First in Batting Average, On Base Percentage Runs, Scored and Slugging Percentage the 38-27 Texas Rangers dismantled the 27-37 Houston Astros 6-2 in Arlington on Friday. Texas spotted Houston a 1-0 lead and then wrote in five runs during the fifth inning to capture momentum and the opener. Jed Lowrie's RBI-single scoring Jose Altuve got the Astros on the scoreboard first during the top of the third.
Adrian Beltre, David Murphy, Yorvit Torrealba and Michael Young RBI-singles put in five runs during the bottom of the fifth. Justin Maxwell's home run for Houston restored belief for the visitors who had two costly errors to begin the Rangers' ridiculous fifth inning. Texas' Mitch Moreland's bottom-of-the-eighth HR put the Astros behind by four runs again.
The Rangers' Justin Grimm, a 13th round, 414th pick, by the Boston Red Sox in the 2007 Major League Baseball draft, makes his MLB debut Saturday. The former Georgia college star was born in Bristol, Tennessee and is 24. Grimm's first taste of the Majors is with Houston, a team 9-23 on the road, and 16th in RS.
With 6-4 Lucas Harrell and a 4.83 ERA running to the mound for the Astros, Houston better score plenty of runs if they want to win. On May 19 at Minute Maid Park the Astros edged Texas 6-5 despite Harrell conceding four runs, one earned, during 5.2 innings. In away games Harrell is 2-4 letting in 29 runs, 27 earned, during 36.1 innings of four decisions. The 32-32 Miami Marlins and 38-24 Washington Nationals beat Houston by a run in Harrell's first two road outings, no-decisions, in part to dancing in five runs during 10.2 innings. The Over looks rather promising with the Rangers 6-for-22 with five RBIs earlier this year on Harrell whose last three starts have seen 20, 17 and 18 runs come home.
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