August 19, 2022 - Game 119
W - Dylan Bundy (7-5)
L - MartÃn Pérez (9-4)
S- Jorge López (22)
HR: MIN: Arráez (7), Miranda (13)
Time of Game: 2:54
Game Recap
After a depleting four-game series against the Oakland Athletics, the Rangers traveled to Minneapolis to take on the Minnesota Twins. Friday started the first of a four-game wrap-around series against the Twins. Before the game, the Rangers made a roster move by placing Joe Barlow on the injured list with another blister issue. To correspond, Texas called up AJ Alexy from Triple-A Round Rock. Friday was MartÃn Pérez Day for Texas, and for the second time this season, MartÃn saw the Minnesota Twins. On July 9th, Pérez battled for six innings after the Twins roughed him up in the fourth inning for six runs. Meanwhile, the Rangers faced Dylan Bundy, who also struggled against the opposition on July 10th. Texas got to Bundy for four runs in five innings. "I felt like we had a lot of misfortune tonight," Rangers interim manager Tony Beasley said. "I was pleased with the fight and the way the guys came out and competed tonight. We just had misfortune."
The Twins quickly blasted for two home runs in the opening inning against MartÃn. Luis Arráez and José Miranda went deep to put Minnesota up 2-0 after one. Adolis GarcÃa singled in the second inning, and Marcus Semien walked in the third to accumulate the two baserunners through five innings for the Rangers. The Twins drew two walks in the fifth, but MartÃn struck out the side in the inning to keep the Rangers in the game. In the sixth, Nathaniel Lowe singled home Bubba Thompson to cut the Twins' lead to 2-1. Thompson stole second base, which set up the RBI single.
Texas had an opportunity to tie the game up in the seventh. They had runners at the corners with two outs, but Bubba flew out to deep center field corralled by Byron Buxton, and the threat was over. In the ninth inning, Jonah Heim and Leody Taveras walked to set up Brad Miller with two on and two out. Miller hit a line shot to right field, but right fielder, Max Kepler threw to second base and doubled off pinch runner Charlie Culberson. Rangers called upon replay, but the review didn't take long. The Rangers fell another one-run game 2-1 to the Minnesota Twins Friday. "I feel like CHarlie was trying to make sure he had a good enough jump so he could score," Beasley said. "When he looks at it, he's going to recognize that he probably couldn't have scored on that ball anyhow. He got out a little too far and couldn't get back."
After a rough start, MartÃn Pérez brought ace-like stuff on Friday. Pérez walked three and allowed five hits but struck out seven. He gave up the two homers in the first inning but ended up going six innings against the Twins. "I was pleased with his outing," Beasley said. "Just didn't get those two [first inning] pitches exactly where he wanted them but he did settle in. [He] put up zeros after that and kept us in the ball game and gave us a chance to win. We just came up a little short." Brock Burke pitched a rare one inning on Friday. He didn’t strike out a batter but retired the Twins in order. José Leclerc threw a scoreless eighth inning with one strikeout on Friday.
Postgame Notes
Adolis GarcÃa extended his hitting streak on Friday to sixteen games with a single in the second inning.
In three starts against his former teams, MartÃn Pérez has a 3.00 ERA with six walks, nineteen strikeouts, and four home runs in eighteen innings.
In eighteen starts with Jonah Heim, MartÃn has a 3.00 ERA (114 innings). Heim is one of four catchers that Pérez has an ERA of 3.00 or lower (Meibrys Viloria with one start, Chris Gimenez with six starts, and Yorvit Torrealba with three starts).
MartÃn Pérez struck out six or more in six of his last seven starts.
Luis Arráez is the first left-hander hitter to hit a home run off MartÃn Pérez this season.
Bubba Thompson extended his hitting streak to seven games. Thompson has a base hit in ten of the fourteen games he’s played in.
The Rangers are 7-25 in one-run games.
With his start at shortstop at Target Field, Corey Seager has played in all thirty active MLB ballparks.
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