Rangers more than surviving while facing big questions in series win over Astros

“I love the fight they have,” said birthday boy manager Bruce Bochy, who turned 68 Sunday. “They’ve had some tough games. But they bounce back and play well. We had a game [Saturday] that got away from us. You look at the history between these teams and you get a close game late and you know they could say ‘Oh, no, here we go again.’

Put it this way: Over the previous 25 years, the Rangers had the patience to take one bases-loaded walk in scoreless game in the seventh inning or later and had on three occasions hit two-out, 0-2 grand slams. On Sunday, they did both. In the same inning. The Rangers loaded the bases on shortstop Jeremy Peña’s low throw on Adolis García’s grounder and Josh Jung’s soft single. Heim then took a 3-1 sinker, just off the outside corner to force in the first run. The last time a Ranger hitter did that in a scoreless game in the seventh or later, it was Kevin Elster. The year was 1998.

After Heim’s walk, Robbie Grossman, in an 0 for 22 skid, bounced a ball through the left side to score a second run and force Valdez from the game. Reliever Hector Neris got two quick outs and got ahead of Semien with a splitter down in the zone and followed with a four-seamer away for a foul ball. He returned to the splitter once again but left it at the knees. Semien lined it into the boxes.

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