The Texas Rangers arrived in San Diego on a hot streak, but had a cold showing Monday night in a shutout loss to the Padres.
Rangers starting pitcher Colby Lewis gave up five earned runs (six total) and seven hits through 5.2 innings pitched after showing good command of his pitches early in the game.
Texas began unraveling in the sixth inning, when the Padres scored four runs on singles from pitcher Tyson Ross and Yangervis Solarte, a double from Cory Spangenberg and a sacrifice fly from Jedd Gyorko.
Ross had an excellent game for San Diego. In seven innings pitched, Ross allowed just three hits while striking out seven Rangers. Texas hitters combined for only those three hits all night.
Matt Kemp added another RBI to give him 25 in the month of August on a third-inning double that scored Yonder Alonso. Kemp now has 81 RBI on the season.
Alonso gave San Diego the first points of the game on a single RBI right before Kemp's double.
Lewis and the Rangers entered Monday's contest 1.5 games ahead of the Minnesota Twins for the American League's second wild-card spot. Texas will need to come together quickly as the team has nine more consecutive away games in it's longest road trip of the season.
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