The Texas Rangers left to a harsh beginning Thursday in their Opening Day match versus the Boston Red Sox.
ARLINGTON, Texas– Wilyer Abreu struck a three-run shot in the 9th inning for his 2nd homer of the opener, powering the Boston Red Sox past the Texas Rangers 5-2 on Thursday.
Abreu influenced every run for Boston. He singled and racked up on a fielder’s selection ground ball in the 3rd. He homered in the 5th off Nathan Eovaldi and his game-winner was a 394-foot lining to right-center off brand-new Rangers reducer Luke Jackson.
Aroldis Chapman pitched a scoreless eighth in his Red Sox launching for the win. Justin Slaten waited with a best 9th.
Garrett Crochet started out 4, strolled 2 and quit 2 runs in 5 innings in his Red Sox launching. The 25-year-old was their youngest left-handed starter on opening up day because Infant Ruth in 1918. Crochet began the opener in 2015 for the White Sox, that traded him to Boston in December.
Eovaldi started out 9 without a stroll, and enabled 2 runs in 6 innings. It was his 2nd opening-day beginning straight for Texas after beginning 3 Boston openers from 2020-22.
Kevin Column, beginning his 13th major league period with his 10th group, had an RBI solitary in his very first at-bat for Texas in the 2nd. He had a two-out solitary and racked up on Kyle Higashioka’s dual for a 2-1 lead in the 4th.
Kristian Campbell, the 22-year-old Red Sox 2nd baseman that made his major league launching, obtained his very first appeal a sharp one-hopper right prior to Abreu’s 2nd homer.
Eovaldi’s 9 strikeouts matched one of the most by a Texas bottle on opening up day. The very first 5 came when Red Sox batters turned and missed out on 76-78 miles per hour curveballs.
Tanner Houck, an All-Star last period, begins for Boston in a competition of first-round draft choices Friday evening. Jack Leiter is readied to go with the Rangers.
