Rangers Beat Yankees

via Texas Rangers

ARLINGTON — The Rangers have a long way to go before they can start salvaging their season, but victories like this give them the bravado and the confidence that it can be done.

The Rangers had to come back from two sizable deficits, but they were able to pull out a 12-10 victory over the Yankees on Wednesday night at Globe Life Park. The dual rallies allowed the Rangers to win their second straight and take the three-game series. The Yankees had won eight consecutive series before losing two of three to the Rangers.

“We talked about building confidence, just playing a solid baseball game, put ourselves in a position to win a baseball game,” Rangers manager Jeff Banister said. “I didn’t know it was going to be the variety of game it was, but I’ve got to believe that there’s a number of guys in that clubhouse that gained a lot of confidence tonight. In Shin-Soo Choo’s words, it was one of the more exciting games he’s been in. When you take that from a veteran … look, a lot of things in that game were special today.”




The Rangers, trailing 4-0, didn’t get their first hit off Yankees starter CC Sabathia until the fourth inning. But Nomar Mazara hit a two-run home run, and Ronald Guzman had a three-run shot in the frame to give the Rangers a 5-4 lead.

The Yankees responded with six runs in the fifth to go ahead, 10-5, but the Rangers didn’t stop. Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s triple led to two runs in the bottom of the fifth, and Jurickson Profar put the Rangers ahead in the sixth with a three-run double off of reliever David Robertson. Banister said walks by Choo and Kiner-Falefa before Profar’s double were as big as anything.

“We believe we have a great team,” Profar said. “We haven’t showed it yet, but I still believe we have a great team. To show it tonight will do a lot for our confidence. We know we can do it. The Yankees are the best team. Our team seems to play good against good teams. We need to do it with every team.”

This is the first time the Rangers have won a game despite their pitchers allowing at least 10 runs since a 13-11 victory over the White Sox on May 10, 2016. It was just their fifth such win since the beginning of the 2010 season.

“We kept moving the lineup with a lot of great at-bats,” Mazara said. “That’s how we need to play. Whether we are leading or not, we have to have the same mentality and try to create something every inning. It doesn’t matter what the score is.”

Rangers starter Doug Fister allowed eight runs (six earned) in 4 1/3 innings. But the late-inning relief combination of Alex Claudio, Jose Leclerc, Chris Martin and Keone Kela gave the Rangers three scoreless innings after Profar put them ahead. Kela struck out the side in the ninth and is now 10-for-10 in save chances as the Rangers’ closer.

“It shows the fight in the dog,” Fister said. “The guys were fighting and clawing from the first pitch, and we had some things fall our way. It’s not by chance or luck, guys worked really hard and came through. It’s a huge win for us.”



Share and Enjoy !

Shares