The Texas Rangers scored three runs but the New York Mets scored six runs.
The Rangers had ample opportunity to hold or enhance their fate tonight against a team that was seven games worse than them, but instead decided to play a pretty bad game of baseball all the way around.
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In true past like 35 months fashion, the bats wasted chance after chance early and ended up going just 1-for-8 with RISP. Twice the Rangers had multiple runners on base — including a dreaded bases loaded chance — only to fly out with a Mets outfielder’s ass scraping the wall.
Still, they did manage to score three runs but that certainly wasn’t good enough. Not when they also allowed several runs to score via palpable defensive miscues as the ball seemed to find the guys the Rangers were hoping to hide out in the field.
As for the pitching, MacKenzie Gore gritted through five innings of one-run ball with whatever muscle ailment is still nagging him but left after throwing just 77 pitches. Skip Schumaker decided to try to get another heroic relief outing out of Nathan Eovaldi to start the top of the sixth with the Rangers up 3-2 but unfortunately Eovaldi didn’t have it.
Before Schumaker realized that fact, and after more questionable moments with the gloves, it was 5-3 Mets. Rather than Texas taking that as a challenge, they did not even have a hit after the first batter of the fourth inning as the Mets added one more insurance run in the seventh for the game’s final tally.
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Manaea, who hadn’t completed six innings in a start in month, and had only allowed fewer than three runs in a start just once since the beginning of August, eventually finished allowing just two earned runs (three runs total) in six innings while striking out nine Rangers.
One of these teams looked like they had something still to play for tonight but it wasn’t the one that came into the night ahead in the American League West and the one that is now also below .500 again.
Player of the Game: Skip Schumaker does everything he can to let you know he’s managing every Rangers baseball game so I see you Skip. It’s cool, man. We know you’re the manager.
Up Next: The Rangers will try to get back to .500 with with whichever pitcher with an arm hanging on by a thread that they haven’t announced yet to start against RHP Nolan McLean for New York.
The Wednesday evening first pitch from The Shed is scheduled for 7:05 pm CDT and you can check it out on the Rangers Sports Network.
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