June 15, 2022 - Game 62
W- Luis García (4-5)
L- Tyson Miller (0-1)
S - None
HR: TEX: Seager (13); HOU: Maldonado(5), Gurriel (4)
Time of Game: 2:45
Game Recap
The Rangers and Astros concluded a three-game series and a quick home stand for Texas Wednesday. Announced earlier in the day, Texas went with Tyson Miller for the start Wednesday. Miller pitched 2.1 shutout innings on Friday after the quick call-up due to Glenn Otto going to the COVID-IL. Meantime, the Astros sent out Luis García to the hill Wednesday. The Rangers looked to take a series from Houston for the first time since May of 2021 (six straight series losses), but from the first pitch, it didn't look promising on the day. "Not fun the last two days," Brad Miller said. "Today was a grind and they jumped on us from the beginning."
On the game's second pitch, Miller hit José Altuve with a pitch. From then on, it got worse and worse. After a Michael Brantley single, Jonah Heim passed ball, and Alex Bregman walked, Yordan Alvarez doubled to score two runs. Kyle Tucker followed with an RBI groundout to make it a 3-0 Houston lead. Ezequiel Duran made a heck of a play to record the second out of the inning, but the inning continued with more traffic. José Siri singled to left field, scoring Alvarez, and Martín Maldonado doubled to cap off a six-run first inning for the Houston Astros. "Tyson was a little off," Chris Woodward said. "[He] wasn't commanding the baseball at all. [He] fell behind and couldn't get much swing and miss."
In the bottom of the first, the Rangers got a run back, all with two outs. An error by Aledmys Diaz scored Adolis García after Adolis stole second base. In the third, Corey Seager hit a low line shot that scraped the seats in right field, cutting the Astros lead to 6-2. However, Maldonado answered with a homer off Kolby Allard leading off the fourth inning. Offenses settled for the next three innings until the Astros picked up two runs on a Yuli Gurriel home run. It scraped the wall in left field. The Rangers needed reinforcements in the ninth inning. Therefore, they brought in Charlie Culberson for another scoreless outing. At the end of the day, that was the most exciting thing to happen for the Rangers Wednesday.
Tyson Miller's first Rangers start didn't go OK Wednesday. Miller couldn't get out of the first inning and allowed six runs, four hits, two walks, and hit a batter. Tyson threw thirty-nine pitches. Texas brought in Jesus Tinoco to finish the first with two extra innings. He continued his success with 2.1 of scoreless baseball. Tinoco struck out one in the eight batters faced. "I felt good because I don't think I threw many pitches," Jesus said after the game when I asked if he possibly ran out of gas as he hadn't thrown two plus innings all year in triple-A. "[I'm] trying to keep in my mind to throw more innings I can to help the bullpen."
Kolby Allard pitched five innings and allowed five hits, three runs, and struck out four Astros. Rangers needed length from Kolby and they got it from him (fifty-eight pitches). Culberson threw eleven pitches in his three up and three down inning.
Postgame Notes
Luis García and Phil Maton both pitched immaculate innings (García in the second and Maton in the seventh). It's the first time in MLB history to have two immaculate innings in the same game. It also came against the same three Rangers hitters Nathaniel Lowe, Ezequiel Duran, Brad Miller).
Wednesday was the shortest start by Tyson Miller since July 24, 2019, with the Iowa Cubs against San Antonio. He also pitched two-thirds of an inning that day.
Corey Seager leads all MLB shortstops with thirteen home runs.
The Rangers are 0-6 on weekday day games (3 pm CST starts or earlier).
Kolby Allard pitched his longest outing in the Majors on Wednesday.
The Rangers are 15-23 against right-handed starters.
Ezequiel Duran extended his hitting streak to five games. He has at least one extra-base hit in four of the five games.
Charlie Culberson has thrown six straight scoreless outings after his 1-2-3 inning Wednesday.
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