ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Wilyer Abreu put Boston forward to stick with an RBI single after his earlier two-run homer, Nick Sogard had a two-run single for his first huge league hit and the Purple Sox beat the Texas Rangers 11-6 on Friday night time.
Ceddanne Rafaela and Rafael Devers additionally went deep for the wild card-chasing Purple Sox, who’ve received consecutive video games for the primary time since earlier than the All-Star break. They’re 5-8 in that stretch and remained two video games behind Minnesota for the AL’s third wild card.
“We were very aggressive early in counts, but not trying to do too much,” Purple Sox manger Alex Cora stated. “We had some quality at-bats, we ran the bases well, and then obviously we hit the ball out of the ballpark.”
Corey Seager hit two solo homers, added a sacrifice fly and scored three of the Texas runs. Marcus Semien and Leody Taveras additionally had lengthy balls.
All 4 Texas homers got here off starter Kutter Crawford (7-8), who struck out 5 and walked one in 5 1/3 innings.
“My execution has got be better. … I gave up some damage, and all those pitches were pretty much over the middle of the plate,” Crawford stated. “It feels good when your offense can put up seven, eight, nine runs. We can swing it with the best of them, we’ve kind of seen it all this year. Fortunately for me, tonight they had my back.”
Rangers right-hander José Ureña (3-6) allowed seven runs and eight hits pitching into the fifth.
The reigning World Collection champion Rangers have misplaced three video games in a row, and 6 of seven, since a five-game profitable streak that bought them inside a recreation of .500 — they haven’t had a profitable document since 24-23 on Could 18, and have been in third place within the AL West since June 20.
“Just got to play better,” Seager stated. “There’s always an urgency. You have to. I’ve talked about it all year, it’s about winning series, we’ve tried to do it all year. Haven’t done a good job of it lately.”
Seager put Texas up 1-0 within the first earlier than Abreu’s two-run shot within the second. After Taveras and Seager homered for a 3-2 lead within the third, the Purple Sox responded with a four-run fourth.
Boston’s huge inning started with 4 consecutive hits, with Connor Wong’s RBI single tying the sport earlier than Abreu adopted along with his. They each scored on a pointy liner to proper by Sogard, the 26-year-old second baseman who made his MLB debut after being known as up from Triple-A Worcester on Wednesday.
Rafaela homered within the sixth and Devers hit his twenty fifth within the ninth off Andrew Chafin, who made his first look for the Rangers since his commerce from Detroit on Tuesday.
Luis García retired all three batters he confronted within the ninth in his first Purple Sox recreation since they bought him in a deadline deal from the Los Angeles Angels.
