August 12, 2022 - Game 112
W - George Kirby (4-3)
L - Taylor Hearn (5-7)
S- None
HR: None
Time of Game: 3:44
Game Recap
The Rangers came home and began a three-game series against the Seattle Mariners starting Friday. With Spencer Howard on the injured list, it was a designated bullpen game for Texas, starting with Josh Sborz. Per Rangers manager Chris Woodward, the plan was, to begin with, Sborz and then go to Taylor Hearn with the game dictating how the bullpen would shake up.
Both teams went scoreless after two innings. Mitch Haniger made a terrific catch in the second to double off Nathaniel Lowe at first base. Then in the third inning, Seattle got on the board on an RBI groundout by Ty France, scoring JP Crawford. The Rangers answered back in the bottom of the inning when Marcus Semien drove in Ezequiel Duran with a groundout. It evened the game at one. The Mariners retook the lead in the fourth inning on Julio Rodríguez’s two-run single, scoring Carlos Santana and Adam Frazier. Then some yelling occurred at the bottom of the fourth. Home plate umpire Jerry Meals ejected Rangers manager Chris Woodward after a pitch on Adolis García clearly way out of the zone was called a strike. "I know how hard it is to umpire, but when it's clearly one-sided [and] it cost a lot today," "The missed calls cost some runs," Rangers manager Chris Woodward said on his ejection. "I know [umpires] aren't going to be perfect, but when I feel like it's one-sides when calls are going against us and not for us, I have to do what i can to keep that from continuing, and it was so blatant early on."
Jonah Heim singled up the middle in the sixth inning, scoring Corey Seager and cutting the Seattle lead to 3-2. Unfortunately, Leody Taveras struck out against Matt Brash, and the Rangers stranded two runners on base. Seattle picked up a run on a Crawford sacrifice fly where it looked like three pitches before a Matt Moore pitch struck him out looking. The Mariners added two more in the ninth on Eugenio's Suárez's RBI double that scored two runs. The second run scored on a Corey Seager error and Seattle extended their lead to 6-2. The Rangers went down quietly in the ninth as the club fell in another contest to the Mariners Friday. "I think we're not doing enough to win games," Brad Miller told me when I asked about the margin of error. "It's the big leagues so its' tough to win games. Other teams on the schedule are good, but I think we have an incredibly talented team we just haven't done enough to win games."
Josh Sborz gave up a base hit in the first, but a 100 MPH rocket hit Sborz around the arm area. After that, Josh did not give up a run in the first. "[Sborz] took it like a champ, but we have to wait and see tomorrow," Woodward said about Sborz. "It's sore. Not the best spot to get hit especially when you get hit in the arm. We have to wait and see tomorrow how he feels."
Then Taylor Hearn took over in the second and threw 2.2 innings. He allowed three runs, three walks, one strikeout, and three hits. All three walks touched the zone according to pitch trackers, and two could have been strike three calls. José Leclerc finished the fourth inning and pitched the fifth and sixth. The only hit José allowed was the Julio single that drove in two while walking one in his 2.1 innings Friday. Leclerc struck out three on his ledger. Brett Martin pitched a scoreless seventh inning allowing only one hit. Matt Moore threw an inning allowing one run, two hits, and a walk (though another missed strike three call in the inning). Jonathan Hernández finished the night allowing an earned run (two total runs) on three hits while striking out a batter.
Postgame Notes
Texas has dropped twelve of fourteen to the Mariners in 2022.
Nathaniel Lowe extends his on-base streak to eighteen with a single in the second.
Fifteen of Julio Rodríguez’s fifty-nine RBIs have come against the Rangers
The Rangers have five losses of four or more runs in August. Before August, the Rangers had five losses of four runs or more between June 18th and July 31st.
Rangers manager Chris Woodward received his first ejection of the season. It’s the second by a Rangers staff member (Cory Ragsdale got tossed Thursday, August 4th, against the White Sox).
Brad Miller snapped a 0 for 15 with a base hit in the third inning. Jonah Heim also broke a 0 for 17 with an RBI single in the sixth.
Ezequiel Duran picked up his seventh multi-hit game this season. Five of the seven multi-hit games came against the White Sox (3) or Mariners (2).
Despite being an opener, Josh Sborz started for the first time in his MLB career. Sborz made one start in Triple-A Round Rock, but the last time Josh started consistently was in 2017 with the Tulsa Drillers (Dodgers Double-A affiliate).
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