May 25, 2022 - Game 42
W- Glenn Otto (2-2)
L- Reid Detmers (2-2)
S - None
HR: TEX: Garver (6), Calhoun (7)
Time of Game: 2:49
Cowboy Hat Winner: Kole Calhoun (2nd)
Game Recap
The Rangers and Angels concluded a short two-game series in Anaheim Wednesday. Texas saw Angels' starter, Reid Detmers, again after Detmers allowed three runs and three hits in 3.2 innings in his last start. The Rangers brought out Glenn Otto Wednesday to make his second career start against the Angels, the first in Anaheim. Otto came off a solid outing in Houston on Thursday, where he allowed two runs in six innings. "I loved Marcus set the tone right from the beginning," Chris Woodward said after the game.
Marcus Semien led off the game with a single and stole second base. After Corey Seager moved Semien to third, Marcus scored on a Mitch Garver sacrifice fly, giving the Rangers a 1-0 lead early. The Angels, however, squared the game up at one after manufacturing a run themselves. Shohei Ohtani walked, then stole second base and scored on an Anthony Rendon single. The Rangers used their power game in the fourth with two home runs. First, Mitch Garver blasted a ball to left-center field while Kole Calhoun hit a familiar spot in right field. Then, the Rangers put three in the fourth against Angels' starter, Reid Detmers. "I'm starting to get my routine going more and figuring out how to do this thing," Garver said after the game when asked about adjusting to the designated hitter only role. "I watched Nelson Cruz do it for a few years and he's quite impressive."
The Rangers put the bases loaded in the seventh inning against the Angels bullpen. While Marcus Semien is getting closer and closer to a home run, he still drove in a run on a sacrifice fly, followed by Corey Seager adding another run with an RBI single, scoring Brad Miller. Rangers went to the stretch up 6-1, then added a run in the eighth on a Brad Miller single, scoring Kole Calhoun. The Angels got a run in the ninth on a Luis Rengifo RBI groundout off Joe Barlow, but that was all as Barlow finished the night up. "The offensive execution was good," Woodward said. We got guys on base, put pressure on them, [got] four stolen bases. [It's] things we preached a lot and it was cool to get traffic out there."
Glenn Otto had a few sporadic control issues, but his outing Wednesday was great. Otto threw eighty-seven pitches in five innings, walked two, allowed one run on three hits, and struck out seven Angels. "[Otto's] stuff looked really good," It was mid-90s fastball. It looked like it had a lot of life to it," Woodward said. "[He] put hitters away and got the big double play in the fourth inning to get the zero on the board after we scored three."
Dennis Santana pitched a clean sixth inning on thirteen pitches. He got Mike Trout to strike out looking in his outing Wednesday as his lone strikeout. Brock Burke pitched two innings of shut out baseball while allowing a hit and striking out one. It's Burke's fourth outing of his last six where he's had only one strikeout. Barlow allowed two hits to open the ninth, but only allowed one run in his inning of work.
Postgame Notes
The Rangers' offense scored ten runs in their last eleven innings on the road going back to the eighth inning Tuesday. Before that, the offense scored seven runs in their previous fifty-four innings on the road.
Mitch Garver has hit a home run in three straight games for the first time since September 2019.
Kole Calhoun has hit his seventh home run of May. It's the sixth time in his career he's hit seven home runs in one month.
Eli White snapped a 0 for 16 with a seventh-inning single.
Wednesday's start for Glenn Otto was his fourth start on the road. In twenty-six innings pitched on the road, Otto allowed six runs.
Glenn Otto tied a career-high with seven strikeouts. In addition, the seven punch outs Wednesday is a season-high for Otto.
The Rangers are 11-3 on the season when they score first. The Angels have scored the first run in seven of the nine games in 2022.
Sam Huff has a hit in thirteen straight games where he's in the starting lineup dating back to 2020.
Mike Trout struck out four times on Wednesday. It's the eighth time in his career (1328 games) that he punched out four times in one game.
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