Rangers beat Orioles 5-3 to dodge 3-game sweep

The lead would run to 4-0 later in the inning when Schoop misplayed a soft pop up by Beltran.

As post-trade debuts go, Wade Miley’s first start with the Baltimore Orioles wasn’t a rousing success.

REDS 7, CARDINALS 0: In Cincinnati, Brandon Phillips had three hits and left-hander Brandon Finnegan allowed one hit in six innings as Cincinnati earned a rare series win over St. Louis. “But after I walked it off a little bit it kind of released and it really hasn’t bothered me since”, Miley said. “I had some jitters”.

“I didn’t have very good command at all”.

The line drive that hit Miley’s leg was turned into an out, thanks to a favorable rebound.

Hyun Soo Kim led off the sixth with his fourth run, his first at home, and it was 4-3.

Baltimore could not come all the way back, but manager Buck Showalter still liked how his pitchers fared in the series. “Every time you go out there, you’ve got to mix it up”.

C Jonathan Lucroy got Friday night off in deference to the hectic schedule Lucroy has faced after his acquisition from the Brewers on Monday at the non-waiver trade deadline. Lucroy homered in the second inning, Carlos Beltran singled in a run in the fifth and Jeremy Jeffress pitched a scoreless seventh. On the other, the Rangers squared up plenty of those strikes, connecting for four doubles and a homer among the eight hits they collected off Baltimore’s newest starter. We were able to pull that one out tonight.

It sure didn’t take long for new players on the Texas Rangers to get comfortable in a different environment.

Texas won the season series 4-3 and would have home-field advantage in the postseason if the teams finish with the same regular-season record and meet in the playoffs.

Trumbo leads the major leagues with 31 homers.

However, the ball rolled towards Davis in such a way that Choo, the runner on first, seemed to screen Davis from seeing the ball and Davis whiffed on his attempt to field the ball.

Consecutive doubles by Adrian Beltre and Roughned Odor off Logan Ondrusek made it 5-3 in the eighth.

RHP A.J. Griffin stuck with his slow and off-speed stuff, something that has given the Orioles problems all year long.

The Rangers finished with 11 hits, seven of which went for extra bases, including a season-high six doubles, and created numerous offensive chances despite finishing 3-for-16 with runners in scoring position.

BALTIMORE-Wade Miley’s Orioles debut ended in some pain.

Indians 9, Twins 2: Carlos Santana hit a three-run homer, Francisco Lindor added a two-run shot and Cleveland salvaged the finale of a four-game series with Minnesota.

RF Shin-Soo Choo (lower back inflammation) returned from his third stint on the disabled list Thursday night.

LHP Dario Alvarez was optioned to Triple-A Round Rock to make room for RF Shin-Soo Choo, who came off the disabled list.

Rangers: Martin Perez (7-7, 4.22 ERA) starts for Texas on Friday night in the opener of a three-game series in Houston.

Wilson, who was designated for assignment by the Rangers on August 1, is batting.