The Rangers built a four-run lead against Wade Miley, who was making his Orioles debut after pitching against Texas three times with Seattle this season. Texas' first five hits all went for extra bases, including Jonathan Lucroy's first homer with the Rangers. Nine Texas hitters recorded a hit, and seven of them had at least one extra-base hit.
Miley allowed four runs in five innings, falling to 0-3 with a 7.36 ERA against the Rangers this year.
Rangers righty A.J. Griffin cruised through four scoreless innings, but the Orioles belted three solo shots off him in the next two frames to trim the deficit to a run. Though Griffin couldn't complete six innings for the ninth straight start, Texas' bullpen came on to shut out the Orioles over the final 3 ⅓ innings.
Jeremy Jeffress, who came over from the Brewers with Lucroy, threw a scoreless seventh inning in his Rangers debut. Sam Dyson picked up his 23rd save.
MOMENTS THAT MATTERED
Extra, extra: The Rangers' offense was held to just three runs on two extra-base hits over the first two games of the series, but the lineup came alive in the series finale. In his return to the starting lineup, Shin-Soo Choo set the tone with a leadoff double -- the first of six Rangers doubles. Texas entered the day just 25th in the Majors with 163 doubles on the season.
First for Lucroy: A night after Carlos Beltran hit his first homer with the Rangers, Lucroy left the yard in his third game with Texas. The newly acquired catcher hammered a 2-2 slider over the fence in left field in his first at-bat to give the Rangers a 1-0 lead. According to Statcast™, the homer left the bat at 106 mph and traveled an estimated 409 feet. It marked Lucroy's 14th home run this season, just the second time in his seven-year career he's reached that mark.
Tough plays prove costly: With one out in the sixth, Ian Desmond hit a soft grounder toward first base that Chris Davis could not handle because the ball was shielded by Choo, who had just singled. This allowed Delino DeShields to score from second. One batter later, Beltran hit a blooper to shallow right that just bounced out of the glove of tracking second baseman Jonathan Schoop, allowing Choo to score the Rangers' fourth run. That tough inning also ended Miley's uneven performance.
Digging the long ball: After Mark Trumbo regained the Major League lead with his 31st homer, Pedro Alvarez followed with another towering solo shot that pulled Baltimore to within 4-2 in the fifth. It was 12th time, and second in this series, the Orioles hit back-to-back homers -- the most in the AL. An inning later, Hyun Soo Kim hit his first home run at Camden Yards and fourth of the year.
Ryan Baillargeon is a reporter for MLB.com based in Baltimore and covered the Rangers on Thursday.
Todd Karpovich is a contributor to MLB.com and covered the Orioles on Thursday.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
Rangers rack up extra-base hits, spoil Miley's O's debut
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