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Major League Baseball
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

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
Starting Pitchers
Texas   Arizona
Nathan Eovaldi Player Zac Gallen
Loss W/L Win
5.0 IP 5.0
6 Strikeouts 7
7 Hits 2
7.20 ERA 0.00
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