Nearly 1,600 miles away, the final out was determined to end a home-opening loss for the Texas Rangers.
Colorado manager Bud Black asked for a replay review in the bottom of the 10th inning after second baseman Brendan Rodgers, with Rangers newcomer Mitch Garver sliding hard toward him, made an errant throw that allowed a run to score while taking away the chance for a game-ending double play.
After both teams got solo homers in the ninth, Jose Iglesias' fourth hit was a tiebreaking RBI single in top of 10th inning for the Rockies before Connor Joe added a homer off Greg Holland , the eighth Texas pitcher. Umpire crew chief Bill Miller, who relayed the final decision of the replay from the MLB office, told a pool reporter that Garver didn't maintain possession of the base.
"It's more of a technicality at the end," Texas manager Chris Woodward said."It's really frustrating to lose a game like that. ... There's nothing we can do about that. We have to play better baseball, towards the end of games." The Rockies got unearned runs in the seventh on third baseman Charlie Culberson's fielding error, and in the eighth on new shortstop Corey Seager's throwing error wide of first when trying to turn an ending-inning double play.
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