The Texas Rangers scored nine runs while the Houston Astros scored one run.
A national ESPN audience got to watch the Rangers exorcise a little bit of their Houston demons tonight with a scintillating blowout victory that gave Texas an early lead for the Silver Boot.
The Rangers and Astros traded zeroes for six innings until a fateful 7th inning. Finally up 2-0, Andrew Heaney and the Rangers outlasted Cy Young contender Framber Valdez but though they once had the bases loaded with no one out with a chance to put the game out of reach, after two outs without scoring more runs, Marcus Semien parked an 0-2 pitch into the Crawford Boxes for a grand slam to put Texas up 6-0.