Kelly's dominant effort helps Diamondbacks roll over Rangers to tie World Series

Merrill Kelly pitched three-hit ball over seven innings, Ketel Marte extended his post-season hitting streak to a record 18 games and the Arizona Diamondbacks routed the Texas Rangers 9-1 on Saturday night to even the World Series at one game apiece.

Gabriel Moreno hit a go-ahead homer in a two-run fourth against Jordan Montgomery, and Tommy Pham went 4 for 4 with a pair of doubles as the young Diamondbacks rebounded quickly from an agonizing defeat the night before.

Marte added a two-run single in a three-run eighth, breaking a tie for the longest post-season hitting streak with Derek Jeter, Manny Ramirez and Hank Bauer. Marte has a hit in every post-season game he's ever played.

A night after wasting a two-run, ninth-inning lead in a 6-5, 11-inning loss, the Diamondbacks outhit Texas 16-4 and never trailed. The 16 hits marked the most in a Series game in nine years.

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Emmanuel Rivera also had a two-run single, and rookie Corbin Carroll had a pair of RBI singles. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and 38-year-old Evan Longoria each singled in a run for Arizona, which got its first World Series road win after four losses dating to 2001.

The Series, just the third between wild-card teams, shifts to Arizona for Game 3 on Monday in the first Series game at Phoenix since 2001.

Kelly struck out nine, walked none and went to just one three-ball count, allowing his only run on Mitch Garver's leadoff homer in the fifth.

"I thought he might go nine innings today at one point," Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. "But for that to happen, 89 pitches, you've got to jump him up probably another 35. I wasn't going to let him throw 120