ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) 鈥� Jacob deGrom struck out nine over five innings for his first victory in more than a month and the Texas Rangers beat Baltimore 5-1 on Saturday night for their fourth consecutive victory.
The Rangers (59-58) moved back over .500 with the winning streak since a season-worst six-game losing streak that knocked them out of the AL West lead. They were also within a half-game of the division lead after .
Texas went ahead to stay with two unearned runs in the second inning, on two infield singles and two throwing errors. Corey Seager hit a three-run homer in the eighth.
It was the first start for deGrom (8-7) since he told the Rangers before last Monday’s trade deadline that . At least one contending team inquired about the two-time Cy Young Award winner who has a full no-trade clause in his contract.
The right-hander struck out half of the 18 batters he faced and walked one while throwing 88 pitches (55 strikes). He had gone 0-2 while allowing 13 earned runs in 18 innings his previous four starts since a win June 30 at Cleveland.
Baltimore starter Kyle Bradish (7-11) struck out four without a walk over six innings.
Jackson Holliday homered for the Orioles (56-61), with the 403-foot homer snapping his 0-for-18 slide after deGrom struck out the game’s first two batters. Baltimore has lost five of seven games while scoring a combined three runs in the losses.
had the first Texas hit in the second and moved up two bases on an errant pickoff attempt by Bradish. Duran scored with a sweeping headfirst slide on Evan Carter’s fielder’s choice grounder to drawn-in shortstop Gunnar Henderson.
A wild pitch sent Carter to second, and he scored when Henderson couldn’t make a barehanded grab on Jake Burger’s slow-rolling infield single. Henderson quickly recovered the ball, but made an errant throw home trying to get Carter.
Up next
In the series finale Sunday, left-hander Cade Povich (2-1, 3.91 ERA) was set to pitch for the Orioles, and right-hander Kumar Rocker (4-8, 4.08) for Texas.
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