Joc Pederson had three hits, including a go-ahead RBI single in a three-run ninth inning, and the visiting Texas Rangers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-4 on Tuesday.

Josh Jung followed with a run-scoring single against Riley O’Brien (3-3) to help Texas extend its winning streak to a season-high five games. Pederson scored on Brandon Nimmo’s sacrifice fly to cap the decisive rally.

Kyle Higashioka had three hits for the Rangers, who won despite being outhit 13-9.

Cal Quantrill (3-0) recorded the final out in the eighth inning before Jakob Junis worked around a two-out single in the ninth for his fourth save.

Nolan Gorman hit a solo homer for St. Louis, which lost for the seventh time in its last nine games. Alec Burleson and Jimmy Crooks each contributed a pair of hits and an RBI. The Cardinals went 3-for-14 with runners in scoring position and stranded 11 baserunners.

The Rangers’ starting rotation shutout streak ended at 28 innings with a run in the second inning against Nathan Eovaldi, who allowed Crooks’ one-out RBI single.

The 28-inning scoreless streak is the third-longest in franchise history and the longest for Texas since July 9-16, 2011, when the run ended after 30 1/3 scoreless frames.

Gorman added to the lead with a one-out homer in the fourth inning. The 373-foot shot was Gorman’s seventh homer this season.

Texas pulled even with two runs against Dustin May in the fifth inning. Evan Carter hit a one-out single, moved to third on Higashioka’s single and scored on Nicky Lopez’s fielder’s choice grounder. Pederson tied the game with an RBI double to right field, scoring Lopez from first.

The Rangers moved ahead in the sixth inning when Alejandro Osuna’s two-out single scored Jake Burger from second base.

May allowed three runs on five hits with two walks and nine strikeouts over 5 2/3 innings.

Texas added to its lead with a run in the seventh inning. With runners on the corners and one out, Higashioka scored on Jung’s sacrifice fly.

St. Louis pulled even in the bottom of the seventh. Burleson doubled in a run and Jordan Walker added an RBI single against Eovaldi, who gave up four runs on 11 hits with one walk and seven strikeouts over six-plus innings.

–Field Level Media

Gage Jump pitched seven stellar innings in his second big league start and Zack Gelof had the decisive tiebreaking single to lift the Athletics to a 2-1 victory over the host Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night.

Jump (1-1) allowed one run and three hits and retired the final 14 batters he faced in an 85-pitch effort. He struck out five and walked one.

Nick Kurtz homered to help the Athletics win for just the third time in the past 10 games.

Justin Sterner pitched a perfect eighth inning and Hogan Harris replaced an ineffective Scott Barlow to record the final out for his fifth save.

Before Harris retired the final batter, Barlow encountered troubles in the ninth as Nico Horner led off with a walk and Pete Crow-Armstrong followed with a single, Chicago’s first hit since the second inning. Barlow then struck out Alex Bregman and retired Seiya Suzuki before being pulled.

The left-handed Harris came in, forcing the switch-hitting Happ to bat right-handed. Harris retired Happ on a fly to center to end it.

Bregman had the lone RBI for the slumping Cubs, who lost for the 13th time in their past 16 games.

Jameson Taillon (2-5) gave up two runs and six hits over 6 1/3 innings. He struck out six and walked one. Taillon has allowed nine homers over his past four outings.

The A’s took the 2-1 lead in the fourth when Brent Rooker and Henry Bolte hit consecutive one-out singles to put runners on first and second. One out later, Gelof lined a single up the middle over the leap of Chicago second baseman Hoerner and into center to score Rooker.

Jump didn’t get off a great start, giving up singles to Hoerner and Crow-Armstrong in the bottom of the first. Crow-Armstrong proceeded to steal second.

Bregman’s infield grounder scored Hoerner. But the uprising was short-circuited when A’s catcher Shea Langeliers gunned out Crow-Armstrong trying to steal third. Jump then struck out Suzuki to end the inning.

In the second, Jump hit Happ with a pitch and allowed a one-out single to Michael Busch, the Cubs’ final hit off the 23-year-old. The inning ended when Langeliers threw out Kevin Alcantara trying to steal second with runners at the corners.

The Athletics tied the game in the third when Kurtz came up with two outs and smacked an 0-1 sweeper from Taillon over the wall in left-center.

–Field Level Media