ARLINGTON — There is a case to be made that for the Rangers’ evolution this season to match the design, there are no two more important players on the roster...
In Dunning’s fourth start of the season he held the Astros to two runs, and the Rangers took the first of four against the defending AL champs.
“It’s a great opportunity,” he said Monday afternoon. “I look at it just like a great challenge for our team. We shouldn’t feel like ‘Oh, crap we’re playing a good team.’ We should want it. We desire to be a winning team. We’ve got to go head-to-head with these guys.”and the lockout-shortened first month of the season ends with the equivalent of a World Series of a homestand: four games against AL champ Houston followed by three with World Series champion Braves.
But this team will score some runs. Or it better since offseason investment was overwhelmingly tilted towards fixing the everyday lineup. The next step: To grow at least one more legitimate starter to pair with Jon Gray for the future, while the Jack Leiter and Cole Winn refine their talent in the minor leagues.
Though he allowed a homer to Alvarez to lead off the second and ended up in a jam, he escaped it without further trouble by striking out the last two hitters in the Houston order. He was one out away from his first quality start of the season when he allowed a sixth-inning single to Yuli Gurriel. That’s when Woodward decided to pull him. The Rangers still wanted to keep him under 90 pitches.
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