Overview
- Texas claimed two of three in Philadelphia following Sunday’s 8-3 win in 10 innings, starting 2026 at 2-1 and sitting atop the AL West.
- Andrew McCutchen homered for three runs on Sunday and drove in the go-ahead run Saturday, going 4-for-9 with two doubles and four RBI in the series.
- Left-hander MacKenzie Gore impressed in his Rangers debut with 5.1 innings of two-run ball, allowing no hits until the sixth and striking out seven.
- Jacob deGrom was scratched in Philadelphia with a stiff neck, and the club has not decided if he will make his season debut on the current trip to Baltimore.
- Texas is still adjusting to MLB’s automated balls-and-strikes system, which uses technology to call the zone, as the bullpen sorts out roles after rookie Carter Baumler escaped a shaky seventh on Sunday.