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Rangers Find the Long Ball in win over Seattle

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The Texas Rangers offense exploded with 4 home runs, and a strong performance from Cole Hamels, which allowed for the team to pull within 1 game of the AL West leading Houston Astros.

The offensive explosion began with 1B Mitch Moreland hitting a solo home run in the second, followed by a 3 run shot by Shin-Soo Choo in the third, and then a 2 run shot by Rougned Odor in the fourth and a solo shot in the sixth by Joey Gallo.

LF Joey Gallo hits a solo home run in the sixth.

LF Joey Gallo hits a solo home run in the sixth.

Pitcher Cole Hamels did have a scare in the third when Jesus Sucre hit a line drive up the middle that bounced off his glove and hit him. “I was lucky it hit the muscle I have on my body,” Hamels said. “It absorbed everything. I’ll have a nice bruise for a couple of days.”

Hamels is now 3-1 as a Ranger and Pitcher Shawn Tolleson was able to earn his 31st save.

Tomorrow: The Texas Rangers play their 3rd game of a 4 game series in Seattle with Martin Perez pitching against the Mariners Vidal Nuno.

 

 

 

Texas Rangers (73-64) 9, Seattle Mariners (66-73) 6
September 8, 2015

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Texas 0 1 3 2 0 1 0 1 1 9 8 0
Seattle 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 2 0 6 9 2

 

Texas AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO PO A
Venable, CF .242 4 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0
Choo, RF .254 3 1 1 0 0 1 3 2 0 4 0
Fielder, DH .310 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
  1-Alberto, PR-DH .224 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Beltre, 3B .265 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1
Moreland, 1B .287 5 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 11 0
Andrus, SS .259 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 2
Odor, 2B .275 4 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 3 1 5
Gallo, LF .214 4 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0
  Stubbs, LF .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gimenez, C .241 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 1
  Hamels, P .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Diekman, P .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Kela, P .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  Tolleson, Sh, P .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals .255 37 9 8 1 0 4 9 4 6 27 9
1-Ran for Fielder in the 9th.
BATTING
2B: Venable (2, Ramirez, J).
HR: Moreland (19, 2nd inning off Walker, T, 0 on, 1 out), Choo (17, 3rd inning off Walker, T, 2 on, 1 out), Odor (12, 4th inning off Walker, T, 1 on, 0 out), Gallo (6, 8th inning off Zych, 0 on, 0 out).
RBI: Moreland (69), Choo 3 (64), Odor 2 (47), Venable (2), Gallo (14), Andrus (51).
Team RISP: 3-for-9.
Team LOB: 7.

BASERUNNING
SB: Venable (14, 2nd base off Ramirez/Sucre).

FIELDING
DP: (Odor-Andrus-Moreland).
Texas ERA IP H R ER BB SO HR BF
Hamels (W, 3-1) 4.07 7.0 8 4 4 1 3 0 29
Diekman 3.14 0.0 1 2 2 1 0 1 2
Kela 2.62 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3
Tolleson, Sh (S, 31) 2.80 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3
Totals 4.32 9.0 9 6 6 2 7 1 37
Diekman pitched to 2 batters in the 8th.
Walker, T pitched to 2 batters in the 4th.

Team ER: off Texas 6, off Seattle 7.
BB: off Hamels (O’Malley), Diekman (Romero, S), off Ramirez (Choo), Ramirez, J 2 (Gimenez, Choo), Beimel (Fielder).
SO: by Hamels 3 (Romero, S, Marte, K, Montero, J), Kela 2 (Trumbo, Montero, J), Tolleson, Sh 2 (O’Malley, Marte, K), by Walker, T 2 (Odor, Beltre), Ramirez, J (Gallo), Guaipe 2 (Beltre, Odor), Kensing (Odor).
WP: Beimel.
HB: Venable (by Ramirez), Odor (by Ramirez, J).
Pitches-strikes: Hamels 98-61, Diekman 15-10, Kela 15-9, Tolleson, Sh 13-9, Walker, T 59-36, Ramirez 29-14, Ramirez, J 25-11, Guaipe 20-15, Zych 15-8, Beimel 16-7, Kensing 11-8.
Inherited runners-scored: Guaipe 3-0, Kensing 2-1.
Umpires: HP: Tom Hallion. 1B: Dan Bellino. 2B: Bruce Dreckman. 3B: Alfonso Marquez.
Official Scorer: Dan Peterson.
Weather: 69 degrees, cloudy.
Wind: 3 mph, Out to LF.
T: 3:12.
Att: 13,389.
Venue: Safeco Field.
September 8, 2015

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