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Diamondbacks win two of three vs. Rangers behind Ketel Marte’s late heroics, staying within reach of the playoff hunt.
The Rangers, held to four hits, led 2-1 after three innings on sacrifice flies by Adolis García and Marcus Semien.
Jake Burger hit a pinch-hit RBI single in the 10th inning and the Texas Rangers ended their four-game losing streak with a 7-6 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The Texas Rangers finished a six-game week against the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Toronto Blue Jays with a 2-4 record, three late-game meltdowns, two position players injured and one big bad blowout loss.
The Diamondbacks crushed the previously impenetrable Nathan Eovaldi at the Rangers and took a 5-0 lead, but Texas came back.
James McCann and Ketel Marte homered with two outs in a four-run ninth inning for Arizona to beat the Texas Rangers 6-4 on Wednesday in a game that began with the Diamondbacks facing former teammate Merrill Kelly.
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Rangers fall back to .500 after Phil Maton’s ninth-inning meltdown costs them vs. Diamondbacks
Texas Rangers right-hander Phil Maton struck out the first three Arizona Diamondbacks batters he faced on nine combined pitches Wednesday afternoon. It doesn’t register as an immaculate inning, though,
A day after his go-ahead, ninth-inning homer from the right side of the plate, Ketel Marte did the same from the left side in a Diamondbacks win.
PITCHING PROBABLES: Diamondbacks: Zac Gallen (9-12, 5.31 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 130 strikeouts); Rangers: Merrill Kelly (9-7, 3.37 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 131 strikeouts)
First baseman Jake Burger, who had a 1.097 OPS in August, was placed on the IL on Monday with a sprained left wrist. It is Burger’s third trip to the IL this season. The Rangers recalled outfielder Alejandro Osuna from Triple-A Round Rock to replace Burger.