The Texas Rangers defeat the Houston Astros 7-3 on Friday night, with key power in the eighth inning. After Houston rallies to tie the game in the seventh, the Rangers score four runs in the eighth, breaking the contest. Wyatt Langford starts the rally with a leadoff home run, and Jake Burger adds extra damage with a three-run homer. The blasts come off Astros pitcher Bryan King, who is charged with the runs that extend Texas’s lead. Earlier in the game, Houston had been trailing 3-0 but later stages a comeback, including long balls from Yordan Alvarez. Alvarez hits his 200th career home run, which is also his 30th of the season, as part of Houston’s seventh-inning effort to level the score. With Texas adding insurance in the eighth, the Rangers hold on for the win 7-3, preventing any further Astros comeback.
Langford and Burger homer as Rangers beat Astros 7-3
The Texas Rangers defeat the Houston Astros 7-3 on Friday night, with key power in the eighth inning. After Houston rallies to tie the game in the seventh, the Rangers score four runs in the eighth, b...
- The Texas Rangers beat the Houston Astros 7-3 on Friday night.
- Wyatt Langford hits a leadoff home run to begin a four-run eighth inning.
- Jake Burger hits a three-run homer in the same four-run eighth.
- Houston ties the game in the seventh inning after trailing 3-0 early.
- Yordan Alvarez hits a 200th career home run (30th of the season) during Houston’s rally.
Wyatt Langford blasted a home run to start a four-run eighth inning and help the Texas Rangers beat the Houston Astros 7-3.
1 month agoWyatt Langford and Jake Burger homered in a four-run eighth inning as the Texas Rangers beat the Houston Astros 7-3 on Friday night. Langford’s leadoff homer and Burger’s three-run shot came off Bryan King (2-2) after the Astros had rallied from an early 3-0 deficit to tie the score in the seventh inning. Houston’s rally included Yordan Alvarez’s 200th career home run, his 30th of the season.
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