April 21, 2022 - Game 12
W - Joe Barlow (1-0)
L - Drew Steckenrider (0-1)
S - None
HR: TEX: Solak (2) SEA: France (3), Crawford (1)
Time of Game: 3:47
Cowboy Hat Winner: Kole Calhoun (1st)
Game Recap
"It was nice to have the breaks go our way," Nathaniel Lowe said after the game. It didn't feel that way to begin the Rangers' night as it felt like another Déjà vu night. Texas had a runner in scoring position in the first and couldn't score after Adolis García struck out. Then Taylor Hearn struggled with his command to start the game. In the first five hitters, Hearn hit Adam Frazier; Ty France homered, Jesse Winker walked, Eugenio Suárez walked, and then JP Crawford homered. The Rangers were down 5-0 five hitters into the Mariners' lineup. Taylor worked out of the first, but it was a grind after thirty-six pitches. The Rangers answered in the top of the second off Marco Gonzales. Texas had back-to-back RBI doubles by Andy Ibáñez and Eli White to push across two runs. Hearn was able to work two more innings and give the Rangers three full innings on Thursday (fighting through after a rough first). Albert Abreu mowed down the Mariners in his two innings of work. He struck out three Seattle Mariners and walked one in the seven hitters he faced on Thursday.
The fifth inning came, and the Rangers' offense turned on another gear (thanks to a Seattle rainbow). First, Eli White reached second base on a JP Crawford, whose one of the better shortstops in MLB. He scored on a Corey Seager sacrifice fly. Then Mitch Garver reached on another Crawford error. García doubled to score Garver and crawl Texas within a run. Nick Solak hit a homer that went into the Rangers' bullpen in left field to cap off the inning, giving the Rangers a 6-5 lead. Brett Martin pitched a scoreless sixth, allowing one hit and a walk.
Spencer Patton faced four hitters but couldn't get out of the seventh, allowing a walk and a hit as Matt Bush struck out Julio Rodríguez (Rodríguez struck out four times Thursday) to keep the Rangers ahead. However, Bush's eighth inning wasn't crisp. He walked two batters on four pitches each, and a Eugenio Suárez single tied the game up at six. In the ninth, with two outs, García drew an impressive walk with two strikes and scored on a Kole Calhoun RBI double to retake the lead for the Rangers. "[Kole] is the heart and soul of the team," Rangers manager Chris Woodward said "The way he goes about his business and he has no ego about the way he does it." Nathaniel Lowe added insurance with a single-scoring Calhoun. However, Adolis García's night wasn't done yet. In the bottom of the ninth, he robbed Julio Rodríguez of a Mariners' rally on an incredible play in center field. Barlow shut down the door in the ninth, and Texas snapped a five-game losing streak. "It was all hands on deck," Chris Woodward told Jared Sandler regarding the comeback. "We used everybody that was available. Everybody stepped up [and] everybody was ready."
Postgame Notes
J.P. Crawford came into Thursday's game with one error on the season (106 innings coming into the fifth). However, he committed two errors in the fifth inning alone. Crawford made 36 errors in 3064 career innings at shortstop heading into that fifth inning.
Nick Solak's two homers have come on the only two Rangers' road wins of 2022
Taylor Hearn's three-inning start is the shortest since July 25th, 2021, in Houston against the Astros. Hearn only threw 41 pitches in that outing. It was also the first start that Hearn had to bridge him into the Rangers' rotation, although he had two other relief outings after that.
Through twelve games, the Rangers have trailed in every single game
Two of the three Texas wins had come when the team trailed by at least five runs
Marco Gonzales has had two six runs / two earned run lines in three starts. Eight of the thirteen runs Gonzales allowed in 2022 have been unearned.
With two home runs and six RBIs, J.P. Crawford is now 8 for 14 lifetime against Hearn.
The go-ahead RBI for Kole Calhoun in the ninth was Calhoun's first RBI as a Texas Ranger.
Eli White picked up his first bunt-hit of his MLB career.
All eight runs for the Rangers came with two outs on Thursday.
Joe Barlow picked up his first MLB victory.
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