Josh Bell tripled the first time up last night, but was stranded. The second time he stepped in, in the third, the switch-hitting, 29-year-old slugger grounded out, then he doubled with one out in the top of the sixth, and scored the first run of the game for either team on Luis García’s RBI double to right-center field, 1-0.
The Rangers rallied to tie it with a run in the bottom of the sixth inning in the series opener with the Washington Nationals in Arlington, Texas’s Globe Life Field, but in the eighth, Juan Soto doubled to lead off the top of the inning, and Bell drove him in with an RBI single back up the middle of the field, 2-1, and the visitors held on for a one-run win in the first of three.