ARLINGTON — The Rangers entered Sunday afternoon’s series finale against the Guardians 0-for-27 when trailing after seven innings.
It’s an almost astonishing stat when considering Texas has boasted one of the best offenses in baseball with the best run differential in the American League through the first half of the season. The hits were bound to fall eventually.
And they did on Sunday.
Texas was trailing from the very first batter against Cleveland after Steven Kwan launched a leadoff homer against Martín Pérez to open the game, but the Rangers offense kept chipping away before roaring back for a four-run eighth inning to beat the Guardians, 6-5, and complete a sweep to kick off the second half.
The rally started with back-to-back one-out walks from Corey Seager and Marcus Semien before three straight RBI hits from Nathaniel Lowe, Adolis García and Josh Jung gave the Rangers a one-run lead going into the ninth inning.
Jung, Texas’ rookie third baseman, was 1-for-his-last-12 in the series before knocking in the go-ahead run with a two-run single to cap off the rally.
