-seager","10":"tag-evan-carter","11":"tag-jacob-webb","12":"tag-jake-burger","13":"tag-marcus-semien","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-nationals","16":"tag-rangers","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-texas-rangers","19":"tag-texasrangers","20":"tag-trevor-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114652360569029991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90408","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=90408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}