Rangers rally again with a four-run seventh to beat Athletics
The Rangers did it again. Okay, it wasn’t a ninth-inning walk-off, but they still rallied late with a four-run seventh inning to win their season-high fifth consecutive game, this time 6-5 Saturday night over the Oakland Athletics at Globe Life Park. Elvis Andrus delivered a two-run single to tie it and Nomar Mazara doubled in two more for the lead on a fly ball that was misplayed by left fielder Khris Davis.
How Rangers pitchers fared: Nick Martinez held the A’s to three runs on seven hits in six innings. Oakland tied it at 1-1 with a run in the fourth. Jed Lowrie doubled with one out to the left-field corner and scored on Yonder Alonso’s two-out single.
The A’s took a 3-2 lead in the fifth on a two-run single down the first-base line by Matt Joyce. A walk and a single with no outs set up the inning for the A’s. Tony Barnette started the seventh and allowed a run on three singles to put the Rangers in a 4-2 hole. Barnette didn’t catch any breaks in the inning. The run scored on Adam Rosales’ bloop single to center and Rajai Davis reached on an infield single to third. Andrus made a nice stop on a one-hopper behind second base, stepped on second base and caught Rosales in a run down for an inning-ending 6-5-6 double play. Keone Kela allowed a solo homer to Yonder Alonso in the eighth that cut the lead to 6-5. Matt Bush pitched a perfect ninth for his third save.
How Rangers hitters fared: Joey Gallo led off with a walk in the third, moved to second on Delino DeShields’ single to center and was at third after a 3-6-1 double play by Shin-Soo Choo. Andrus drove in Gallo with a two-out, RBI single to left to give the Rangers a 1-0 lead. Robinson Chirinos led off with a bloop single and moved to third on Mike Napoli’s single to left. Carlos Gomez scored Chirinos on a soft groundout to third to reclaim a 2-1 lead for the Rangers. Andrus, Mazara and DeShields each had two hits.
Notables: The paid attendance was 37,898, plus 871 dogs were on hand for Bark in the Park night at Globe Life Park ... the Rangers (18-20) are two games under .500 for the first time since April 29. The last time the Rangers were one game under .500 was April 23.
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Oakland | 000 | 120 | 110 | — | 5 | 11 | 0 |
Texas | 001 | 100 | 40x | — | 6 | 10 | 0 |
Oakland AB | R | H | BI | BB | SO | Avg. | |
R.Davis cf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .211 |
Joyce rf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .190 |
Lowrie 2b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .289 |
K.Davis lf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .219 |
Alonso 1b | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .302 |
Healy dh | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 |
Plouffe 3b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .230 |
Maxwell c | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .211 |
Rosales ss | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .269 |
Vogt ph | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .198 |
Totals 35 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | ||
Texas AB | R | H | BI | BB | SO | Avg. | |
Choo dh | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .244 |
Andrus ss | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .276 |
Mazara rf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .242 |
Chirinos c | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .297 |
Odor 2b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .201 |
Napoli 1b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .170 |
Gomez cf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .230 |
Gallo 3b | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .200 |
DeShields lf | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .243 |
Rua lf | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .179 |
Totals 33 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 5 | ||
LOB—Oakland 4, Texas 7. 2B—Lowrie (10), Mazara 2 (7). HR—Alonso (12), off Kela. RBIs—Joyce 2 (13), Alonso 2 (29), Rosales (11), Andrus 3 (16), Mazara 2 (25), Gomez (13). SB—Andrus (7), Odor (3), Rua (2). Runners left in scoring position—Oakland 1 (Plouffe); Texas 6 (Choo 2, Mazara, Napoli, Gomez, Gallo). RISP—Oakland 3 for 7; Texas 3 for 14. DP—Oakland 1; Texas 2.
Oakland | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | NP | ERA |
Gray | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 106 | 3.78 |
Dull, L, 1-2, H, 8 | 1/3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 6.28 |
Hendriks, BS, 1-1 | 2/3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3.86 |
Montas | 2/3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 6.23 |
Coulombe | 1/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2.92 |
Texas | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | NP | ERA |
Martinez | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 91 | 5.04 |
Barnette, W, 1-0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5.14 |
Kela, H, 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 4.85 |
Bush, S, 3-4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 1.42 |
Inherited runners-scored—Hendriks 3-3, Coulombe 2-0. WP—Martinez, Dull. T—3:26. A—37,898 (48,114).
This story was originally published May 13, 2017 at 10:34 PM with the headline "Rangers rally again with a four-run seventh to beat Athletics."