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Major League Baseball
Texas 7, Washington 1
When: 8:05 PM ET, Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Where: Globe Life Field, Arlington, Texas
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Ryan Blakney, 1B - Edwin Jimenez, 2B - Jim Wolf, 3B - Alan Porter
Attendance: 27584

Jon Gray allowed one run over eight innings to pick up his first win of the season, leading the Texas Rangers to a 7-1 victory over the Washington Nationals on Tuesday in the opener of a three-game series in Arlington, Texas.

Josh Smith and Leody Taveras homered for the Rangers, who earned their third win in four games.

Gray (1-1) gave up just three singles, only one of which left the infield. He didn't walk a batter and struck out three while throwing 98 pitches, 72 for strikes.

Texas' Marcus Semien tripled, doubled and scored two runs, and Nathaniel Lowe went 2-for-4 with an RBI, a walk and a run. Smith finished with two hits and two runs.

Nationals starter MacKenzie Gore (2-3) gave up two runs on five hits over five innings. He walked one and struck out seven.

Washington, which had a four-game winning streak snapped, took a 1-0 lead in the first inning. CJ Abrams led off with an infield single, stole second and scored on a two-out single by Luis Garcia Jr.

Texas tied it 1-1 in the fourth when Lowe led off with an infield single, advanced to second on a single by Adolis Garcia and scored on a single by Jonah Heim.

The Rangers took a 2-1 lead in the fifth when Semien tripled off the wall in right-center with one out and scored on a groundout by Corey Seager.

Smith extended the Texas lead to 3-1 in the sixth when he lined his second homer of the season to right. Lowe made it 4-1 an inning later with an RBI single, driving in Semien, who had doubled.

The Rangers broke the game open with a three-run eighth against reliever Tanner Rainey. Smith walked, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on a single by Evan Carter to make it 5-1. Taveras followed with his first homer of the season, which just cleared the fence in center field.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Washington   Texas
MacKenzie Gore Player Jon Gray
Loss W/L Win
5.0 IP 8.0
7 Strikeouts 3
5 Hits 3
3.60 ERA 1.12
Hitting
Washington   Texas
Luis Garcia Jr. Player Josh H. Smith
1 Hits 2
1 RBI 1
0 HR 1
1 TB 5
.333 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Washington 3 0 3 .100 4 3 1 0 1 1
Texas 10 2 19 .278 14 10 7 2 1 0