Field Level Media
May 23, 2021
Adolis Garcia delivered the walk-off infield single as the host Texas Rangers completed a three-game sweep of the Houston Astros with a 3-2 win in 10 innings on Sunday.
Garcia, who entered Sunday tied for the American League lead with 14 homers, hit the walk-off three-run blast in Friday's 7-5 victory in 10 innings. He also went deep twice in an 8-4 win on Saturday.
Nate Lowe led off the 10th against Ryan Pressly (2-1) with a grounder to second to advance automatic runner Nick Solak. Second baseman Jose Altuve made a diving stop of Garcia's grounder in front of the bag, but Solak easily beat the throw home to cap the Rangers' first sweep of the Astros since July 27-29, 2018.
The Rangers were outscored 26-14 in a four-game sweep at the hands of the Astros last weekend.
John King (5-3) got into and out of a first-and-third jam with no outs in the top of the 10th inning.
Lowe drew a bases-loaded walk in the fourth inning and Solak had an RBI double in the seventh.
Michael Brantley tied the game for the Astros with an RBI groundout in the eighth inning.
The Astros' eighth-inning rally cost Rangers starter Mike Foltynewicz a win after his longest scoreless outing in 20 months. Foltynewicz allowed three hits and two walks while striking out two over seven innings. He'd last worked at least seven scoreless innings on Sept. 20, 2019, when he tossed eight innings of three-hit ball for the Atlanta Braves against the San Francisco Giants.
Astros starter Cristian Javier gave up one run on one hit but walked six and struck out five over 4 2/3 innings.
Neither Foltynewicz nor Javier allowed a hit through the first three innings before Brantley and Lowe singled in the top and bottom of the fourth, respectively. The Rangers scored a run without a hit in the fifth, when Javier yielded three walks before Brooks Raley relieved him and issued a free pass to Lowe to force home Brock Holt.
Solak's run-scoring hit extended the Rangers' lead before the Astros came back against Josh Sborz and Brett Martin. Sborz gave up three singles while getting just one out before Martin uncorked a wild pitch to allow Jason Castro to score. Martin then gave up a run-scoring groundout to Brantley.
--Field Level Media