frisco.city chose Corey Seager for The Hit That Counted - the Little Elm angle on a Rangers night that otherwise belongs to Jacob deGrom's 2,000th strikeout.
In the third inning at Globe Life Field, Seager hit a 382-foot opposite-field home run to left-center off Andrew Alvarez, ESPN's scoring play shows. It was the first run of a 2-0 Texas win. ESPN's box has Seager 2-for-4 with a double and that homer (13th home run, 31st RBI). Two of the Rangers' six hits were his.
A lineup that could not cash in
Texas went 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position and stranded eight, per ESPN and the Associated Press. The only other run was manufactured: Ezequiel Duran tripled in the eighth and Nicky Lopez lifted a sacrifice fly, ESPN recorded. For five innings, Seager's solo shot was the entire lead in front of a combined one-hitter.
Alvarez went five innings with four hits, one earned run, three walks, and five strikeouts in a loss that left him 2-5, ESPN's pitching table shows. The AP noted Washington brought the majors' highest-scoring offense into the series and still took a fifth shutout of the season (second in three games).
What the pitching did with one run
deGrom: six innings, one hit, 10 strikeouts. Jake Junis, Chase Silseth, and Jacob Latz (25th save) finished the one-hitter, the AP and ESPN show. The Dallas Morning News and ESPN put Texas at 63-65, tied for the AL's third wild-card spot; Washington was 61-68.
