Los Angeles Angels come from behind to defeat Texas Rangers 9-8 – MLB Update
The Los Angeles Angels recuperated in a destructive way to crush the Texas Rangers 9-8 in the second outing of the three-game series at the Angel Stadium of Anaheim on Wednesday July 20, to tie up the series 1-all.
Trailing by 8-3 in the bottom of the sixth inning, the American League’ club made their way into the game with overwhelming hitting. Mark Trumbo bunted in a single to led off a six run sixth inning. Mike Trout scored as he reached on an infield single to
short-stop to reduce the lead to 8-5. Erick Aybar and Bobby Abreu added an RBI single to cut it short to 8-7. Then Howard Kendrick took his team one run ahead with his line drive double.
All of these runs came off the Rangers’ starter Derek Holland, who was otherwise phenomenal throughout the game. After the sixth inning, Holland went for seven runs on nine hits including a homer and walked three batters in just over five innings.
These runs also saved their starter Dan Haren, who has given seven runs on nine hits, walked three in four innings. Haren was about to lose his seventh game when his batters provided him a sigh of relief.
His relief pitcher Hisanori Takahashi also became a source of acquittal for Haren, as he allowed only one run over his 41 pitches long one inning. Then Scot Downs tossed two scoreless innings followed by Jordan Walden.
Haren allowed a single to the Rangers’ Adrian Beltre in the top of the first inning, then a home-run to David Murphy in the fourth, a single to Josh Hamilton and double each to Michael Young and Yorvit Torrealba in the fifth inning. The Rangers had posted
eight runs until the middle of the fifth inning.
Before entering into the sixth inning, the Angels were struggling against Holland, as they have scored only three runs. After Kendrick scored an RBI single in the bottom of the first and Torii Hunter hammered a dazzling home-run in the third inning, the
Angels went on the back-foot and struggled in the fourth and the fifth.
Taking this win, the Angels proved too strong for the Rangers, as they snapped their 12-game winning streak. The Angels have also snapped 12-game streak on June 15 in 1978 when, they defeated Baltimore to nip the Orioles 13-games winning streak.
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