July 30, 2022 - Game 100
W - Touki Toussaint (1-0)
L - Brett Martin (0-7)
S- Raisel Iglesias (16)
HR: TEX: Semien (14), Viloria (1); LAA: Ohtani (22)
Time of Game: 3:04
Game Recap
Saturday, the Rangers had a chance to do something they hadn't done in July, win a series on the road. After taking the first two against the Angels, Texas faced off against Los Angeles' rookie, Chase Silseth. Meantime, the Rangers sent Glenn Otto to the mound coming off an okay start against the Mariners in Seattle. Silseth made his first start against the Texas Rangers Saturday and his seventh start of his young Major League career. "We didn't execute at the end there," Rangers manager Chris Woodward said. "We had them right where we wanted them and had it lined up, but we didn't execute."
Like Friday, the offenses went quiet through two innings, but in the third, things opened up for both sides. With two on, Nathaniel Lowe pulled a single to right field scoring Elier Hernández. Then Adolis GarcÃa beat the shift with a single to right, scoring Jonah Heim and putting the Rangers up 2-0. In the bottom of the inning, Glenn Otto hit Phil Gosselin (who left the game) and allowed a hit to the bottom of the order. Shohei Ohtani capped off the inning with a three-run blast to center field to put the Angels up 3-2. It was the Angels' first lead of the series. However, Texas countered back with a three-run home run by Marcus Semien, taking advantage of their walks, and the Rangers took a 5-3 lead.
The Angels got a run in the fifth inning on a Max Stassi single, scoring Taylor Ward and cutting the Rangers' lead to 5-4. Then, in the sixth, Meibrys Viloria launched a two-run home run to center field to pad Texas' lead back to 7-4. Things got quiet until the eighth when the Angels got two runs on a David Fletcher double scoring Stassi and Brandon Marsh. Then a wild pitch by Brett Martin scored Fletcher followed by a Luis Rengifo two-run double to give the Angels the lead 9-7 through eight innings. Texas had the tying run at second, but Adolis GarcÃa's flyout just missed going out and the Rangers lose a heartbreaker Saturday. "Brett couldn't finish people off," Rangers manager Chris Woodward said. "[He] couldn't execute the pitch at the end."
Glenn Otto was good for the first two innings but, in the third, ran into command issues. He hit Gosselin and allowed a hit to Andrew Velazquez, which set up the home run by Ohtani. Otto hit two batters and walked three Saturday, allowing four runs on four hits. Glenn struck out five. José Leclerc came in for a multi-inning relief outing and retired six of the seven hitters he faced. Leclerc walked one and struck out one.
Dennis Santana entered and struck out Jo Adell. However, he allowed a single, a walk, and a double resulting in two runs and Santana was tagged for three total on the night. Brett Martin came in and retired the first batter but threw a wild pitch, a walk, an intentional walk, and a two-run go-ahead double on his ledger. "You see guys having success right and the guys that aren't. [It's] their ability to execute every pitch is critical in those moments," Woodward said.
Postgame Notes
The Rangers bullpen suffered their twenty-seventh loss of the season, most in MLB.
Glenn Otto is one of nine pitchers who have hit nine or more batters (Dane Dunning is one of them. However, he is one of two who've thrown less than one hundred innings (Steve Cishek of the Nationals is the other).
The Angels' Chase Silseth's five runs allowed are the most in his young Major League career. Silseth allowed four runs twice.
Josh Smith walked three times for the first time in his MLB career. Additionally, he walked three or more times in the minor leagues. The last was May 11th with Round Rock against the Oklahoma City Dodgers.
Meibrys Viloria hit his second MLB home run on Saturday. His other came on August 5th, 2019, with the Royals at Boston.
The four earned runs by Glenn Otto tie the season high for most runs allowed in a road start. The other came on July 1st in New York against the Mets.
The Rangers walked seven times for the second time this season. The only other time was April 10th at Toronto and the seven team walks ties a season high.
Marcus Semien has reached in eleven straight games against opponents excluding the Seattle Mariners.
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