Texas Rangers Hammer Royals Behind Andrew Heaney, Homers

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ARLINGTON, Texas-- Nolan Ryan has a sculpture outside of World Life Field. The Lone Celebrity State symbol as well as baseball legend just doesn't have the Texas Rangers franchise single-game document for successive strikeouts anymore. That mark currently comes from Andrew Heaney, who cut down nine Kansas City Royals in a row during Monday evening's 11-2 blowout success for the Rangers."It's clearly really cool, " Heaney said of breaking Ryan's record. Heaney (1-1) rebounded from an awful initial start in a Texas attire with a commanding efficiency. After permitting seven runs as well as only getting 8 outs versus the Baltimore Orioles a week prior Daniel Tillo Jersey, the left-hander totally amazed Kansas City.The initially 10 outs the Royals made were all strikeouts. After some difficulty in the top of the very first that caused an unearned run, Heaney started out 2 straight to end the inning with 2 on base.He struck out the side in the second as well as third innings before opening the 4th with an additional K. The streak of 9 succeeding strikeouts bested both Ryan's single-game document of 7 in 1991 and also Joe Barlow's document of eight (over 2 video games) embeded in 2021. Heaney's 9 in a row also connected the American Organization document, done twice formerly. Heaney went 5 innings Mark Gubicza Jersey, permitting just the unearned run as well as two hits along with his 10 strikeouts. His career-high 14 strikeouts came versus Texas in 2019.