The Texas Rangers scored seven runs while the Colorado Rockies scored two runs.
One way to high leverage bullpen-proof your baseball games is to just score a bunch of runs and have the starter go deep in the game.
That’s what Texas accomplished tonight as they scored five runs in the 4th and two more in the 5th while Martin Perez bounced back from a troublesome pair of outings on the West Coast with seven innings of two-run ball on seven hits with zero walks and seven strikeouts.
For a minute there, it didn’t look like the Rangers were going to score enough to prevent nervous moments in the later frames as, through the first time through the order, debuting Rockies hurler Karl Kauffmann held them in check.