May 8, 2022 - Game 25
W - Clay Holmes (3-0)
L - John King (1-1)
S - None
HR: TEX: K. Calhoun (1) NYY: Torres (4)
Time of Game: 2:54
Game Recap
The Rangers played their first game on Sunday since Wednesday's extra-inning victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. With a scheduled off day and two rainouts, both the Rangers and Yankees were without baseball for nearly 84 hours (an All-Star break, as Rangers manager Chris Woodward described). "We were able on the off days to at least throw, workout, and train a little bit," Brock Burke told me before the game. "It's the same thing with the other team, too; they've had three off days with nothing to do as well."
The Rangers' offense put pressure on Gerrit Cole to begin the first game. After a twenty-five-pitch first inning and a twenty-two-second inning, the Rangers had four at-bats with runners in scoring position. Unfortunately, Texas couldn't capitalize on any of the opportunities. Nevertheless, Cole settled in and held the Rangers to one hit between the third and sixth innings (an infield hit by Marcus Semien in the sixth). Once Judge reached base, Anthony Rizzo flicked an opposite-field single, moving Judge to third. Giancarlo Stanton drove in the game's first run on a sacrifice fly following the Rizzo single. Off the bat, it looked like a home run, but the cold swirling winds knocked it down for a sac fly. Texas answered immediately with a Kole Calhoun home run (355 feet) that snuck by the right-field line, ending the afternoon for Gerrit Cole.
Dane Dunning continued where he left off eight days ago in his outing against Atlanta. Dane had a few command issues with walking back-to-back hitters in the fourth inning but received help defensively on a great unassisted double play by Andy Ibáñez. However, the infield defense struggled in the fifth with a throwing error by Ibáñez and a fielding error by third baseman Brad Miller. Dane threw five scoreless and hitless innings, and then Aaron Judge broke up the no-hitter bid with an infield single down the third baseline. "Couple of starts ago everything was going against me and now this time everything was going with me," Dane Dunning told me as the wind played with his stuff two weeks ago against Houston. "The sinkers would be seventeen inches of horizonal [were] twenty-two inches of horizontal. I was getting more sink and more run."
Matt Bush ran into trouble in the seventh with a single and an error, but Bush got Hicks to strike out. Dennis Santana entered the eighth against Aaron Judge, where Judge flew out. However, the Yankees couldn't capitalize with second and third and one out. John King pitched a scoreless eighth inning but allowed an infield single. King came out in the ninth inning, but Gleyber Torres burned King on a home run to win it for New York. "We didn't play great defense behind [Dane] and any of our guys," Chris Woodward said after the game. "Our guys battled, they threw some pretty good arms at us. We have to find a way to scratch one across there."
Postgame Notes
For the second time in his MLB career, Dane Dunning threw 100 pitches (102 on 9/15/2020 w/ the White Sox vs. Minnesota).
Dunning is on a stretch where he's allowed three runs in his last 17.1 innings.
Kole Calhoun hit his first home run as a Texas Ranger.
Marcus Semien has multi-hit games in all three games on this road trip and in four straight road games.
Before the Giancarlo Stanton sacrifice fly, the Rangers and their opposition (Phillies / Yankees) went 15½ scoreless innings on innings not started with a runner at second base.
On Mothers' Day, the Rangers have sent Dane Dunning to the mound in back-to-back seasons. In the two starts, Dunning combined for eleven innings, eight hits, three runs, six walks, and fifteen strikeouts (2.45 ERA).
Game 1 on Sunday was the Rangers' second three-error game of the season. The other came on April 17 against the Angels (Texas lost 8-3).
Nathaniel Lowe struck out four times in game one. It was his first four-strikeout game as a Ranger, but he had two as a Tampa Bay Ray. They were July 7, 2019, against the Yankees and September 13, 2020, against the Red Sox.
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