Pittsburgh Pirates at Texas Rangers

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Pittsburgh Pirates

13-10, 5-5 Away

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Texas Rangers

12-11, 4-3 Home

Carter drives in a run and robs Cruz of a homer as Rangers beat Pirates 5-1

Evan Carter's RBI single ties score for Rangers

Cruz singled leading off the game against Rocker (1-1). He stole second and took an extra base on Danny Jansen's throwing error. Ryan O'Hearn singled for a 1-0 lead two batters into the game.

Joc Pederson singled leading off the second against Carmen Mlodzinski (1-1) and Josh Jung doubled him to third. Carter singled to tie it and Josh Smith hit a sacrifice fly to put the Rangers up 2-1.

Carter then robbed Cruz of a three-run homer in the fifth to keep it 2-1.

Eqequiel Duran, who came in after left fielder Wyatt Langford left with forearm stiffness, had an RBI double in the Rangers' fifth and Corey Seager ended Mlodzinski's night with an RBI single for a 4-1 lead. Wilber Dotel entered and gave up a single to Jake Burger before walking Pederson. Jung drove in Seager on a forceout for the final run.

Rocker threw 88 pitches and allowed four hits and a walk, striking out five. Cole Winn, Jacob Latz and Jakob Junis each pitched a scoreless inning to close it out.

Mlodzinski threw 93 pitches and surrendered all five runs on six hits and two walks. He fanned six.

The Rangers (12-11) moved a game over .500 at the start of a nine-game homestand after playing 16 of their first 22 games on the road.

Pittsburgh dropped to 5-5 on the road and 13-10 for the season.

Langford was the Rangers' hottest hitter before his injury, going 7 for 14 as Texas dropped two of three in Seattle before coming home. He walked and stole his third base in the first inning and left after striking out in the third.

Up next Pirates RHP Braxton Ashcraft (1-1, 2.38) starts Wednesday opposite Rangers RHP Jack Leiter (1-1, 4.87).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Mangum flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Gonzales singled to center.
	9th Inning	Yorke grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Ozuna popped out to second.
	9th Inning	Junis relieved Latz
	8th Inning	Nimmo struck out looking.

Statistics

PIT		$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	11
9	Strikeouts	10
1	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
6	Hits	8
1	Stolen Bases	1
1	Walks	5
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	5
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
33	At Bats	31
0	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
14	Runners Left On Base	18
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	4
10	Fly Balls	11
0	Caught Stealing	0
127	Pitches	161
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
6	Total Bases	12
34	Plate Appearances	37
0.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
0	Extra Base Hits	4
0.5	Runs Created	5.0
.182	Batting Average	.258
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.182	Slugging Percentage	.387
.061	Secondary Average	.323
.206	On Base Percentage	.351
.388	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.738
1.4	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.0
0.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.6
11.0	Batter Rating	37.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.74	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.35
.000	Isolated Power	.129
0.11	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.50
.029	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.135
-.121	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.065
2.0	Runs Produced	10.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.2	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.4
64.5	MLB Rating	82.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0