Texas Rangers Hammer Royals Behind Andrew Heaney, Homers

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ARLINGTON, Texas-- Nolan Ryan has a statue outside of World Life Area. The Lone Star State icon and baseball legend just doesn't have the Texas Rangers franchise business single-game document for consecutive strikeouts any longer. That mark now comes from Andrew Heaney, that slaughtered nine Kansas City Royals straight during Monday night's 11-2 blowout success for the Rangers. "It's undoubtedly actually awesome," Heaney stated of breaking Ryan's record. Heaney (1-1) recoiled from a dreadful first beginning in a Texas uniform with a commanding performance. After allowing 7 runs and also only getting 8 outs against the Baltimore Orioles a week prior, the left-hander completely stunned Kansas City Milt Pappas Jersey. The initially 10 outs the Royals made were all strikeouts. After some problem in the top of the initial that led to an unearned run, Heaney struck out two straight to end the inning with 2 on base. He set out the side in the 2nd and third innings before opening up the fourth with another K. The streak of 9 successive strikeouts bested both Ryan's single-game document of seven in 1991 as well as Joe Barlow's document of eight (over 2 video games) embeded in 2021 Eduard Bazardo Jersey. Heaney's 9 in a row additionally linked the American League document, done two times previously. Heaney went five innings, permitting simply the unearned run and also two hits along with his 10 strikeouts. His career-high 14 strikeouts came versus Texas in 2019.