Jonah Heim delivered a decisive three-run homer, and Andrew Heaney threw five scoreless innings while allowing just two hits, leading the Texas Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday. This win prevented the Rangers from being swept in their three-game series against the Orioles, a rematch of last year’s postseason.

Anthony Santander narrowed the deficit with his 27th home run and third of the series, a two-run blast in the eighth inning. Despite this, Texas managed to hold on for the win and concluded their season with a 2-5 record against the Orioles. Last year, the Rangers swept Baltimore in the AL Division Series on their way to winning their first World Series title.

Earlier in the season, the Orioles had won three of four games against Texas at home, with the Rangers salvaging the final game of that series as well.

“The last thing you want is to get swept at home,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy noted. “They dominated us in the first two games, so we were focused on stopping that.”

Heaney (4-10) walked three and struck out four in what was his 14th consecutive start allowing three or fewer earned runs. This streak, the longest of his career, has lowered his ERA from 6.26 to 3.60.

In the fifth inning, Bochy visited the mound with two outs and Heaney’s pitch count at 95 after a double by Gunnar Henderson. Heaney’s 100th pitch resulted in Adley Rutschman grounding out to third base.

“He (Bochy) just came out to check on him but kept getting interrupted while trying to get the scouting report,” said Heim, the catcher. “I thought it was pretty amusing and tried to lighten the mood and get everyone on the same page.”

Heim was in a 1-for-17 slump when he put Texas ahead 3-0 with two outs in the fourth, pulling the first pitch from Dean Kremer, an 85 mph splitter that stayed in the middle of the plate, into the Texas bullpen in right-center field. Wyatt Langford and Nathaniel Lowe had walked.

Kremer (4-6) allowed three runs on five hits and three walks with two strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings. It was the right-hander’s first appearance against the Rangers since giving up six runs in 1 2/3 innings in his postseason debut last October in the Rangers’ ALDS-clinching 7-1 victory at home.

“I thought Dean was good. The two-out walk to Lowe hurt before the homer,” Baltimore manager Brandon Hyde said. “But I thought he had good stuff and just made kind of a bad pitch to Heim.”

Josh Sborz struck out three in his second consecutive two-inning outing after missing nearly two months in his second stint on the injured list this season with a right rotator cuff strain.