Arizona Diamondbacks at Texas Rangers

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Arizona Diamondbacks

58-62, 28-32 Away

Final
3 - 2

Texas Rangers

61-60, 37-25 Home

Ketel Marte's 9th-inning homer gives D-backs 3-2 win over Rangers

Diamondbacks strike late to edge Rangers

Marte’s homer off Danny Coulombe (2-1) followed consecutive strikeouts of Jose Herrera and Geraldo Perdomo. Perdomo’s was the fifth looking for Arizona among 11 strikeouts, after which manager Torey Lovullo protested and was ejected by home plate umpire Nate Tomlinson.

Jalen Beeks (3-1) pitched 1 2/3 hitless innings followed in the ninth by rookie Juan Morillo, who earned his first big-league save.

Marte also drove in the seventh-inning run that tied the score 2-2 following two Rangers infield errors.

The Diamondbacks, 6 1/2 games out of the NL wild-card race, have won four of their last five games.

Arizona’s five most recent saves starting July 20 have come from five different pitchers.

The Rangers, who won Monday night’s series opener, are 6 1/2 games out of first place in the AL West and 3 1/2 games out of the league’s last wild-card spot.

The Rangers, held to four hits, led 2-1 after three innings on sacrifice flies by Adolis García and Marcus Semien.

Texas starter Jack Leiter allowed four hits in five innings, one of them being Blaze Alexander’s solo home run in the third.

Diamondbacks starter Anthony DeSclafani allowed both runs in three innings in his fourth start of the season in 11 appearances after being signed in mid-June.

Key moment Arizona’s seventh inning, aided by Texas pitcher Robert Garcia’s throwing error and third baseman Josh Jung’s fielding error.

Key stat The Rangers were 0 for 9 with runners in scoring position and left seven runners on base.

Up next Wednesday afternoon’s series finale will match Rangers RHP Merrill Kelly (9-7, 3.38 ERA), who was acquired from Arizona on July 31, against Diamondbacks RHP Zac Gallen (9-12, 5.31).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Higashioka grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Jung grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	A. García lined out to second.
	9th Inning	Morillo relieved Beeks
	9th Inning	Carroll grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Marte homered to left (445 feet).

Statistics

ARI		$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
10	Ground Balls	12
11	Strikeouts	6
3	Runs Batted In	2
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	4
2	Stolen Bases	2
2	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	2
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	1
35	At Bats	31
2	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
20	Runners Left On Base	17
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	1
15	Fly Balls	14
0	Caught Stealing	0
158	Pitches	147
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
16	Total Bases	5
39	Plate Appearances	36
324.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
4	Extra Base Hits	1
5.2	Runs Created	1.3
.229	Batting Average	.129
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.457	Slugging Percentage	.161
.343	Secondary Average	.226
.289	On Base Percentage	.222
.747	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.384
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
5.0	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.3
32.0	Batter Rating	16.0
17.5	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.05	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.08
.229	Isolated Power	.032
0.18	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.67
.051	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.111
.114	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.097
6.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.3
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
81.0	MLB Rating	65.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0