Rangers Shutout Guardians and Take Series

Unfortunately this will be a short one, since there isn’t much that needs recapped.

The Texas Rangers shut out the Cleveland Guardians in today’s rubber match. The Guardians scored no runs on 6 hits and no errors while the Rangers massively outscored Cleveland with 10 runs on 16 hits with no errors. Chase DeLauter, Angel Martínez, David Fry (PH for Steven Kwan), and Patrick Bailey all recorded single hits while Steven Kwan had a two-hit game. Travis Bazzana and Brayan Rocchio reached on walks.

Joey Cantillo fell to 4-3 on the season after giving up 7 runs on 9 hit sand 2 walks. In his 5.0 innings of work, Cantillo struck out 7 batters on 97 pitches. Will Dion threw 2.0 innings, allowing 1 run, 3 hits, and 1 walk. Austin Hedges came on in the eighth, saving the bullpen for tomorrow’s Yankees series, and gave up 2 runs on 4 hits.

Home runs were the bane of today with the Rangers hitting 3 off of Joey and 1 off of Dion.

The Guardians start a three game series against the New York Yankees at home tomorrow. First pitch is at 6:40PM EDT.