Rangers 7, Phillies 0
- That’ll get the taste of a bad weekend in Detroit out of your mouth.
- It took a while to get going, though, at least as far as the bats go. Kyle Gibson faced the minimum through the first four innings, with the help of a couple of GIDPs, which is not conducive to scoring runs.
- But Martin Perez matched Gibson, at least in terms of throwing goose eggs up on the scoreboard in the early going. Perez allowed baserunners but didn’t let a Phillie get past second base, with the closest to danger he got into being in the sixth, when he needed a Kole Calhoun diving catch with two on and one out to preserve the shutout.