Arizona 6, Texas 0
When: 9:40 PM ET, Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Where: Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Phil Cuzzi, 1B -
Tony Randazzo, 2B -
Alex Tosi, 3B -
Jonathan Parra
Attendance:
25499
By Field Level Media
Christian Walker belted two homers and Joc Pederson hit one as the Arizona Diamondbacks notched a 6-0 victory over the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night in Phoenix.
Pavin Smith and Jose Herrera added RBI doubles for Arizona (81-64), which remained a half-game behind the San Diego Padres for the National League's top wild-card spot and moved within five games of the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West.
Walker had three RBIs for Arizona, which has won two straight games after losing eight of its previous 12.
Zac Gallen (12-6) allowed two hits in five scoreless innings for the Diamondbacks. He struck out seven and walked two.
Arizona's Kevin Ginkel gave up a hit and issued a walk in the sixth, Ryan Thompson pitched a flawless seventh, A.J. Puk struck out the side in a perfect eighth and Justin Martinez struck out two in a 1-2-3 ninth.
Wyatt Langford had two of the Rangers' three hits. Langford also stole two bases.
Texas (70-75) lost for just the fourth time in its past 14 contests. The Rangers are seven games behind the Twins for the American League's third wild-card berth, and their playoff hopes are getting slimmer with four other teams residing between them and Minnesota in the standings.
Rangers starter Nathan Eovaldi (11-8) allowed four runs and seven hits over five innings. He struck out six and walked one.
Pederson and Walker hit back-to-back homers off Eovaldi in the first inning for Arizona.
Pederson ripped a 2-1 cutter over the pool in right-center for his 22nd home run of the season. Walker followed by taking an 0-1 fastball the opposite way to clear the right field wall.
In the third inning, Pederson walked with one out and Walker again went the opposite way, hitting a 2-1 slider over the wall in right to make it 4-0. It was his 25th homer of the season.
Arizona added another run in the eighth when Jake McCarthy led off with a bunt single and Smith followed with an RBI double into the right field corner. The hot-hitting Smith established single-game career bests of three homers and eight RBIs in the Diamondbacks' previous game against the Houston Astros on Sunday.
Two outs later, Herrera drilled a ground-rule double over the wall in right-center to score Smith from third.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Hitting
| Texas |
|
Arizona |
|
Wyatt Langford
| Player |
Christian Walker |
|
2 |
Hits |
2 |
|
0 |
RBI |
3 |
|
0 |
HR |
2 |
|
2 |
TB |
8 |
|
.500 |
Avg |
.500 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Texas
|
3 |
0 |
3 |
.100 |
11 |
13 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
| Arizona
|
10 |
3 |
22 |
.294 |
14 |
9 |
6 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
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