Nathan Eovaldi struck out nine in seven scoreless innings Friday night and the visiting Texas Rangers held on to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4.

Eovaldi (8-7) allowed five hits and one walk before leaving with a 5-0 lead.

Justin Foscue hit a two-run home run and had three RBIs for the Rangers, who have two wins to open the four-game series. Wyatt Langford added three hits.

Kazuma Okamoto hit a two-run homer in a four-run eighth for the Blue Jays, who have lost four in a row.

Jacob Latz pitched around a walk in the ninth to earn his 16th save.

Texas scored three in the first against former Ranger Patrick Corbin (2-4). Langford led off with a single and stole second, Josh Jung was hit on the elbow by a pitch and Brandon Nimmo scooped an RBI double into the right field corner. Foscue and Ezequiel Duran added one-out RBI singles.

Jake Burger walked with one out in the third and Foscue homered to left on a 2-1 slider.

Corbin allowed five runs, seven hits and one walk with five strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings.

Eovaldi yielded only a second-inning walk until Vladimir Guerrero Jr. dinked a single to right with one out in the fourth.

Eovaldi retired the next five hitters before Andres Gimenez led off the sixth by lashing a double to right. He took third on a one-out single by Nathan Lukes before Guerrero grounded into a double play.

Toronto left fielder Jesus Sanchez left the game in the seventh with a sprained right ankle, according to manager John Schneider, after crashing into the wall on an inning-ending catch on Nimmo's drive. Hitting for Sanchez, Davis Schneider struck out with one out in the bottom of the seventh with two runners on.

After Spencer Miles pitched 2 2/3 scoreless innings relief for Toronto, Adam Macko pitched around two walks in the eighth. He was recalled from Triple-A Buffalo on Friday with Simeon Woods Richardson designated for assignment.

Robby Ahlstrom allowed a leadoff single to Gimenez in the Toronto eighth and walked George Springer.

Jakob Junis replaced Ahlstrom with one out. After a wild pitch advanced the runners, Guerrero hit a two-run single. Okamoto homered to left on a 1-2 sweeper to cut Toronto's deficit to 5-4, then Junis struck out two of the next three hitters to preserve the lead.