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06/05 21:56 CDT Corey Seager homers in his return and Higashioka also goes deep
as Rangers win 3-2 over Guardians
Corey Seager homers in his return and Higashioka also goes deep as Rangers win
3-2 over Guardians
By STEPHEN HAWKINS
AP Baseball Writer
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) --- Corey Seager hit a go-ahead homer to end a
career-worst 0-for-29 slump in his first game for Texas in more than three
weeks and Kyle Higashioka also went deep as the Rangers beat the Cleveland
Guardians 3-2 on Friday night.
Seager had missed 19 games since May 13 while on the injured list because of
lower back inflammation. His two-run homer in the sixth inning made it 3-2
right after a double by Wyatt Langford, who missed 39 games since April 21
because of a right forearm strain before he was also activated from the IL
before the game.
Guardians rookie starter Parker Messick (6-2) retired 15 of the first 16
batters he faced, including the first 11, before Higashioka homered leading off
the sixth. Messick then gave up the extra-base hits to Langford and Seager, and
another hit to Josh Jung before a two-out walk ended his night.
Rangers starter Kumar Rocker struck out five while allowing two runs over five
innings before Peyton Gray (2-0) worked 1 2/3 innings. Jacob Latz, their third
reliever, worked two innings for his ninth save.
Travis Bazzana had his first career leadoff homer and finished with three hits
for the Guardians. He was stranded at third after a leadoff triple in the fifth.
Austin Hedges, a backup catcher for the Rangers' World Series championship team
in 2023, put the Guardians up 2-0 with an RBI single in the fourth.
Seager's 0-for-29 slide included 11 strikeouts. The two-time World Series MVP,
still hitting .181 in his 43 games, had been hitless in his previous seven
games, also a career worst, since an RBI single on May 6 at Yankee Stadium
after he hit a home run earlier in that game.
Up next
Tanner Bibbe (0-7, 4.57 ERA) pitches for the Guardians in the middle game of
the series Saturday. Rangers right-hander Jack Leiter (3-4, 4.34) tries to win
his third start in a row.
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