ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jake Rogers hit a pair of home runs, including a tiebreaking line drive in the eighth inning, and the Detroit Tigers beat the Texas Rangers 2-1 on Monday night to return to the .500 mark.
A West Texas native who lives in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, Rogers homered with two outs in the third against Nathan Eovaldi and cut a 1-1 fastball from José Leclerc (3-4) just inside. of the left field pole with two out in the eighth. Rogers, 29, had the third two-homer game of his major league career and doubled his season home run total.
Beau Brieske (1-0) struck out four in three scoreless innings, allowing Ezequiel Durán to double in the ninth before retiring Leody Taveras with a fly ball.
Detroit (30-30) has won two in a row.
Rangers manager Bruce Bochy was not present for the game for what the team called personal reasons, and is expected to return Tuesday. His assistant Will Venable took charge of the team.
For the Tigers, Colombian Gio Urshela 4-1.
For the Rangers, Dominican Ezequiel Durán 4-1. Cuban Adolis García 4-1
