August 23, 2022 - Game 123
W - Justin Lawrence (2-1)
L - Brock Burke (6-3)
S- Daniel Bard (26)
HR: TEX: Semien (20), Lowe (19); COL: Díaz (7)
Time of Game: 2:37
Game Recap
After a series win in Minnesota, the Rangers headed for a twenty-two-hour trip to Denver for two games against the Rockies. Back in Arlington, Colorado, took both games (April 11th and 12th) as the Rangers looked to flip the script. It was Dane Dunning getting the start as he faced the Rockies for the second time in his career in Denver. Last season, I asked Dane if Coors Field's hitter park reputation plays into his mind. "Not really," Dane said last June. "The main thing playing in my mind is making sure I'm executing my breaking balls." Meantime Texas faced Germán Márquez for the fifth time in Márquez's career, but the first in 2022.
The Rangers' evening began with a bang. Marcus Semien led the game with a home run, while Nathaniel Lowe followed suit with a two-run shot. The three runs came in the first nine pitches Márquez threw Tuesday. Leody Taveras bunted himself on to which catcher Elias Díaz threw into right field. Taveras tried for third, but a relay from Randal Grichuk to Ryan McMahon tagged Leody, and the inning ended. Colorado evened the game up at three on a Díaz 0-2 three-run home run. Meibrys Viloria threw out Wynton Bernard, trying to steal second base to end the second inning. The Rockies had a double in the third and fourth and couldn't score their run, while the Rangers had an Adolis García double to keep the hit streak alive in the third. Adolis didn't score in the inning either. "In every aspect [and] phase [Adolis] contributes," Beasley said. "He can beat you on the bases, he can steal bases, he can go first to third, first to home, second to home, [and] make dazzling plays on defense. He's an exciting [and] dynamic player. There's really nothing on a baseball field that he can't do."
In the fifth, Texas retook the lead as Bubba Thompson stole second base and scored on the Marcus Semien triple. Lowe drove in another run on a groundout scoring Marcus, and finally, Adolis scored Corey Seager on a single to left field. Colorado grabbed a run back on a Charlie Blackmon single blooped into shallow center field, cutting the Rangers' lead to 6-4. In the seventh, the inning started with an error by Corey Seager. "We didn't take care of the baseball tonight," Tony Beasley said. "We missed the double play opportunity [in the second] that leads to us giving up a three-run home run. [There] were a couple of other chances where we didn't handle the ball well tonight [and] force the pitchers to pay take the extra batters." With two outs, Blackmon reached and Cron gave Colorado the lead with a home run to right making it 7-6 Rockies. Colorado had runners on the corners and tried a double steal. The Rangers let Bernard steal second, but Seager alertly threw back to the plate to Viloria as he tagged Díaz to keep it a one-run game. In the ninth, Jonah Heim doubled to keep the game alive. However, the Rangers couldn't bring Heim home with one out and fall in another tough one-run loss.
Dane Dunning was able to go five innings for the Rangers Tuesday. Despite Dane's low seventy-two pitch count, the Rockies got to Dunning for four runs and seven hits, and Dunning hit Grichuk with a pitch. Dane struck out four in his start. Josh Sborz allowed a hit but retired the side in fourteen pitches in his one inning of relief. Brock Burke didn't get help from his defense, but it was the Cron homer that did damage against Brock. None of the three runs were earned against Burke Tuesday. "I was good with Brock," Beasley said. "He had some soft contact early. We didn't handle the baseball and the pitch to Cron he was trying to elevate and didn't quite where he wanted to get it and it was a good pitch for [Cron] to get extended and get the ball in the air." Jonathan Hernández threw a scoreless eighth inning despite two hits. Tony Beasley and athletic trainer, Jacob Newburn came to check on Jonathan, but everything looked fine.
Postgame Notes
Rangers are 0-3 this season against the Rockies. They've lost seven of their last nine against Colorado dating back to 2021.
The Elias Díaz home run was the second 0-2 home run allowed by Dane Dunning in his MLB career.
Corey Seager's twenty-six home runs and Marcus Semien's twenty home runs are the third Texas middle infield combo with twenty homer campaigns in the same year. They joined Elvis Andrus and Rougned Odor in 2017 and Michael Young and Alfonso Soriano in 2004 and 2005.
Adolis García is the 2nd player in Rangers history to have twenty or more home runs, twenty or more stolen bases, and a twenty or more game hit streak in the same season. Iván (Pudge) Rodríguez did this in 1999.
In García's twenty-game hitting streak, he's had four multi-hit games. Tuesday was his first in the last eleven games. Cron is 83 of 281 vs. Texas life time (.295).
CJ Cron's fifty-seven RBI is the most against any team in his MLB career. The second most is thirty-eight against the Detroit Tigers.
Tuesday was the second game of 2022, where Marcus Semien homered and tripled in the same game. On July 9th against the Twins, Semien tripled and homered.
Corey Seager has five errors in nineteen games during August.
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