Wyatt Langford went 3-for-5 with a home run and two RBIs as the Texas Rangers rallied from a five-run deficit to earn a 9-7 victory over the visiting San Diego Padres on Friday.

Alejandro Osuna and Jake Burger each drove in two runs, while Jacob deGrom (6-4) threw six innings of six-hit, six-run ball, while striking out nine and walking three. Jacob Latz earned a four-out save — his 13th in 15 tries for Texas, which had dropped five of its last six games.

Ty France hit two home runs and drove in five for San Diego, which has lost three of its last four. Randy Vasquez (6-5) lasted just 3 1/3 innings, allowing seven runs (six earned) on eight hits, walking three and striking out one.

San Diego jumped on Texas early, scoring five first-inning runs. After Fernando Tatis Jr. began the game with a walk and Samad Taylor followed with a single, Gavin Sheets’ two-out single scored the Padres’ first run.

Xander Bogaerts walked to load the bases before France hit a grand slam to push the margin to five.

Texas answered with a six-run bottom of the first. Joc Pederson reached on an error and Josh Jung walked to begin the inning. Two batters later, Brandon Nimmo’s double cut the deficit to 5-1. Ezequiel Duran then walked and Osuna doubled to pull the Rangers within two.

Burger doubled to even the score at five apiece. Nicky Lopez singled to place runners on the corners, before Elias Diaz’s infield single gave Texas a 6-5 lead.

France’s second home run went 409 feet and tied the game at six in the top of the fourth.

Jung singled and Langford doubled to put Texas ahead 7-6 in the bottom of the fourth.

Yuki Matsui then relieved Vasquez, tossing 1 2/3 scoreless innings.

Against David Morgan in the sixth, Jung and Langford singled before Duran’s RBI single gave the Rangers an 8-6 lead.

Jakob Junis threw a scoreless seventh in relief of deGrom. In the eighth, Sheets’ solo home run off Junis sliced Texas’ lead to 8-7.

Jason Adam took over in the eighth and surrendered Langford’s leadoff homer to push the advantage back to two.

–Field Level Media

Pinch hitter Braxton Fulford delivered a go-ahead two-run double in the eighth inning, and the Colorado Rockies survived a shaky ninth inning to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 in Denver on Friday.

Kyle Freeland struck out eight to become the second Colorado pitcher to reach 1,000 for his career, joining German Marquez (1,069). He finished the game with 1,001 K’s.

TJ Rumfield homered among his two hits and Ezequiel Tovar also had two hits for the Rockies, who recovered to win the opener of the three-game series. Colorado has alternated losses and victories for six games.

Jared Triolo had two hits and an RBI for Pittsburgh, which overcame Freeland’s longest start of the season. Freeland blanked the Pirates on two hits through seven innings and reached his strikeout milestone when he fanned Marcell Ozuna in the seventh.

That came during a stretch when Freeland retired 16 in a row, but Pittsburgh rallied after the lefty got the first out of the eighth.

Esmerlyn Valdez ended the streak with a one-out double. Triolo followed with a run-scoring double to chase Freeland, who wound up charged with two runs on four hits and no walks in 7 1/3 innings.

Jaden Hill came on to face pinch hitter Bryan Reynolds, who produced an RBI single on the reliever’s first pitch. Hill hit Spencer Horowitz with a pitch, and Nick Gonzales tripled to give Pittsburgh a 3-2 lead.

Colorado, which had built a 2-0 edge on Willi Castro’s RBI double in the third and Rumfield’s 11th home run in the fourth, answered in its half of the eighth against Mason Montgomery (2-2).

With two outs, Tyler Freeman and Cole Carrigg singled to put runners on first and second. Fulford then came through to move the Rockies in front.

The Pirates loaded the bases with no outs in the ninth on a single, an error and a walk, but Antonio Senzatela (7-0) struck out Tyler Callihan and got Triolo to hit into a game-ending double play.

Pittsburgh starter Bubba Chandler tossed six strong innings, allowing two runs on six hits during his first start at Colorado. He walked two and struck out one. Chandler earned a save when he made his major league debut against the Rockies last August in Pittsburgh.

–Field Level Media

LIV Golf has bigger issues to tackle in the near future, but it’s another troublesome sign for the fledgling league that a player who carded a septuple bogey could well be LIV’s top U.S. Open finisher come Sunday in Southampton, N.Y.

For those counting, a septuple bogey is carding a 7 over par on one hole, which Joaquin Niemann ended up with on the par-4 sixth hole at Shinnecock Hills on Thursday after being assessed a two-shot penalty for throwing his club.

To the young Chilean’s credit, he used the viral moment as motivation to card a 65 on Friday, tying the low round of the day with Collin Morikawa. It also propelled Niemann inside the cut line at 3-over 143 for the tournament.

He was one of only six of the 13 LIV players to qualify for the weekend. And half of those made the cut on the number when it moved to 4 over.

At 3 over, Niemann is equal to Dustin Johnson and one shot behind England’s Tyrrell Hatton. Hatton, who was LIV’s top finisher at the Masters and is coming off a win at Andalucia, enters the third round tied for 34th. After opening with a 74, Hatton rebounded with a 2-under 68 on Friday.

Niemann and Hatton were largely an anomaly for LIV on Friday.

Johnson, who was contending for the lead much of the first round, carded double and quadruple bogeys on his back nine on Friday to post a 7-over 77. He will play the weekend, which is more than fellow former U.S. Open champion Jon Rahm can say.

The Spaniard opened with a 68 and appeared poised to build on his runner-up finish at the PGA Championship last month. That was short-lived, however, as Rahm went 6 over across a five-hole stretch and missed the cut by two shots.

Bryson DeChambeau has missed the cut in each of the first three majors of 2026. He carded consecutive double bogeys while stumbling to a 75 on Friday — missing the cut by a lone shot.

On a positive note, 22-year-old Caleb Surratt survived closing with consecutive bogeys to make the cut on the number in his first career major.

LIV GOLF U.S. OPEN SCORES THROUGH 36 HOLES

Tyrrell Hatton, T34 (+2)

Dustin Johnson, T46 (+3)

Joaquin Niemann, T46 (+3)

Laurie Canter, T60 (+4)

Caleb Surratt, T60 (+4)

Peter Uihlein, T60 (+4)

MISSED CUT

Bryson DeChambeau (+5)

Carlos Ortiz (+6)

Jon Rahm (+6)

Cameron Smith (+6)

Lucas Herbert (+6)

David Puig (+9)

Graeme McDowell (+12)

–Derek Harper, Field Level Media