2 homers from Seager lead Rangers to 4-3 victory over Pittsburgh Pirates
Corey Seager homered twice and drove in four runs, and the Texas Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 on Monday night.
Seager's nine homers in August are tied for the major league lead with Miami's Jake Burger. He also went deep twice on Aug. 2 against Boston.
Texas finished with five hits.
Rangers right-hander José Ureña (4-8) pitched four scoreless innings in relief of Dane Dunning. Ureña struck out three and walked two.
Kirby Yates worked a perfect ninth for his 22nd save after having his first blown save of the season on Sunday.
The defending World Series champions have won consecutive games for the first time since a four-game home sweep of the Chicago White Sox in July.
Pittsburgh has dropped 12 of 14. Jared Triolo hit a three-run homer in the fourth for the Pirates.
Seager launched a 3-2 cutter for a solo shot in the first against Luis Ortiz (5-4). He connected on a first-pitch slider from Ortiz for a three-run drive for his 28th homer in the third.
Both homers were pulled to right field. The first went about 20 rows deep while the second barely cleared the wall.
Triolo, who played for Lake Travis High near Austin and the University of Houston, pulled a 1-1 slider just inside the foul pole in left for his second homer among three August hits in 21 at-bats.
Ortiz allowed five hits in six innings. He struck out seven and walked one.
Dunning made his second straight start since returning to the rotation in the wake of injuries to multiple Rangers pitchers. He was charged with three runs and five hits.
Pirates designated hitter Joey Bart extended his on-base streak to 16 games with two singles.
Billy McKinney, a Dallas native recalled by Pittsburgh from Triple-A Indianapolis earlier Monday, singled twice for his first major league hits since August.
Keller will face Rangers LHP Cody Bradford (4-0, 3.50 ERA), who is 1-0 with a 3.67 ERA since returning to the starting rotation early this month.
