Dane Dunning threw five scoreless innings and Corey Seager drove in a pair to help lead the Texas Rangers to a 6-1 win over the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday.
Dunning (4-3) allowed just three hits while striking out six and walking four in guiding Texas to its third straight win.
Corbin Carroll went 3-for-5 with an RBI for Arizona, which dropped its third consecutive game.
Wyatt Langford led off the bottom of the third with a single ahead of Jonah Heim’s RBI double to give Texas the 1-0 lead.
Adolis Garica led off the fourth with a walk. Leody Tavares then singled before Nathaniel Lowe grounded into a double play, scoring Garcia for the second Texas run.
Texas doubled its lead in the home half of the fifth when Seager launched his 13th home run of the season, a two-run shot to give the Rangers a 4-0 advantage.
In relief of Dunning, Jose Leclerc retired the side in the top of the sixth. Jesus Tinoco followed with a scoreless top of the seventh for the Rangers.
Diamondbacks starter Ryne Nelson (3-4) pitched six innings of five-hit, four-run ball. The third-year starter also walked and struck out three apiece.
Tinoco retired Pederson and Walker to begin the eighth but was pulled for David Roberston after Gurriel’s two-out single. Jake McCarthy greeted Robertson with a single before the 39-year-old reliever struck out pinch-hitter Pavin Smith to end the threat.
In the top of the ninth, Logan Allen retired Seager before issuing a single to Josh Smith and consecutive walks to Garcia and Tavares. Lowe then drove in Smith on a sacrifice fly, extending the Rangers’ lead to 5-0. After Allen was pulled for Justin Martinez, Langford capped the Texas scoring with a run-scoring single to drive in Garcia for the Rangers’ sixth run.
Arizona cracked the run column in the top of the ninth on Carroll’s run-scoring single off Jacob Latz. Kirby Yates came in to retire Walker for the final out of the game.
–Field Level Media