The Rangers took the field for the first time under the management of interim head coach Tony Beasley and scrapped their way to a 2-1 win against visiting Oakland on Monday night in Arlington.

Nate Lowe, team first baseman who extended his on-base streak to 20 games in the win, said he was surprised by the announcement of the team parting ways with manager team Chris Woodward.

“There’s a lot of baseball left in this season, and this team has a lot of fight left in it,” he told MLB.com. “But it’s not up to us. We’re the employees, and the brass thought that this was a change that was necessary.”

With 47 games remaining this season, Texas sits in third place in the American League West with a record of 52-63 after last night’s win. This was the first MLB win for Beasley as a manager, though he has been a third base coach with the Rangers since 2015.

“We’ve got to play the brand of baseball that gives us that chance,” Beasley said. “I just want to see the players enjoy the game [and] embrace the culture and the clubhouse embracing each other. Being a Texas Ranger should be something special.”

Glenn Otto took the hill for the Rangers, and though he doled out a high number of walks on the night, he earned the victory (5-8) after tossing six innings of two-hit ball, allowing an earned run, six free-passes to first base, and a single strikeout.

Each team had a solo home run on the scoreboard heading into the middle of the sixth inning after Marcus Semien’s 18th long-fly of the year knotted the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the third.

The middle-infield defense had been iffy the past few games, but Semien fielded two hotshots in the top of the sixth inning, and Otto recorded his first strikeout of the contest and his second 1-2-3 inning.

With the score still knotted at 1-1, James Kaprielian matched Otto’s effort and pitched into the sixth inning. Leody Taveras slapped a Kaprielian pitch into a gap between Oakland outfielders and raced to a stand-up, one-out triple.

The Rangers, who would go 1-for-9 with a runner in scoring position in the win, chased Kaprielian from the contest with the hit as Oakland brought Sam Moll into the game to attempt to keep Taveras at third.

Rookie pinch-hitter Elier Hernandez was next to the dish for Texas and left Taveras at third with the first of two strikeout appearances at the plate. Fellow Rangers Rookie Bubba Thompson, who had peppered the game with defensive outfield gems ahead of his plate appearance, was up next against Moll.

Thompson punched a two-out single to right on a 1-2 fastball past a diving A’s second baseman, driving Taveras home for a 2-1 lead.

Brock Burke spelled Otto on the mound, and the lefty fanned the first batter he faced with a 90 mph fastball.

Taveras ran to the deepest part of the park two batters later and made a jumping catch before cascading into and off the wall. Burke pitched through the eighth inning and earned his seventh hold of the season, setting the table for teammate Jonathan Hernández to eventually earn his fifth save of the season.

Hernandez retired the first batter of the ninth on a grounder, then walked former Ranger Elvis Andrus, bringing up Nick Allen, who had homered off Otto in the third.

Hernandez jumped to a 0-2 on the A’s slugger before Ranger catcher Jonah Heim picked Andrus off while he was attempting to steal second. Hernandez walked Allen but struck out Cal Stevenson for the final out seven pitches later with an 89.8 mph change-up that caught Stevenson looking.

The Rangers are now 7-24 in one-run games this season but winners of three straight for the first time since defeating Houston 5-3 on June 13.

Texas has won four games in a row three times this season and looks to reach that streak a fourth time Tuesday against Oakland, with the first pitch scheduled for 7:05 p.m. at Globe Life Field.

Probable pitchers for the contest are J.P. Sears (3-0, 2.30) for Oakland and Kohei Arihara for Texas. Arihara was 3-6 at AAA Round Rock in 14 starts and boasted an ERA of 4.89 this season. In 2021, the 30-year-old Hiroshima native made his MLB debut with the Rangers and put up a 2-4 record in 10 starts with an ERA of 6.64.