DENVER -- Rougned Odor and Jurickson Profar had discussed double steals before. So when both reached base in the ninth inning, they pulled one off exactly as planned.Elvis Andrus brought them home with a two-run single, Mitch Moreland delivered a tiebreaking double and the Texas Rangers scored three times in the ninth to beat the Colorado Rockies 4-3 on Monday night.We made eye contact and went, Odor said.With two runners in scoring position, Andrus single tied it 3-all. Moreland then sent Andrus home with a double before he was thrown out stretching at third.We look for opportunities like that, Rangers manager Jeff Banister. Weve been aggressive with baserunners all year long.Texas, which has won three straight and eight of 11, improved to 4-3 on its eight-game road trip. The teams conclude a two-game series in Colorado on Tuesday before heading to Texas to begin another two-game set Wednesday.Tyler Anderson allowed two hits in seven innings for Colorado, but Carlos Estevez (2-7) was handed his fifth blown save in the ninth.Tyler was great once again, Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. Always tough when you lose games late, no question.Nolan Arenado homered for the third time in two days and drove in two runs for the Rockies. David Dahl had a pinch-hit single in the ninth to extend his hitting streak to 14 games.Rockies slugger Carlos Gonzalez exited in the second with left ankle inflammation. Gonzalez sat out two games last week after spraining his ankle on a groundout in Wednesdays 12-2 win over the Dodgers.During the warmup I started feeling a little tight, Gonzalez said. When I was running down the line I felt really bad.Colorado has lost four of five.Cole Hamels yielded two runs in six innings for Texas. He avoided losing back-to-back starts for the first time since 2014 thanks to the Rangers late rally. The left-hander struck out six and walked one.Anderson gave up one hit through six scoreless innings before Adrian Beltre homered to center field on his first pitch of the seventh, cutting Colorados lead to 2-1. Anderson retired the next three batters, and Adam Ottavino stranded runners at the corners with a strikeout of Jonathan Lucroy in the eighth to extend his scoreless streak to 26 1/3 innings.Charlie Blackmon had an RBI single in the third. Arenado, who leads the National League in home runs (30) and RBI (89), homered in the fourth and hit an RBI single in the eighth off winner Keone Kela (3-1).Moreland provided the decisive hit off the right-field wall in the ninth.My mindset is were always in the game, he said.NEXT UP FOR 3,000?After Ichiro Suzuki became the 30th member of the 3,000-hit club on Sunday at Coors Field, the 37-year-old Beltre is next on the active list with 2,880 and counting.TRAINERS ROOMRangers: DH/OF Carlos Beltran was out of the starting lineup for the second consecutive day with a bruised left quadriceps. The 39-year-old slugger walked as a pinch-hitter in the eighth.Rockies: OF Gerardo Parra pinch-hit for Gonzalez in the second and stayed in the game. Parra (ankle) came off the 15-day disabled list Sunday.UP NEXTRangers: RHP A.J. Griffin (5-1, 4.05 ERA) is 2-0 with a 3.31 ERA in his last three starts. 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With their top three point guards and Kobe Bryant all sidelined by injury, the Lakers signed Marshall out of the D-League on Friday before their home game against Minnesota. DENVER -- Charlie Blackmon and DJ LeMahieu had big nights at the plate for Colorado. Still, the struggling Rockies were unable to stop their skid.Jayson Werth and Wilson Ramos homered, Bryce Harper doubled in the go-ahead run and the Washington Nationals beat Colorado 5-4 on Monday night.We are dealing with multiple challenges at the same time right now, but the bottom line is you have to win games, Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. We are fighting, but we are coming up short.LeMahieu had four hits and Blackmon hit his sixth home run in four games. The outfielder was selected the NL player of the week after leading the majors with seven home runs last week.Yet the Rockies have lost eight of nine.We are battling so hard and we dont have a whole lot to show for it the last couple weeks, LeMahieu said.Werth hit a two-run homer in the third inning off Rockies starter Jorge De La Rosa and reached safely three times to extend his on-base streak to a career-best 43 games.The stretch is the longest in the majors this season and it ties Werth with Ryan Zimmerman for the Nationals record.Washingtons bullpen, meanwhile, pitched five scoreless innings. Sammy Solis (2-3) got the win and Colorado-native Mark Melancon needed only four pitches in the ninth for his 34th save in 37 chances.The NL East leaders have won three straight and four of five.Our bullpen came in and bailed each other out, Nationals manager Dusty Baker said. Its hard to shut these guys out for the last four or five innings of a ballgame.Nationals ace Max Scherzer allowed seven hits and four runs in four innings.Colorado scored three in a 35-ppitch first inning.dddddddddddd. David Dahl hit a two-run double with the bases loaded and Daniel Descalso added a sacrifice fly.Blackmon made it 4-2 with his homer in the fourth.It would have been nice to get this homestand started off right, LeMahieu said. Scherzer is a really good pitcher and we knew we were in for a battle. We did about as well as we could do off him, putting up four runs in four innings.Daniel Murphy hit an RBI single in the fifth, Ramos connected for a tying homer in the sixth and Harper hit his second double of the night in the seventh to give Washington a 5-4 lead.Jordan Lyles (3-4) took the loss.WITH HONORSBlackmon also led the majors with a .563 batting average and 42 total bases last week. In seven games, he topped the NL with nine RBI and a .600 on-base percentage.Chuck is having a great year, Weiss said. He is one of those guys who just continues to get better and I think that is directly related to his work ethic.TRAINERS ROOMRHP Tyler Chatwood (back spasms) could skip his next start or be placed on the 15-day disabled list, Weiss said. ... 1B Mark Reynolds (hand) had surgery to remove a fractured hook of the hamate bone in his left hand.UP NEXTNationals: LHP Gio Gonzalez (8-9, 4.24 ERA) is 2-0 with a 3.75 ERA in two August starts. He has struck out 12 and walked two in 12 innings.Rockies: RHP Chad Bettis (10-6, 5.27) hasnt lost a start since July 2. In his last one, he gave up five runs over five innings in 100-plus-degree heat in Texas. ' ' '