If the Texas Rangers are to handle a cut up of their four-game sequence in Kansas Metropolis, Patrick Corbin doubtless should finish his latest struggles.
Following a much-needed victory, the Rangers will goal for his or her first two-game profitable streak in additional than two weeks as they face former teammate Michael Lorenzen on Thursday.
Whereas each groups are exterior of the American League wild-card positions, Kansas Metropolis is simply 2 1/2 video games behind of the ultimate spot, with Texas 2 1/2 again of the Royals. Nevertheless, the Rangers ought to have momentum after they rallied to snap Kansas Metropolis’s five-game profitable streak with 6-3 win on Wednesday.
Down 3-1 after one inning, Texas chipped away and Corey Seager delivered a tying RBI single within the seventh. Kyle Higashioka broke the impasse with a two-out, three-run double within the ninth.
The Rangers are 3-10 since profitable consecutive video games Aug. 4-5.
“At this level, it is type of win or go house,” Higashioka informed the Rangers Sports activities Community. “Undoubtedly, our backs are in opposition to the wall. It is type of a season make-or-break second. We’d like each win we will get.”
It has been a tough go of late for Corbin (6-9, 4.45 ERA), who’s 0-2 with a 12.10 ERA in three August begins. On Saturday at Toronto, the left-hander yielded seven runs, eight hits and two walks whereas dealing with simply 15 batters over 2 1/3 innings.
Corbin has not accomplished greater than 4 1/3 innings in any of his previous three begins, and his most up-to-date high quality begin got here on July 5.
“I am simply not pitching deep into video games proper now and type of sticking to my strengths and going after guys — how I’ve carried out earlier this 12 months,” Corbin informed the Rangers’ official web site.
“I am annoyed about that. Simply (should) look again and attempt to discover a technique to get higher.”
Corbin additionally hopes to be higher than he was versus Kansas Metropolis on June 18, when he allowed 4 runs, two walks and 6 hits over 5 innings of Texas’ 6-3 house loss. Three of these runs got here by way of a Maikel Garcia homer.
Kansas Metropolis’s Vinnie Pasquantino is 0-for-6 versus Corbin. Nevertheless, he has homered in all three video games of the present sequence. He’s batting .306 (11-for-36) with six house runs and 17 RBIs in his previous 10 video games for the Royals, who’re 7-2 on their 10-game homestand.
“He needs to be higher in the whole lot,” Kansas Metropolis supervisor Matt Quatraro mentioned of Pasquantino. “On the finish of the day, he is an above-average main league hitter in the course of an order of a profitable group.”
Acquired from Texas on the 2024 commerce deadline, Lorenzen (5-8, 4.43 ERA) will look to construct on a stable return from lacking greater than a month as a result of an indirect pressure. On Saturday, the veteran right-hander got here off the injured record and yielded three hits and two walks over 4 scoreless innings in the course of the Royals’ 6-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
Lorenzen, who has not allowed a run over 11 innings spanning his previous two begins, is ready to face his former group for the primary time since 2022. He has no selections with a 3.86 ERA in three profession video games (one begin) vs. the Rangers.
Texas’ Marcus Semien is 3-for-4 versus Lorenzen, and he recorded his second three-hit sport prior to now 4 contests on Wednesday. Seager, in the meantime, is 7-for-16 with two doubles and two homers prior to now 4 contests.
–Discipline Stage Media
