ARLINGTON — Scenes from a weekend: Rangers starting pitchers didn’t allow a run in back-to-back games. Aroldis Chapman was acquired, arrived, and blew gas by...
, struck out a pair in a scoreless seventh. He struck out Martin Maldonado with a 101.6 mph fastball, the single hardest pitch thrown by a Ranger this year.“You saw what he is,” Bochy said. “A really big arm. Tough competitor. I thought it went really well.”
That, however, is where “really well,” ended. Josh Sborz, a contender for AL Reliever of the Month in June, walked a pair of batters and then left a first-pitch fastball over the heart of the plate to Chas McCormick, who turned it into a bases-loaded triple. The Rangers drew within a run on a two-run homer by Nathaniel Lowe in the bottom of the inning, but Brock Burke surrendered a leadoff homer to Altuve in the ninth.The Rangers went 1 for 6 with runners in scoring position.
It also comes down to this: If they can’t get the big hit on Monday in the series finale, an otherwise lovely weekend instead turns into an incredible shrinking lead.
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