ARLINGTON, TX – The Texas Rangers slugged 4 homers and swept a 6-match homestand with a 6- earn over the Miami Marlins on Sunday in a sport in which they lost standout rookie third baseman Josh Jung with a fractured thumb.
Nathaniel Lowe, Marcus Semien, Ezequiel Duran and Adolis Garcia homered whilst Andrew Heaney authorized four singles in 5 2/3 shutout innings.
The six-game profitable streak and 4 homers matched Texas highs this year. The Rangers, who went into play top the big leagues averaging 5.78 operates for every sport, have strike several homers in six consecutive game titles to match a franchise history.
Jung fractured the thumb on a bizarre participate in in the top rated of the sixth inning with runners on initial and second and nobody out. Jorge Soler strike a scorching, 110-mph liner immediately at Jung. The ball bounded out of Jung’s glove, but he grabbed it and commenced a double play. He tagged the bag, then threw to Marcus Semien at second. Jung then still left the match.
“We’ll see a specialist and see in which we are at, what demands to be done, no matter what,” Texas manager Bruce Bochy stated. “We just never know still.”
Jung went into play major main league rookies in property runs (22), RBIs (67) and hits (117) and leading AL rookies in runs (70) and excess-foundation hits (47). The 25-12 months-outdated experienced commenced all 107 Rangers online games this period.
The Rangers had been by now enjoying without the need of All-Star shortstop Corey Seager, who was held out due to the fact of lingering consequences of a correct-thumb injuries endured very last thirty day period. Bochy stated Seager, who hurt the thumb on July 21, could possibly also pass up Monday night’s sport at Oakland.
Texas is also lacking its top rated starter, All-Star pitcher Nathan Eovaldi, who is second in the AL in wins (11) and Period (2.69). He is on the injured checklist with a forearm strain and hasn’t pitched because July 18.
Texas, which hasn’t had a profitable season given that 2016, qualified prospects the AL West by 2½ games over the World Series winner Houston Astros.
The Marlins have missing 4 straight but with Cincinnati’s Sunday loss remain a half-match our of the ultimate NL wild card place.
The play in which Jung was injured blunted a opportunity Miami rally when trailing 4-.
“I haven’t viewed a engage in like that ever in my large-league job,” Marlins supervisor Skip Schumaker said. “When you’re on a streak like this, these performs take place.”
Lowe lofted a two-operate generate to appropriate discipline in the 3rd inning that barely landed in the house bullpen. Semien’s homer sailed into the visitors’ bullpen in left in the fifth inning. Duran led off the sixth with a homer to middle following moving into the activity in the leading of the inning. Garcia, the AL’s leader with 89 RBIs, homered to middle top off the eighth for his 29th this season.
Heaney (9-6) gave up two hits in the second inning, then retired 10 consecutive batters right before leaving with two runners on in the sixth. He has a occupation-most effective scoreless streak of 15 2/3 innings.
Sandy Alcantara (4-10), the NL’s reigning Cy Younger winner, gave up five operates in 6 innings and permitted three homers for the initially time considering that past September. Alcantara is 1-4 in his past 7 starts off.
