After Pierzynski's first homer forTexas, a two-out solo shot in the fourth that made it 2-1, Mitch Moreland pulled a 428-foot shot deep into the Texas bullpen in right-center field.
Wholesale beef prices have risen as meatpackers seek to pass along the higher costs they have been paying for cattle after droughts the past two summers in Texas, Oklahoma and other big cattle-ranching states.