Rox win on wild pitch in 11th; Texas' 13th road loss in row

DENVER (AP) — Ryan McMahon scored on Brett Martin’s wild pitch in the 11th inning and the Colorado Rockies beat Texas 3-2 Tuesday night, the Rangers’ 13th straight road loss.

McMahon started the inning on second base, moved to third on a groundout and raced home when Martin (0-2) bounced a pitch to Brendan Rodgers that got away from catcher Jonah Heim.

“I don’t think it was a mistake on Brett. He was trying to bury that slider,” Rangers manager Chris Woodward said. “He threw it in the right spot, maybe got a little too far in front of the plate. It’s a ball Jonah would tell you he’d like to block. It kicked away.”

Texas has lost seven in a row overall.

Yonathan Daza had three hits for Colorado and Mychal Givens (2-2) pitched the 11th to get the win.

Heim started the top of the 11th on second base but Givens picked him off trying to steal third.

“I was reading the situation and saw that Heim was creeping toward third,” Givens said. “I did it at the right time.”

The Rockies got a break in the first inning when C.J. Cron’s grounder up the middle hit second base umpire David Rackley for a single, keeping the inning going. Charlie Blackmon followed with a single to score McMahon, who had doubled with two outs.

“Yeah, we definitely got unlucky a few times,” Woodward said. “I haven’t seen a ball hit an umpire and result in a run in a long time. I’ve never seen it. That’s life.”

Texas tied it in the fourth on Rodgers’ throwing error from shortstop on a potential double-play ball that allowed Nate Lowe to score from second.

That was the last Rangers batter to reach off Colorado starter Germán Márquez. He retired the last 12 batters he faced and ended with a strikeout to finish the seventh. He allowed an unearned run on two...

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