The Texas Rangers hope Wyatt Langford’s first-inning single is a signal of more to come from the entire offense.
in the series finale. He’s as aware as anyone that the Rangers have been in a month-long offensive valley, with rare exceptions.
Consider the situation. The Rangers had the bases loaded with no one out after Marcus Semien was hit by a pitch, Josh Smith walked and Adolis García singled. Then Nathaniel Lowe and Ezequiel Duran both struck out.Langford, a rookie, is still shaking off the rust of an injured list stint. He entered the game batting .224 for the season and was 8-for-34 since his activation from the 10-day injured list on May 28. He didn’t play on Saturday, with Bochy saying that Langford “needed a day.
Langford swung at the first pitch from Giants starter Keaton Winn, a 95 mph fastball and grounded it up the middle. Semien and Smith scored. The Rangers had a 2-0 lead.“Everybody’s been talking about it,” Semien said of the team’s offensive struggles. “So it’s good to break out of it.” But entering Sunday the Rangers were batting .213 with 79 runs in their last 25 games. They were averaging 3.2 runs per game and had scored one or zero runs in eight games since the start of May, tied for third in the Majors in that span.
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