The Texas Rangers scored four runs while the Washington Nationals scored two runs.<\/p>\n
One of the consequences of having a rotation that is filled with oft-infirmed arms is most are required to be handled with kid gloves. That philosophy necessitated a precautionary trip to the injured list for Nathan Eovaldi and with Kumar Rocker not yet big league viable, the Rangers opted for a full bullpen game for today\u2019s finale from D.C.<\/p>\n
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It worked out just fine.<\/p>\n
Six Rangers pitchers combined to allow two runs on six hits with a couple of walks and eleven strikeouts. Jacob Latz made his second ever career start and did what constituted as the heavy lifting for the day with 3 1\u20443 innings of work with a career high seven strikeouts.<\/p>\n
After \u201cstarter\u201d Latz left, a quartet of Jacob Webb, Hoby Milner, Shawn Armstrong, and Robert Garcia combined to work through the remaining 5 2\u20443 innings, allowing just five Nationals to reach.<\/p>\n
Texas is simply living a charmed life on the mound this year.<\/p>\n
Player of the Game: At the plate, the Rangers were in danger of some pretty 2025 Rangers shenanigans \u2014 going 0-for-11 with RISP and leaving eight on base \u2014 but they did have four runs cross the plate so no one is complaining.<\/p>\n
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Jake Burger collected three hits, including a home run. Meanwhile, Evan Carter was flirting with a cycle.<\/p>\n
Carter\u2019s two-run blast in the top of the second helped give the bullpen arms something to work with. Carter also doubled and then singled in his next two at-bats but the triple eluded him in his last attempt.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, Carter\u2019s 3-for-4 day, combined with Burger\u2019s big day right ahead of him in the order, allowed Texas to do enough to leave Washington with a series win as they claimed just their third instance of winning consecutive games on the road this season.<\/p>\n
Up Next: The Rangers will take a breather on Monday as they next head north to Minnesota to open up a series against the Twins beginning on Tuesday evening at Target Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Rangers scored four runs while the Washington Nationals scored two runs. One of the consequences of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,2266,12525,19541,442,400,360,822,4,394,415,149,13188,10630,69,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-91489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-evan-carter","10":"tag-hoby-milner","11":"tag-jacob-latz","12":"tag-jacob-webb","13":"tag-jake-burger","14":"tag-kumar-rocker","15":"tag-minnesota","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-nathan-eovaldi","18":"tag-nationals","19":"tag-rangers","20":"tag-robert-garcia","21":"tag-shawn-armstrong","22":"tag-texas-rangers","23":"tag-washington","24":"tag-washington-nationals","25":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114654881026514968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91489","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=91489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}