Editing Rangers Blank Guardians To Halt Five-game Skid

Jon Gray scattered four singles over 6 1/3 innings and Adolis Garcia homered and had two hits and two RBIs as the Texas Rangers snapped a season-high five-game losing streak with a 4-0 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday night in Arlington, Tex.<br><br>Marcus Semien also homered and Leody Taveras tripled and scored a run for Texas, which evened its home record for the season at 11-11.<br><br>Gray (2-1) picked up the win, walking two and striking out three. Kirby Yates struck out the side after giving up a bloop single to Will Brennan to start the ninth and Jose Leclerc and David Robertson combined to allow just one hit over 1 2/3 innings of relief for  [https://airparknewark.com/ Cerita Dewasa kawin kontrak] the Rangers, who remained 1 1/2 games behind the first-place Seattle Mariners in the American League West.<br><br>Andres Gimenez had two hits for Cleveland, which had a three-game winning streak snapped. Carlos Carrasco (2-4) took the loss, allowing two runs on five hits over five innings. He walked one and struck out three.<br><br>Texas loaded the bases with one out in the fourth but failed to score thanks to a dazzling defensive play by first baseman Josh Naylor, who fielded a Jonah Heim grounder, tagged the first base bag and then threw out Corey Seager at the plate for an inning-ending double-play.<br><br>The Rangers then took a 2-0 lead in the fifth inning. Taveras tripled into the right-field corner with two outs and scored on Semien's eighth home run of the season, a 378-foot drive to left that grazed off the tip of the glove of leaping Estevan Florial at the fence.<br><br>Texas extended the lead to 4-0 in the sixth against reliever Nick Sandlin. Nathaniel Lowe led off with a walk and Garcia followed with his 10th homer and second in two games, a 394-foot drive to left.<br><br>--Field Level Media