ARLINGTON — The Rangers entered Sunday afternoon’s collection finale towards the Guardians 0-for-27 when trailing after seven innings.
It’s an nearly astonishing stat when contemplating Texas has boasted among the finest offenses in baseball with the perfect run differential within the American League via the primary half of the season. The hits had been sure to fall finally.
And they did on Sunday.
Texas was trailing from the very first batter towards Cleveland after Steven Kwan launched a leadoff homer towards Martín Pérez to open the sport, however the Rangers offense saved chipping away earlier than roaring again for a four-run eighth inning to beat the Guardians, 6-5, and full a sweep to kick off the second half.
The rally began with back-to-back one-out walks from Corey Seager and Marcus Semien earlier than three straight RBI hits from Nathaniel Lowe, Adolis García and Josh Jung gave the Rangers a one-run lead going into the ninth inning.
Jung, Texas’ rookie third baseman, was 1-for-his-last-12 within the collection earlier than knocking within the go-ahead run with a two-run single to cap off the rally.
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