After another dormant evening for the Rangers offense, Corey Seager and Josh Smith saved the day with late-inning home runs to beat Houston.
Texas Rangers' Josh Smith, center, celebrates with teammates after hitting a walk-off two-run home run during the tenth inning against the Houston Astros, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Arlington, Texas. It’s not your normal pregame hype-up. But Swedish-American pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis — an LSU graduate and the brother of Smith’s former Tigers teammate Antoine Duplantis — had just leapt for a new world record and sent Smith into a frenzy by his locker.
He has the fewest wins and most losses of any qualified starting pitcher with a sub-4.00 ERA leaguewide. He settled for his eighth no decision this season on Monday after six innings of one-hit, one-run ball. Houston third baseman Alex Bregman bashed a changeup into left field for a two-out home run in the third inning, but Heaney retired the next 10 batters he faced before Bochy lifted him at 80 pitches — the fewest he’d thrown in a start since May 1 vs. Washington — before the seventh inning.
The Rangers eked out their first run on a fifth-inning Leody Taveras sacrifice fly that scored Nathaniel Lowe, who walked and took third base on aTexas had a chance to walk the game off after rookie Wyatt Langford worked a 10-pitch walk with one out in the bottom of the ninth vs. Houston closer Josh Hader, but Lowe and García both struck out to end the inning.
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