Rangers Defeat Pirates 6-1, deGrom Shines

0:00It's April 24th. This is MLB News today baseball coverage powered by AI. Texas Rangers took down the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-1 in the rubber match of their series, with Jacob DeGrom dealing on the mound. The 37-year-old two-time Saiyung winner struck out 10-5-2-3 innings, improving to 2-0, with a slick 2.1. Three ERA in a 6 starts this year. He threw 63 of 89 pitches for strikes, gave up just 5 hits, and one walk before heading out. Evan Carter stole the show early with a two run inside the park homer in the third, his third of the season, and first of that kind in his career. He ripped a 97.5 mile per hour fastball that bounced off the wall out of the right fielders reach, and he circled the bases, standing up. That blast came after a close call on balls and strikes, overturned by a challenge to keep him at the dish. Corey Seeger piled on in the fourth, with a three run shot, his sixth homer, pulling

1:00a 382-foot drive into the right field stands. Off-Rookie Bubba Chandler. That made it six nothing-rangers, and Chandler took the loss at one-and-two after allowing six runs on seven hits, four strikeouts, and three walks. Pittsburgh got one back in the fifth on O'Neill Cruz's eighth homer of the year, a solo poke with two outs. Pittsburgh stop Connor Griffin wrapped up his last game as a teenager, going zero for four before his 20th birthday, striking out against a fresh face, and a knife. That face was Peyton Gray, a 30-year-old ridey making his big league debut after eight years grinding through the miners, Indy Ball, and Winters. Abroad. He shut the door with a clean one-two-three frame, sealing the Rangers' win and giving fans a feel-good story to cap the night.