Rookie right-hander Keaton Winn will be activated off the 15-day injured list on Sunday afternoon to make the start as the San Francisco Giants try to complete a three-game series sweep of the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas. Winn (3-6, 6.17 ERA) sparkled in April by compiling a 3-3 record and 3.18 ERA in six starts. But he struggled mightily in three starts in May, losing all three and while allowing 17 runs on 17 hits in just 8 1/3 innings for an 18.36 ERA. He then went on the injured list with a right forearm strain.
Winn’s most recent start came in a 10-2 loss against the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers on May 14. He allowed five runs on five hits, including a 446-foot home run to Shohei Ohtani, over four innings. The former fifth-round pick out of Iowa Western Community College will get his first look at a Texas team that has struggled with its offense over the past month. The Rangers have only 10 hits over the first two games of the series and just one extra-base hit, a hustle double by Wyatt Langford. Right-hander Nathan Eovaldi (2-2, 2.70 ERA) will start for the Rangers on Sunday. Eovaldi is 2-4 with a 10.91 ERA in seven career starts vs. the Giants, but he hasn’t pitched against them since 2019, when he was a member of the Boston Red Sox.
Texas is averaging just 3.2 runs per game since May 10. The defending World Series champion fell to 4-27 this season when scoring three runs or less after losing 3-1 to the Giants on Saturday afternoon. “Not much to say except we’re just not doing much offensively,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said. “That’s been the story for a while here.” Heliot Ramos continued his hot hitting for San Francisco with an RBI double in the first inning and a two-run blast in the third, his fourth home run in the last six games. Ramos is hitting .462 in June (12-for-26) with six walks, four home runs and 10 RBIs.
