Ezequiel Duran did not need an RBI in the box score to own the final play.
ESPN's box score has the Rangers third baseman 4-for-5 with four hits, zero runs, and zero official RBI in Texas' 2-1, 10-inning win over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday at Globe Life Field.
The Associated Press recap on ESPN described the walk-off sequence: with two outs in the 10th after an intentional walk, Duran reached on a grounder that Denzer Guzman backhanded, then threw wide of second while trying for a force, allowing Wyatt Langford to score.
The contact MLB.com measured
MLB.com's story timed Duran's 10th-inning grounder at 100.8 mph and said Guzman threw wide of second, the same error path the AP logged. Official scoring in that AP account treated both runs against Ben Joyce in the 10th as unearned. Duran's hit column stayed full even when the RBI column stayed empty - a reminder that walk-off contributions are not always scored as RBI.
Earlier, the AP noted Duran led off the ninth with a double and moved to third on a wild pitch before Ryan Watson struck out the side.
That leadoff double is why Frisco's Player of the Day is not only a four-hit night; it is a night that kept pressuring Angels pitching into the last regulation inning and then supplied the ball in play that ended extras.
From a cold road trip to eight of nine
MLB.com placed the surge in context: after a 4-for-29 stretch across seven games on the Rangers' recent road trip between Oakland and Anaheim, Duran had reached base in eight of his last nine plate appearances over two games, a stretch MLB.com described as including a double, a triple, two singles, and two walks.
Duran told MLB.com the work lately had been about staying simple and staying straight to the ball.
