One out later, Calhoun hit a fielder’s choice to second, driving in Bandy with the go-ahead run, and Trout followed with his homer over the left-field fence.
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Hector Santiago hasn’t allowed an earned run in his last three outings and attempts to win his fourth consecutive start when the Los Angeles Angels host the Texas Rangers on Wednesday for the finale of their three-game series. The team has not lost since the beginning of the second half, with a sweep of the White Sox and an opening win against their division rivals, the Texas Rangers.
Next: a six-game trip to Houston and Kansas City.
Someone will pitch for the Royals and the game will begin at some time but I don’t care enough to look it up.
The Rangers scored in the third when Beltre tripled home Desmond and then scored on Rua’s sacrifice fly. But again, after a Robinson Chirinos 2-run home run in the top of the inning gave the Rangers a 3-0 lead, the bottom of the 4th inning proved to be the Rangers’ downfall, and it started with a familiar foe: the leadoff walk.
Ian Desmond had three hits for the Rangers, including a home run off Street with two out in the ninth. He remained in the game through the inning. “Whatever you’re going to throw, throw with conviction, have faith in that pitch and trust it’s going to be a good pitch for you”.
Albert Pujols, who was cleared by doctors to play after taking a 92-mph fastball to the face in the seventh inning Tuesday night, singled in a run in the first, giving him 12 RBIs in four games, and singled and scored on a balk in the third. The Rangers are also just 2-5 in their last seven games in Los Angeles and 0-6 in their last six games when their opponent scores five runs or more in their previous game. With runners on second and third and Jett Bandy at the plate, Perez’s appeared to wobble in his delivery and was called for a balk, scoring Pujols.
The Rangers’ Adrian Beltre hit his 426th career home run, tying him with Miguel Cabrera and Hall of Famer Billy Williams for 48th place all time.
The Angels have scored a major league-high 110 runs in July, an average of 6.9 a game, and they’re batting a major league-best.356 (57 for 160) with runners in scoring position after going three for eight in those situations Wednesday night. He had an MRI on Tuesday that revealed the herniation.
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Angels: LHP Tyler Skaggs made his final start for Triple-A Salt Lake, completing his rehab from his 2014 Tommy John surgery. Rangers OF Shin-Soo Choo was placed on the DL with an inflamed lower back. Texas scored four in the first two innings, but the Angels rallied with two in the fourth, one in the fifth, two in the sixth and four in the seventh two round out a 9-5 victory.
