Brandon Nimmo has 4 hits and 5 RBIs as Rangers beat A’s 8-5

ARLINGTON, Texas — Brandon Nimmo acceptable play highs with 4 hits and 5 RBIs, Corey Seager scored 3 times and the Texas Rangers bushed the Athletics 8-5 connected Tuesday night.

Texas pulled wrong 1 crippled of Houston atop the AL West. The first-place Astros mislaid 5-1 to the Chicago White Sox successful a matchup of part leaders.

Seager doubled doubly and scored connected Nimmo’s archetypal 3 RBI hits, including a bouncing two-run azygous successful the 5th inning. Seager had the 2nd of 2 sacrifice flies successful the sixth.

Jeff McNeil deed a two-run homer successful the ninth for the Athletics, who mislaid their 5th consecutive crippled and person 4 losing streaks astatine slightest that agelong successful the past 2 months. That agelong includes skids of 10 and 9 games.

MacKenzie Gore (8-10) pitched astir 5 singles and 4 walks, allowing 1 tally successful 5 1/3 innings.

Jacob Latz struck retired some batters helium faced for his 28th prevention successful 31 chances aft the A’s turned an 8-1 shortage done six innings into a prevention concern for Texas.

The Athletics had 11 hits, 7 walks and 2 deed batters but near the bases loaded doubly and stranded 14 runners.

Brady Basso (0-2) was replaced aft Seager’s 2nd treble with 1 retired successful the 3rd inning. The left-hander allowed 4 hits and 2 runs.

Ezequiel Duran saved a tally with Texas starring 2-1 successful the fourth. The 2nd baseman made a spectacular diving halt connected a one-hopper and bushed speedy leadoff antheral Henry Bolte with a speedy propulsion to first.

Athletics archetypal baseman Tommy White exited with debased backmost soreness aft taking his archetypal plaything of the crippled starring disconnected the second.

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A 2nd consecutive brace of lefty starters is acceptable arsenic Texas goes for the bid expanse Wednesday. Jacob Lopez (5-4, 4.62 ERA) is scheduled for the Athletics against Cody Bradford (0-3, 3.42).