September 1, 2022 - Game 130
W - Jeurys Familia (2-1)
L - Jonathan Hernández (1-1)
S- None
HR: TEX: García (22) BOS: Verdugo (8)
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Game Recap
Welcome to September. After a long haul in August, the Rangers began the new month with a four-game series at Fenway Park against the Boston Red Sox. Before the game, the Rangers made two moves to accommodate the twenty-eight-man roster by calling up Nick Solak and Jesús Tinoco. Since Tinoco wasn't on the forty-man roster, Texas moved Josh Sborz from the fifteen-day injured list to the sixty-day list. On the mound Thursday, the Rangers sent Glenn Otto to the mound against the Red Sox veteran Rich Hill. It was the same pitching matchup as May 14th when the Red Sox blew out the Rangers 11-3 in Arlington. Otto allowed eight runs in four innings with four walks in that outing, while Hill threw six innings of two earned run baseball that night.
The game went scoreless through two innings. Then in the third, the Rangers had four straight baserunners to begin the inning. Corey Seager singled a dribbler to left field, scoring Bubba Thompson and putting Texas up 1-0. Unfortunately, with the bases loaded and none out, Rich Hill worked out of trouble, getting two pop-outs and a strikeout limiting the damage to one run. In the fourth, Christian Arroyo doubled home Alex Berdugo and Xander Bogaerts to give Boston a 2-1 lead. That inning began with a single, and walks were both scored. The Rangers answered in the fifth with three straight on base to start the inning. Seager doubled Marcus Semien, and Seager scored on an Adolis García force, putting the Rangers up 3-2. Mark Mathias added a run with a bloop single to center field to extend it to a two-run lead.
The Red Sox added a run in the sixth on an Alex Verdugo home run which questioned whether there was fan interference. Umpires called New York, and replay kept the call of a homer to cut the Rangers' lead back to one. Texas then added a couple more with a Kole Calhoun sacrifice fly and a Marcus Semien infield single, putting the Rangers up 6-3. With Lowe on, Adolis García launched a ball over the green monster in left field for a two-run home run, extending the Rangers lead to five. But the Red Sox got the two runs back on a double by Rafael Devers and a single by Arroyo. With the bases loaded, Boston couldn't get the tying run home as Reese McGuire struck out.
Then the ninth inning hit and the Red Sox wasted no time making momentum. After two walks, Bogarts singled and Devers hit a two-run double to cut the lead to one. Then with the bases back loaded, Kiké Hernández tied the game up with a single and former Ranger, Rob Refsnyder won it for Boston with a four-run ninth. A gut-punching loss for Texas on Thursday. "[The walks] didn't set the tone in the ninth inning. Three run lead going to the ninth giving it to your closer [and] you feel good about it," Tony Beasley said. "It just didn't work out tonight."
Glenn Otto went five innings for the second straight outing, but most of the struggles came late in the start. Otto mowed down the Red Sox for three innings, but his first and only walk deteriorated him, and he left in the sixth inning after the Verdugo home run. Otto allowed three runs, four hits, and one walk and struck out eight. "It was good to see Otto have a good start," Beasley said. "He competed well and did a good job. [Otto] put us in a position to win a ballgame, he gave us a chance."
Jesús Tinoco threw two innings allowing two hits and a walk. Fell into a jam in the seventh, but got Reese McGuire to hit into a double play and Tommy Pham to groundout to end that threat. Matt Moore came into the eighth but couldn't finish the inning. He allowed three hits, two runs, and a walk in the inning along with a wild pitch. José Leclerc came in to relieve Moore who struck out two and walked one to keep the Rangers up three. Jonathan Hernández didn't have the command on Thursday. He walked three (one intentional) and four hits scoring four runs which ended the night for the Rangers. It was Jonathan's first blown save as the closer.
Postgame Notes
Texas has lost their twelfth game at Fenway in their last fifteen.
The Rangers have lost four straight games on the first of the month. They are 1-4 this season on first days of the month.
Glenn Otto set a career-high with eight strikeouts Thursday. He had five strikeouts in his last three starts.
In six of the last seven starts, Otto allowed four or fewer hits. He allowed four hits on Thursday.
In nine games with the Rangers, Mark Mathias has an RBI in six of them
Nathaniel Lowe has collected a base hit in 37 of his last 47 games.
Thursday was Bubba Thompson's sixth multi-hit game this season (twenty-four games played)
Thompson has five bunt hits which are tied for the team lead (Eli White)
The loss snaps a four-game winning streak when Glenn Otto takes the mound.
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