It’s not May anymore, St. Louis. After enjoying baseball’s best record for much of last month, the Cardinals came to Arlington and promptly lost this series as the calendar flipped to June.
For the Rangers, the June-opening victory allows them to finish their homestand even while facing a couple of bird teams with October history against Texas.
The Rangers accomplished the rubber match win by scoring a couple of runs early which allowed them to put fate in Jacob deGrom’s seasoned right hand. The veteran even had a strikeout this time — four in them, in fact — after his first ever appearance without a K in his big league career last time out.