Jake Burger went 3-for-5 with a home run and four RBIs and Wyatt Langford homered, doubled and also drove in four runs to lead the Texas Rangers to a 13-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night in Anaheim, Calif.
Corey Seager also homered and added two hits and two runs scored, while Evan Carter doubled and drove in three runs and scored twice for Texas, which evened the four-game series at a game apiece. The Rangers finished with 12 hits and drew nine walks, batting around in both the fourth and fifth innings.
Nathan Eovaldi (6-3), making his third start after missing a month with a triceps injury, picked up the win, allowing five hits and an unearned run over six innings. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out six and left after throwing 72 pitches, 55 for strikes.
Nolan Schanuel, who won Monday night’s series opener, 6-5, with a walk-off walk in the bottom of the ninth, went 3-for-4 with an RBI to lead Los Angeles, which lost for the fourth time in the last five games.
Jose Soriano (6-6), who started the game with three no-hit innings, suffered the loss allowing five runs on three hits over four innings. He tied a career-high with five walks and struck out four.
Los Angeles took a 1-0 lead in the first when Zach Neto reached base on a throwing error by third baseman Josh Smith and scored on a single by Schanuel.
Texas took advantage of Soriano’s wildness in building a 5-1 lead in the fourth. Seager, Marcus Semien and Jonah Heim all walked to load the bases with one out and Langford and Carter followed with two-run doubles. Burger added an RBI single to make it 5-1.
The Rangers batted around again in the fifth while extending the lead to 9-1 with four runs off reliever Sam Aldegheri. The southpaw walked three more batters during a 42-pitch inning, including Carter with the bases loaded to force in another run. Burger added a two-run single and Kyle Higashioka capped the rally with an RBI single.
Seager made it 10-1 in the sixth when he led off with his 13th home run, a 427-foot blast to right.
Infielder Kevin Newman pitched the final three innings for the Angels and allowed four hits, including a solo homer to Burger in the seventh and a two-run home run to Langford in the eighth to finish the scoring.
–Field Level Media