10-14 – Rangers, Phillies play to thrilling 0-0 tie (Texas zombies win 2-1)

The Texas Rangers scored two synthetic pleasure runs whereas the Philadelphia Phillies scored only one of their tenth inning.

We had ourselves a showdown on the rubber within the Metropolis of Brotherly Love with Rangers starter Martin Perez going toe to toe with Philadelphia’s Zack Wheeler.

In a rarity for this peculiar season, each starters made it by way of seven or extra innings with every hurler gathering three double performs apiece to erase rallies earlier than ending their nights unscathed within the run column.

Hits with runners on base had been few and much between with the 2 groups combining to go 0-for-9 with runners in scoring place with Texas leaving 4 runners to Philadelphia’s seven stranded within the truly authentic portion of the night by way of the primary 9 innings earlier than the Necessary Manfred Decision in extras.

Within the tenth, a two-out, two-run blooper off the bat of former Phillies hero Brad Miller plated some zombies to finally give the Rangers their season-high fourth consecutive win.

The Rangers are additionally not in final place within the American League West as they creep previous the 10-15 Oakland Athletics.

Participant of the Sport: In case you had instructed me like ten years in the past, when Martin Perez was in seemingly his 78th 12 months because the Rangers’ prime pitching prospect, that the lefty could be coming off his third consecutive gem for Texas with only one run allowed in 20 innings, I’d have been excited to study that the Rangers had developed a top quality starter from a teen with promise.

What makes a stretch of begins like this so shocking is how we obtained from there to right here in a decade the place Perez was sort of a mediocre starter for Texas, then a median one, then a foul one, after which he was gone to Minnesota after which Boston for just a few years earlier than returning as an afterthought at greatest in 2022.

And but, right here we’re, the place after six shutout innings in Oakland, an ideal sport into the seventh in opposition to Houston, and 7 shutout innings in opposition to Philly tonight, Perez has been the Rangers’ greatest pitcher and arguably their greatest participant to this point in 2022.

It solely took like 88 years.

Up Subsequent: The Rangers have one other day without work on Thursday earlier than starting a weekend sequence the place they’ll attempt to cease the pink sizzling New York Yankees starting on Friday night time within the Bronx.