July 31, 2022 - Game 101
W - Brock Burke (5-2)
L - José Quijada (0-3)
S- Jonathan Hernández (1)
HR: None
Time of Game: 2:56
Rangers Cowboy Hat Winner: Ezequiel Duran (3rd)
Game Recap
The Rangers concluded July and their eleven-game road trip on Sunday against the Angels. After a tough loss on Saturday, the Rangers could win their second series of the season and return the April favor when the Angels won three of four in Arlington. Texas got a look from Reid Detmers for the fourth time in 2022. Also, the Rangers brought out Dane Dunning for a start on Sunday with his second start since the injury. Dunning went five innings and allowed two runs on Tuesday against the Mariners. "[Dunning] was good. I thought he did a good job for us," Rangers manager Chris Woodward said. "We wanted to make sure he used all of his pitches and he was doing that in his last outing in Seattle. He managed the at-bats, got a lot of weak contact [and] used his pitches well."
Nathaniel Lowe singled home Marcus Semien to get things going for the Rangers. Unfortunately, the Angels countered in the bottom of the first to even the game at one after one inning. Reid Detmers threw an immaculate inning in the following inning, striking out Ezequiel Duran, Kole Calhoun, and Charlie Culberson on nine pitches. It was the third time the Rangers were victims of an immaculate inning, which the other two came on June 15th. The Angels took the lead in the bottom of the second with a sacrifice fly by Andrew Velazquez, scoring Max Stassi.
Texas tied the game up in the fifth inning. Angel Stadium left field took another victim as Charlie Culberson lined a ball into that corner. Brandon Marsh misplayed, and Culberson went from second to third on the error and scored on the sacrifice fly by Elier Hernández. In the seventh inning against Brock Burke, the Angels had two on with two outs, and Luis Rengifo lined out to Leody Taveras. Taveras made a couple of great plays running down baseballs to save a run in the seventh. In the ninth, the Rangers loaded the bases with an infield hit and two walks. Off the Angels closer Raisel Iglesias, Duran cleared the bases with a three-run double to right center, putting Texas up 5-2 and sealing the win Sunday. "The kid has no fear," Woodward said about Ezequiel Duran. "This kid thinks he's the best player on the planet and got a big hit for us."
Dane Dunning started out scuffling in the first two innings. Four of the seven hits allowed by Dane came in the first two innings, with one of the three walks mixed in. After that, Dunning allowed two runs, both coming in the first two innings, as Dane lasted to six innings Sunday. Brock Burke ran into a little issue in the seventh with a hit and a walk. However, Burke struck out four in his two innings of work preserving the tie game. Jonathan Hernández came in to close and pick up his first MLB save in the ninth. Hernández retired the side, but a Phil Gosselin broken bat hit Jonathan in the leg. He stayed in and finished the game out securing the series win and picked up his first North America save. "I will say I'm almost back, almost," Hernández said in response to if he feels his stuff is fully back from Tommy John surgery. "It's getting better every time I pitch. That means I'm improving on the power so I'm just happy with the work that I put in those fifteen months and now it's paying off."
Postgame Notes
The Rangers finish 10-17 in July. On the eleven-game road trip, they finished 5-6.
Reid Detmers threw the third immaculate inning in Angels history. The other two were Nolan Ryan and Garrett Richards, both eventually becoming Texas Rangers later in their careers.
Ezequiel Duran has been a part of all three immaculate innings against the Rangers this season. Duran started in twenty-six games in 2022.
Dane Dunning has allowed a first-inning run in four of his last six starts.
Detmers set a career-high with twelve strikeouts. His previous career high was seven on July 7th against the Orioles. Reid has only struck out ten or more batters once in 2022 (June 29th with the Salt Lake Bees, he struck out fourteen).
Dunning has allowed two runs in back-to-back road starts. Previous to that, Dane had allowed two total runs (unearned and earned) in only two road starts all season (May 8th at the Yankees and June 29th at the Royals).
In his last sixteen games, Kole Calhoun is 5 for 46 (.109) with twenty-six strikeouts.
Marcus Semien picked up his one-hundredth career stolen base with his steal in the first inning.
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