Wyatt Langford and Adolis Garcia blasted two-run home runs and Jake Burger added a two-run double as the Texas Rangers rolled past the struggling Colorado Rockies 8-3 on Wednesday to sweep the three-game interleague series in Arlington, Texas.
Texas has won five straight games for just the second time all season while the Rockies continued to battle to find the win column, falling for the third straight contest and losing for the 11th time in their past 12 outings while dropping to an MLB-worst 7-36.
Patrick Corbin (3-2) was rock solid for Texas, allowing three runs on four hits and a walk over six innings while striking out a season-high nine batters. All of the runs Corbin allowed were on home runs.
Antonio Senzatela, the first of five Colorado pitchers, allowed six runs on eight hits in 4 2/3 innings. The Rockies are 0-3 under interim manager Warren Schaeffer, who took over the team on Sunday after Bud Black was fired while in his ninth year in Denver.
The Rangers set the tone in the bottom of the first inning as Langford ripped a two-run home run off Senzatela (1-7). Texas added a third run in the frame when Josh Jung walked with the bases loaded and then a fourth as Evan Carter’s groundout sent home Garcia.
The Rockies got on the board in the second on Michael Toglia’s solo home run.
Jake Burger pushed the Texas lead to 6-1 in the fifth on a two-out double that allowed Jung and Carter to cross the plate. Colorado again used the long ball to pare its deficit as Kyle Farmer mashed a two-run home run over the left center field wall in the sixth to bring it to 6-3.
Texas all but salted away the win when Garcia blasted a two-run round tripper in the bottom of the sixth to re-establish the Rangers’ five-run lead.
Caleb Boushley took over for Corbin in the seventh and allowed three singles and a walk in 2 1/3 innings. Robert Garcia got the final two outs to finish off the game.
