Nathaniel

Lowe

Lowe was able to connect on a two-run shot off Guillo Zuniga. That allows the 29-year-old to finish with 16 homers and 69 RBI. Lowe is now 29 — 30 in July — and what you see is pretty much what you get. You can do worse, you can do a lot better.

The Rangers scored twice in the eighth and four times in the ninth to win the game. Lowe collected his 15th homer and his 15th double in 560 plate appearances for the season. It’s been a disappointing campaign — he averaged 21 homers and 29 doubles over the previous three seasons — but he has finished well, hitting .301/.404/.470 in September.

The fascinating thing about T-Mobile Park in Seattle is how it’s a terrible park for offense yet a perfectly fine one for homers. There were four hit in tonight’s game, none of which would have been out in more than half of MLB’s parks. Lowe’s opposite field shot in the seventh was projected at 349 feet and would have been a homer in exactly six ballparks. That homer brought the Rangers to within two runs. Lowe then had the go-ahead hit in a three-run eighth inning on what, in our humble opinion, was an obvious error from second baseman Jorge Polanco. Lowe is batting .375/.500/.594 through 11 games this month.

The two-run homer off Caden Dana provided Lowe with his first multi-RBI game since way back on July 29. Lowe, though, has given himself chances for more such games lately; he’s hitting .405 with four extra-base hits and six walks in his last 12 games.

Lowe blistered an opposite-field shot off Chris Raycroft to extend the Texas lead to 6-3. The 29-year-old is starting to show a little more power as of late, and he also singled and walked while scoring another run. With that three-reach game and the homer, Lowe is now slashing .272/.366/.403. You can do a lot worse.

Lowe singled, doubled and walked to accumulate his three-reach day. He came around to score on a fielder’s choice in the fourth off the bat of Leody Taveras, and that gave Texas a 2-1 lead in what would end up being the final score. Lowe has looked good in the month of July with a slash of .270/.378/.460, and he’s driven in 14 runs with four homers in his 67 at-bats during that timeframe.

Lowe drew a walk in the third inning, then knocked a base hit to drive in a run in the fifth. With two runners on in the eighth, he took Jared Shuster deep for a three-run shot to extend the Texas lead. The 29-year-old first baseman is up to nine homers with 42 RBI while slashing .266/.356/.390 across 326 plate appearances.

Lowe came up huge for the Rangers with a two-out RBI single in the top of the 10th to give Texas the 2-1 lead and ultimately the win. The 29-year-old has hit a decent .264 with a .346 on-base percentage, but his .375 slugging percentage leaves a lot to be desired from the first base position. Expect a little more pop from Lowe in the second half of 2024.

Lowe put the Rangers on the board in the bottom of the first inning when he sent a two-run homer into the stands off Padres starter Dylan Cease. It was just Lowe’s fifth homer of the season, but the veteran first baseman has now hit safely in three straight games while driving in six runs and homering twice over that span. Lowe got to Cease again in the third inning when he hit another two-run blast to push the Rangers’ lead to 5-0, and now has 33 RBI on the season.

Lowe also doubled. The homer was a two-run shot that got the Rangers back in the game to make it a 5-4 score in the sixth. The 28-year-old has not shown a ton of power thus far in 2024, as his .262 average and .348 on-base percentage have been dragged down by just four roundtrippers and a .369 slugging mark over 214 at-bats.