Rangers Can't Find Enough Offense in 4-3 Loss to Astros

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Just 24 hours after striking for eight runs in the first inning, it looked like the Texas Rangers were setting up for a big opening frame once again in Wednesday night’s game against the Houston Astros.

Unfortunately for Texas, they struck for just one in the first and didn’t generate many scoring chances the rest of the night, falling to Houston 4-3 at Globe Life Field.

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Wednesday night marks the Rangers' 10th one-run loss of the season, the fourth most in the American League.

Coming into play on Wednesday, the Rangers were 19-4 when scoring first, but were just unable to add on in the middle innings once again.

“Once again, I thought the first inning we had a real chance to put up a crooked number,” Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said after the game.

“We had guys on base, and we got one run. I felt like we could have scored multiple runs there and put the pressure on even more. Through those middle innings, we just couldn’t get anything going, a lot of ground balls and weak contact,” Schumaker said.

In addition to their offensive struggles, the Rangers had a hard time handling Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez.

Alvarez took Texas starter Jacob deGrom deep in the fourth and then delivered a big blow in the eighth, hitting a home run off Tyler Alexander on a 3-0 slider.

“Alvarez is on a heater right now,” Schumaker said. “We wanted to pitch him inside to kind of back him off a little bit. We did that with balls, and then we threw a 3-0 slider that wasn’t a terrible pitch, but a 3-0 slider, we didn’t want him to beat us, and if we walked him, we walked him, that was the message.”

Despite allowing the early home run to Alvarez, deGrom put forth a quality start, going six innings and allowing just two runs, but spotlighted the two leads that the Rangers had early in the game.

“Even tonight, we got the lead twice, and I gave it up,” deGrom said after the game. “I gotta do better at having shutdown innings when we score."

Joc Pederson kept the Rangers in the game with a left-on-left home run in the eighth inning, marking his second of the game.

Still, it was too little, too late, as Texas once again couldn’t find enough offense to pull out a victory, falling to 25-30 on the season.

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