The wild-card Rangers have outscored the Orioles and Tampa Bay — the top two teams in the American League in the regular season — by 25-11.
Gunnar Henderson and Aaron Hicks homered for the AL East champion Orioles, who haven’t been swept in a series of at least two games since May 2022.Hicks drove in five runs, including a three-run shot with one out in the ninth that brought the Orioles within three runs for the first time since before Garver’s grand slam.
Garver was in the lineup because it was “just time to get him out there” — to quote Bochy pregame. He hit .270 with 19 home runs in 87 games this year, and Bochy decided his power and batting eye made him worthy of the No. 3 spot in the batting order.Texas Rangers catcher Mitch Garver hits a grand slam home run during the third inning against the Baltimore Orioles.became the first player to walk five times in a postseason game and scored twice.
Hicks, who missed a key sign in the ninth inning of Game 1, poked a bases-loaded single to right field in the first. But the bottom of the Texas batting order barely gave the Camden Yards crowd time to feel hopeful.Texas Rangers’ Corey Seager goes to first base after he was walked in the ninth inning for the fifth time.A walk, a single and a two-run double by No. 9 hitter Leody Taveras tied the game.
Adolis García hit an RBI single up the middle, and Jonah Heim added a run-scoring single one out later to make it 5-2 and chase Rodriguez.
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