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The Rangers and Royals appear to rebound after dropping two out of three games at home to the team in the last place. Texas played against the Washington Nationals and Kansas City played against Oakland Athletics.
The Rangers will begin a 9-game trip in a 3-game series in Kansas City on Monday night. Texas will then face the National League East's leading New York Mets before playing against the Orioles in Baltimore.
The Royals, who lost three out of four after winning five out of six, lost to Auckland for two consecutive runs after winning the series opener 3-1 on Friday. rice field.
"I had two chances in a row here ... two of them," said Royals manager Mike Matheny. "They feel like games we need to leave, but they weren't."
April 19-21, 2 out of 3 contests with the Minnesota Twins The Royals, who haven't won the series at home since winning one, have wasted a chance to win one on Sunday.
Nicky Lopez leads the Royals in a triple to the left, with Whit Merrifield grounding out, followed by Andrew Benintendi and Bobby Witt Jr., dragging 2-0 in 6th place. Loaded. Carlos Santana gave Kansas City a 3-2 lead with a two-run single before Edward Olivares scored a run score four pitches later.
However, A took a good lead at the next at bat. After scoring two outs with a Chad Pinder single and a Cristian Pache double, Nick Allen cleared the base from the single to the center, giving Auckland a 4-3 lead.
The Rangers, who defeated the Nationals in the National League East cellar 3-2 on Saturday after losing 2-1 on Friday, were in each of the first two innings. I gave up 3 runs. There will be no recovery with a loss of 6-4 on Sunday.
Texas won only one hit in a series of three games with scoring runners and 20 at bats.
"We have to do a better job to create pressure," said Rangers manager Chris Woodward. "We're not getting enough traffic there. We've experienced this before. We need to be a little more disciplined in the zone and don't have to swing on every strike."
Texas turns to left-handed Martin Perez (5-2, 1.96 ERA). Martin Perez goes out of two stars. He defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 7-0 on Tuesday, hitting 6 hits in 6 innings and achieving 6 strikeouts and 3 walks. He defeated the Detroit Tigers 3-1 on June 16th, allowed a run with eight hits, walked nothing and hit five.
Perez was 4-1 and allowed 4.43 ERA (all starts) in 11 appearances to the Royals in 61 innings but eight home runs in his career.
The Royals will face left-handed Kris Bubic (1-4, 7.41) on Monday. Kris Bubic won his first victory of the season on his recent expedition. He defeated the Los Angeles Angels 6-2 last Monday, bringing two runs with six hits, seven strikeouts and two walks with six innings.
Bubic played against the Rangers twice in his career as a relief. He was allowed four runs with four hits on two strikeouts and two walks on the 12/3 inning.
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