Rangers edge Tigers, 7-6

ARLINGTON, Texas _ A lot of things happened on Tuesday night at Globe Life Park.tmpplchld A lot of them happened early and a lot of them were not good.tmpplchld Detroit Tigers left-hander Daniel Norris threw 54 pitches in the first inning. His defense made two errors. His opponents scored five runs.tmpplchld Rangers left-hander Cole Hamels allowed six runs in the first three innings.tmpplchld It was a hot night in central Texas _ 87 degrees at first pitch _ but just as the barnburner of bad baseball was cooling off in the fourth inning, J.D. Martinez misplayed an Adrian Beltre fly ball down the right-field line.tmpplchld The ball bounced over the wall for a ground-rule double, Shin-Soo Choo scored and nobody else did the rest of the way the Rangers’ 7-6 win in the second game of a three-game set.tmpplchld Norris didn’t last long, throwing 71 pitches in 12/3 innings, both well short of his pitch limit heading into the game and the distance the Tigers needed.tmpplchld The rookie allowed six runs _ two earned _ on five hits. He walked one and struck out none.tmpplchld After Ian Kinsler missed a Delino DeShields line drive to open the game, Choo hit a two-run home run. After a single, walk and wild pitch, Jefry Marte missed a routine pop-up at first base to allow another run.tmpplchld Norris then recorded his first out of the inning before allowing another on a sacrifice fly and another on a triple from Rougned Odor.tmpplchld The Tigers closed the gap by coming around on Hamels, who was hit hard early and often, and tied the game, 6-6, on a Dixon Machado double in the third inning.tmpplchld There were a couple of good moments for the Tigers.tmpplchld In the first inning, Martinez hit his 38th home run of the season, a two-run shot to right-center field. In the second inning, Bryan Holaday hit his second. Rajai Davis singled home a run later that inning and so, too, did Marte in the third inning but Hamels settled from there.tmpplchld He threw six innings, allowing six runs _ all earned _ on seven hits with eight strikeouts and two walks.tmpplchld The Tigers bullpen was good, too, allowing one run on four hits in 61/3 innings, but their defense was not. They committed four errors, tied for the most made by any team this season.tmpplchld But one of those errors was not charged to Martinez, who short-armed a fly ball on the bad game’s deciding play.tmpplchld ___tmpplchld (c)2015 Detroit Free Presstmpplchld Visit the Detroit Free Press at www.freep.comtmpplchld Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.tmpplchld