The Texas Rangers scored a beefy 16 runs while the Philadelphia Phillies scored a paltry runs.
The Phillies likely weren’t big fans of the April Fools’ Day joke played on them by home plate umpire C.B. Bucknor today. With an assist from the erratic Bucknor strike zone, a shaky Nathan Eovaldi was able to navigate through five innings in his Rangers debut.
Eovaldi had some runs to play with, however, as Texas scored on the second pitch that they saw this afternoon when Marcus Semien led off with a solo dong off of Phillies’ starter Zack Wheeler.