A's vs. Rangers Game Highlights (8/30/24) | MLB Highlights

But for now, the Rangers have their attention focused on the Oakland athletics. The A's 58 and 76 don't be fooled. They're playing some pretty good baseball. The season numbers for grayed up a little bit last time out versus the Guardians. He will look to rebound here tonight. Either way he had a spectacular start to the season. He'll look to get back to form against Lawrence Butler, a red hot hitter and he chops one to second base routine play for Kim and Gray needs just one pitch to get that first big john Gray works out of the stretch from the first base side of the rubber. A swing and a smash deep left field back is Lankford at the wall. It's number 32 for brett Rooker off the facade of the second deck. Bob's away early in Arlington and the A's ahead one to nothing. A no Doubter from Rooker as he jumps on john Gray in this opening in and a swing and a foul tip that's caught by Kelly and B is out on strikes. Here's a swing and a ball hit into the air. Center field. Frozen is Leody Taveras. He hasn't moved yet. Now, he takes two steps to his left and puts it away for the final out in the inning. JP Sears taking the ball 27th time. JP Sears has started the baseball game for the athletics this year. That's a leader in the clubhouse. So if Marcus looking to pull the trigger, he was ready to swing, I think, but that wasn't close and Sears never did find the strike zone. So Marcus goes to first base, Robbie Grossman, the designated hitter switch hitter placed on the waiver wire along with Travis Jankowski. Probably not going to make the postseason run for the Rangers. A grounder to Jacob wilson time to flip it over to second, get the out there safe at first Grossman will replace Marcus Simon on the fielder's choice, the payoff pitch from Sears and this is in the air, first base side foul territory and brownie will grab it and that brings up a garcia, a full count with two out, 32 pitch high fly ball to right. It's going to stay in the ballpark as Butler back pedals a few steps. Law is there to make the catch and the Rangers are done in the first inning. We go to the bottom of the second inning. The A's are leading one. JP Sears facing Nathaniel Lowe, 22 Lowe swing and a drive up the alley left center field going after it is at the wall. It's out of here and a solo shot and we're tied at one. Well, he got a fastball that was up that time and toward the outside part of the plate just hitting it where it was pitched and he drives it out of here. That is a textbook left on left approach going deep for Nathaniel Lowe's Carson Kelly getting the start right handed bat. This one smashed down to third and that gets past and into left field. Carson Kelly heading to second and he has a one out double 101 miles an hour off the bat for Carson Kelly just continuing to have productive at bats since coming over to the Rangers at the deadline on the ground to Schuman. He'll field this one cleanly and across the diamond, it will go as we go to the third. It's a 11 side. Jacob wilson, the hitter with a one out nobody on wilson two for his first seven in the big leagues. Great delivers on the pitch misses Lowe. He lost him with a slider ball forward so he loses Wilson a one out walk. The right hander delivers the pitch that misses Lowe, he lost him another slider. So Rooker walks and that'll give JJ Blat a chance here in this third inning 1st and 2nd and that may not be the worst thing in the world. Rooker is a guy who can do significant damage. Maybe the ideas go after blat as the one opiate swung on drive to right field, going back for it as Garcia still go back near the track at the wall and it is gone a three run homer for J JB blat and the A lead it 4 to 1. It just did get over that right wall and for blade, that is number 20. And as it snuck out, john crouched down on the mound with one of those expressions, like no way you got to be kidding, 22. And he hits that ball hard out to the alley, left center field and that's going to be at least another double for Robbie Grossman. So he continues that dominance. JP Sears but Robbie got a 22 fastball able to drill it up the alley there in left center continuing to do what he's done all season long. Provide some offense here against left handed pitching, Josh Young with a runner in scoring position. He'll swing at the first pitch chopper over to third and another long throw that Seth brown handles. Well, two outs. Grossman had to stay at second. That brings up a Garcia that's a fly ball to right center going back is the near the track. So is butler and butler at the wall makes the catch as he bangs into the 374 sign and the inning is over. Zack struck out swinging in the second inning zero for one. The only strikeout victim for john Gray in this game tonight. And he strikes out right here, second time tonight, 21. And what's interesting about is at bat and just that pitch right there. And kind of similarly his first at bat when he misses, he misses big. It doesn't look like he's on, it looks like he's missing by a few inches in the pitch. Got him swinging fourth strikeout of the evening for john Gray and a perfect half of the fourth inning. That will be all for john Gray here tonight. So with a runner at second, two men out Rangers trailing 4 to 1 and Walt Pennington coming in here for the Rangers, two men out a runner at second. He takes on the left handed hitting JJ blat and there's a swing and a miss. So Pennington comes right in and takes care of easily in the inning for JP. It's the matter of efficiency. We've had 10 pitch inning, 11 pitch inning and I think that is what gives you the opportunity to get deeper into the ball game. Two outs. Robbie Grossman now will stand in the left his pitch and a back door sweeper gets Grossman looking a 123 inning for the first time today for the A's JP Sears. He picks up his second strikeout of the night. Anderson, the new pitcher for the Rangers Rangers trailing 4 to 1 top of the sixth inning. Dads Cameron, the batter with runners at 1st and 2nd and nobody out two and he strikes out swinging. So that worked out well for Grant Anderson Wangs at second Brown at first. That's in the air though. Chart right field and Garcia takes care of it two away. And now see if the A's can get a two out, pick me up from Max Schuman. Here's a 32 and that's a beauty strike. Three called, man. You couldn't place it a whole lot better than that. And Grant anderson with a huge strikeout gives the Rangers a shot now so quickly two outs in the seventh as Ranger pitchers have retired five straight and that will bring up Frent Rooker , the designated hitter as the 32 pitch is swung on fly ball to left fielder. Well, going back as Langford at the wall Rooker has done it again. Another home run for Rooker number 33 and the a lead 5 to 1 his second homer of the night and the have a four run lead the one of the seventh and that will bring up the centerfield leon to be two to swing and a miss strike out of work got him in the high heat upstairs. You can really see JP get out there and finish out in front. Really ripped that four seamer. The pitch that's bounced toward the shortstop. Jacob Wilson will scoop it up a long way to first in time. Great seven innings of work for JP Sears. Two men out Jankowski still at second Rangers trailing 5 to 1. And here's Nathaniel Lowe who hit that opposite field home run back in the second inning, a little bouncer, first base side , that's going to be a tough play and the throw goes over the top of Oana head. That's where the Rangers will score a run. Good heads up baserunning by Jankowski to get all the way in from second and it's 5 to 21 two. Look out, hit him right off his front shoulder as a sinker didn't sink. And that got the shoulder blade on the back for Schuman. He'll be making his way up to first base. The 20, with the runner going, it's outside throw to second base by Kelly. Not in time, a head long slide by Schuman and he's in safely with a bases 12th of the year. Now, Butler bats, he swings and wraps it down the right field line in the corner, fair ball. He's going to short hop the wall. It's a nine game hitting streak for Butler. He'll stride in a second base with an RB I double. Schuman is home and the A get some insurance to lift the advantage to 62 JJ A towards right field. It's going to hit the gap but it'll be extra bases for JJ with another run coming in at another double for JJ A four RB I day for JJ. Here comes langeliers. He's one for four. The A now seven runs on nine hits and with a loud noise, did he get a homer in Texas? No doubt blast. That's 23 for 92 lead. And here's Marcus Simian Rangers down to their final out what pitch grounded right back up. The middle off glove picked up by gloss it across the first in time and this game is over, athletics poured on at the end and they win the opener of this series against Texas by the final of 9 to 2.