Texas Rangers rookie Josh Jung hit his first career grand slam in the first inning against the New York Yankees. The Rangers offense combined walks and home...
to go for it. He didn’t, and that’s fine too. Instead, he worked a seven-pitch, two-out walk to score Robbie Grossman and give the Rangers a nine-run lead.
Approach. Therein lies the foundation of Texas’ 15-2 win over the Yankees on Sunday. A little bit of aggression and a little bit of patience . It all amounted to the club’s 17th win by the end of April, tied for the second-most in team history, and a plus-72 run differential through 28 games, the best in franchise history.
The Rangers knocked Cortes, a 2022 All-Star, out of the game in the fourth inning. They scored seven runs off of him; Jung’s grand slam in the first, a two-run home run from Nathaniel Lowe in the fifth and an Adolis Garcia solo shot one at bat later. Jonah Heim, two at bats after Garcia, hit a solo home run off of Yankees reliever Albert Abreu to make it an 8-1 game.View Gallery
Of Texas’ eight walks, five came from the team’s top three hitters in the lineup: Marcus Semien , Grossman and Lowe .“These guys do a great job of sticking with the plan that they go through, showing some patience up there and passing it off,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said. “If they don’t get a pitch or a strike, they give it to the next guy. Really, that’s what works, and then somebody comes through for you.
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