Corey Seager hit two solo home runs and an RBI double as the Texas Rangers ended a three-game losing streak with a 10-3 win over the host Detroit Tigers on Saturday.
Seager’s second multi-homer game this season led a five-homer barrage by Texas. Joc Pederson hit a two-run shot, while Josh Smith and Evan Carter supplied solo homers. Adolis Garcia drove in two runs.
Winning pitcher Jacob deGrom (3-1) lasted five-plus innings, giving up two runs and five hits while striking out a season-high 10. He fanned six consecutive batters in the first and second innings.
Kerry Carpenter had a single, triple and homer for Detroit. Riley Greene added a solo homer for the Tigers, who saw their five-game winning streak snapped.
Detroit starter Jack Flaherty (1-5) gave up five runs and four hits — all homers — in three innings. The four homers in one game were the most Flaherty’s allowed in his career.
The Rangers jumped on Flaherty early. Smith ripped a 2-2 slider over the right field wall for a leadoff home run. One out later, Seager flipped a 3-1 fastball over the right-center field wall.
Detroit got one of those runs back in the bottom of the inning as Carpenter drilled a 1-2 fastball over the right-center field wall.
Leading off the second, Carter clubbed a Flaherty fastball over the right field wall for his first homer of the year and a 3-1 Texas lead.
The long-ball parade continued in the next inning. Wyatt Langford drew a leadoff walk and Pederson clubbed a 3-2 fastball over the right field wall for his first homer this season.
DeGrom gave up two hits in the third but retired Colt Keith on a grounder, leaving the score at 5-1.
Greene went to the opposite field on a full-count slider for his ninth homer in the bottom of the fourth.
Texas extended its lead to 7-2 in the fifth. Langford walked again and scored on Seager’s double to center. Following two more walks, Garcia hit a sacrifice fly.
Seager’s second homer of the game came off Tyler Holton while leading off the seventh. Gleyber Torres had an RBI groundout in the bottom of the eighth.
–Field Level Media
