Mazara's two homers power Rangers past White Sox

Mazara's two homers power Rangers past White Sox
Mazara's two homers power Rangers past White Sox

Nomar Mazara homered twice and Lance Lynn pitched resiliently after a shaky first inning to help the host Texas Rangers to a 6-5 victory against the Chicago White Sox on Saturday night.

Mazara connected against White Sox starter Odrisamer Despaigne for both homers. He also drilled a towering home run estimated at 505 feet in Friday's series opener.

Lynn (9-4) went seven innings, allowing five runs and six hits, with six strikeouts and one walk. After allowing four runs in the first inning, the right-hander settled down and retired 13 in a row during one stretch. Lynn is 7-2 in his past 11 starts.

Chris Martin allowed a baserunner in the ninth but recovered to earn the save as the Rangers evened the weekend series at one game apiece.

White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson went 3-for-4 with a home run, a double and a career-high-tying four RBIs. Anderson highlighted Chicago's first inning outburst with a two-out, bases-clearing double and scored on Yolmer Sanchez's double one batter later.

In the sixth, Anderson hit a solo home run to center to put Chicago ahead 5-4, but the lead was short-lived. Texas scored twice in the bottom half - on RBI singles from Shin-Soo Choo and Delino DeShields - to take the lead while recording the first earned runs of the season against losing White Sox reliever Evan Marshall (3-1).

Marshall had permitted just 13 baserunners in 17 1/3 innings before Saturday, when he allowed two runs on four hits and one walk in one-third of an inning.

Mazara belted a two-run home run to right field in the first inning before contributing a solo shot to right center that tied the game at 4-all in the third.

Despaigne's third White Sox start was his shortest. The journeyman right-hander yielded four runs on eight hits in three-plus innings with one walk and zero strikeouts.

Six Texas players collected two hits - Elvis Andrus, Willie Calhoun, Logan Forsythe, Ronald Guzman, Choo and Mazara.

Leury Garcia had two hits for Chicago.

--Field Level Media

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