One of the consequences of having a rotation that is filled with oft-infirmed arms is most are required to be handled with kid gloves. That philosophy necessitated a precautionary trip to the injured list for Nathan Eovaldi and with Kumar Rocker not yet big league viable, the Rangers opted for a full bullpen game for today’s finale from D.C.
It worked out just fine.
Six Rangers pitchers combined to allow two runs on six hits with a couple of walks and eleven strikeouts. Jacob Latz made his second ever career start and did what constituted as the heavy lifting for the day with 3 1⁄3 innings of work with a career high seven strikeouts.