Nathaniel Lowe hit a two-run homer, Nathan Eovaldi worked six solid innings and the Texas Rangers snapped a three-game skid with a 6-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night.
Wyatt Langford added three hits for the Rangers, who have gone 6-5 since the All-Star break. Corey Seager, Jonah Heim, Adolis Garcia and Leody Taveras also drove in runs for the Rangers.
Matt Carpenter homered for St. Louis, which has lost four of its last five games.
Lowe hit a 407-foot homer, his ninth of the season, off Chris Roycroft in the sixth inning to give Texas a 6-2 lead.
Closer Kirby Yates picked his 19th save in as many chances.
Eovaldi (8-4) allowed three runs on six hits in an 82-pitch outing. The 34-year-old right-hander struck out two and did not walk a batter for the sixth successive outing covering 43 innings. His last walk came in the third inning of a June 26 game at Milwaukee. He has struck out 32 batters in six July appearances.
Eovaldi has faced a franchise-record 166 successive hitters without issuing a walk. He also has the longest such streak in the majors this season, passing Zach Eflin, who faced 165 hitters without a walk from April 26-June 16 while with Tampa Bay - before recently getting traded to Baltimore.
Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien made a diving stop of a bases-loaded line drive that started an inning-ending double play in the seventh.
Texas took the lead for good, 3-2, with a pair of runs in the fourth inning. Heim tied the game with a run-scoring hit. Taveras snapped the tie with a run-producing grounder to first base.
Carpenter was inserted into the starting lineup due to his success against Eovaldi, with six hits in 12 career at-bats. His two-run homer in the third inning was his third of the season.
Andre Pallante (4-5) gave up three earned runs on seven hits over five innings, walking two and striking out five in the loss.
St. Louis RHP Lance Lynn (5-4, 4.17) will face RHP Max Scherzer (2-3, 3.57) in the second of a three-game set on Tuesday night. Lynn made five appearances against Texas in the 2011 World Series. He threw a scoreless eighth inning in a Game 7 victory. Scherzer, a St. Louis native, will be making his eighth appearance of the season after missing the first 11 weeks of the year while recovering from a herniated disc in his back.













