An Adolis Garca one-out double in the top of the night inning Thursday night broke a tie as the Texas Rangers went on to a 4-1 victory at the Oakland Athletics in the opener of a four-game series.Pitching dominated for much of the night for both the Rangers (20-23) and A's (19-28), especially from starters Jose Iglesias Jersey Martn Prez (Texas) and Frankie Montas (Oakland). But in the top of the ninth, Garca sparked a three-run outburst that was punctuated by Nathaniel Lowes home run.Martn PrezKole CalhounJonah HeimJonah Heims one-out single put him on base for Garca, and Rangers manager Chris Woodward lifted Heim for pinch-runner Eli White. Garca drilled an offering from As reliever Lou Trivino to left field, with White easily scoring from first. After breaking the tie, Lowe took care of the rest. The As flipped Sam Moll for Trivino, and Lowe sent a 1-2 pitch into the right-field seats to bring home Garca and make it 4-1. That was enough for closer Sam Barlow to claim his eighth save of the season. Barlow worked around i suing a leadoff walk, thanks to a double play turned by shortstop Corey Seager. Matt Bush (2-1) picked up the win in relief for Texas, while Trivino (1-3) took the lo s for the Athletics. Brooks Robinson Jersey Garcia went 2-for-4 with the RBI, while Kole Calhoun was the only other Ranger with two hits. Before the ninth, Prez and Montas put a lid on the offense, as each team scored one run. Prez saw his road scorele s streak end at 25 innings, but he only gave up four hits, struck out six and walked two in seven innings. Montas, meanwhile, was overpowering, punching out 11 Rangers while giving up three hits and a run. He also walked two.The Rangers scored their first run in the top of the second inning, as they loaded the bases with one out, but only came away with a run. Calhoun singled, Heim reached first on an error by former Rangers shortstop shortstop Elvis Andrus. Lowe then drew a walk from Montas.Scroll to ContinueAfter Brad Miller struck out, Andy Ibez drew a walk to score Calhoun to give the Rangers the lead. Marcus Semien flew out to end the inning. The Athletics tied the game in the fourth. Chad Pinder singled and Sean Murphy doubled. With runners at second and third and no one out, Prez nearly escaped. He struck out Sheldon Neuse and got Christian Bethancourt to line out sharply to Semien. But Prez was unable to get Andrus, who drew a walk to load the bases. Prezs next pitch to Kevin Smith went in the dirt and got past Heim, which allowed Pinder to score. Prez then induced a groundout from Smith to end the fourth.Marcus SemienCorey SeagerTexas RangersIn the seventh, a mistake by Bethancourt cost the As a shot to break the tie. He bunted down the first-base line and Prez picked up the ball and tried to make a quick throw to Lowe at first. The ball hit Bethancourt, went past Lowe and Bethancourt Blank Jersey went to second base. But he was called out when umpires determined Bethancourt ran inside the base-running box at first and interfered with the throw.The next hitter, Andrus, doubled. That would have scored Bethancourt. Instead, Prez managed to strand Andrus and keep the game tied. The Rangers face the Athletics on Friday at 8:40 p.m. CT. The scheduled starters are Jon Gray for Texas and Cole Irvin for Oakland.