The Los Angeles Angels will attempt to accomplish one thing they have not achieved in over a month once they face the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night time in Anaheim, Calif.
Win three video games in a row.
The Angels have not gained a trio of consecutive video games since June 23-25 once they swept a three-game sequence from the Boston Purple Sox. Los Angeles is 4 1/2 video games behind Boston for the ultimate American League wild-card spot. The Rangers are a half-game again.
All-Star Yusei Kikuchi (4-7, 3.23 ERA) will get the beginning for Los Angeles on Tuesday and will likely be opposed by fellow veteran left-hander Patrick Corbin (6-7, 3.78).
Kikuchi is 4-2 with a 5.01 ERA in 10 profession appearances (9 begins) in opposition to the Rangers. Corbin is 3-0 with a 4.62 ERA in 5 profession begins in opposition to the Angels. He picked up the win in a 11-4 victory at Anaheim Stadium on July 10, permitting two runs — a two-run homer by Taylor Ward — on seven hits in 5 innings whereas hanging out six.
Corbin is available in on a roll, going 2-0 with a 2.01 ERA in 4 begins in July, together with back-to-back highway wins at San Diego and in Los Angeles in opposition to the Angels. He has allowed solely 5 runs and 21 hits in 22 1/3 innings in July whereas hanging out 22.
The Angels gained the sequence opener, 6-4, on Monday night time, roughing up Rangers ace Jacob deGrom within the course of.
deGrom, who entered the competition with a nine-start unbeaten streak, gave up a season-high 5 runs on seven hits in 5 1/3 innings.
Ward matched his profession excessive along with his twenty fifth dwelling run, a solo shot main off the underside of the sixth to interrupt a 3-3 tie. Kevin Newman and Luis Rengifo each hit two-run homers for the Angels.
“It is nice. He is powerful,” Angels interim supervisor Ray Montgomery stated of getting a win over deGrom. “He is top-of-the-line within the sport and he has been for a very long time. He made a few errors … and we capitalized on them with dwelling runs, which was good.”
Rengifo’s two-run blast to proper got here off reliever Jacob Webb and prolonged the Angels’ result in 6-3.
“The lengthy ball beat us tonight. They obtained each mistake,” Texas supervisor Bruce Bochy stated. “You give them credit score there. They hit a whole lot of dwelling runs. On this ballpark, the ball flies. In case you get it up within the air, it is obtained a very good probability of going out, and that is what occurred.”
It was simply the second loss in 10 video games because the All-Star break for the Rangers. The Rangers stay 4 video games behind first-place Houston within the AL West.
“Look, I’ve a relaxed group on the market,” Bochy advised MLB.com. “They have been by way of rather a lot. They don’t seem to be going to dwell on this sport right here. They will put this behind them, we’ll come out and play tomorrow. We’re in July. We’ve a whole lot of baseball left.”
–Subject Degree Media
