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Gallo blasted a three-run homer in the eighth
inning of Saturday's win. Texas took the season-opening series
after getting blasted 12-4 in the opener. Gallo started off
Sunday's bottom of the ninth with an opposite-field double off
the left-field wall. After advancing to third on a Shin-Soo Choo
groundout, Gallo came home on Pedro Strop's wild pitch.
The Cubs couldn't hold leads of 4-0 and 8-5 and instead start
the season 1-2.
The Rangers' Asdrubal Cabrera, who homered in consecutive games
and hit .455 for the series, clubbed a two-run homer off Cubs
right-hander Mike Montgomery to cap a four-run seventh inning
and give Texas a 10-8 lead.
The Cubs scored four runs in the first four innings off Lance
Lynn in his Rangers debut. Cubs starter Cole Hamels, however,
put himself in harm's way with consecutive two-out walks in the
bottom of the fourth that loaded the bases for DeLino DeShields.
DeShields made Hamels pay, taking the lefty deep to left for a
grand slam and a 5-4 Rangers lead.
Jason Heyward, Ben Zobrist and Anthony Rizzo, who also homered
on the day, each had RBI singles in the sixth, and Javier Baez's
infield single provided Chicago with a four-run inning to
reclaim an 8-5 lead. That lead lasted an inning as the Rangers
struck for four runs in the bottom of the seventh to take a 10-8
lead.
Rizzo's home run and Daniel Descalso's RBI single in the eighth
tied the game up at 10, setting up the Rangers' walk-off
heroics.
Lynn surrendered seven runs on 10 hits in 5 2/3 innings.
DeShields' grand slam gave the right-hander a reprieve, but Lynn
couldn't take advantage. Hamels, acquired by Chicago from the
Rangers at the trade deadline last season, gave up five runs on
six hits and three walks with four strikeouts in throwing 100
pitches in five innings.
--Field Level Media
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