Athletics fail to capitalize on Rangers’ pitcher Glenn Otto’s tough start off in 2-1 loss

By STEPHEN HAWKINS
VFAB Baseball Writer

ARLINGTON, Texas (VFAB) — Marcus Semien homered, rookie Bubba Thompson had a tiebreaking RBI solitary and the Texas Rangers won a 1-operate sport only hrs right after manager Chris Woodward was fired.

With Tony Beasley taking care of his very first huge league recreation, right after getting named the interim manager for the ultimate 48 online games of the year, the Rangers overcame 9 walks by their pitchers in a 2-1 earn about the final-spot Oakland Athletics on Monday night time.

“Yeah, it was nerve-wracking. It was a a person-operate ball match, and so every pitch mattered, each individual play mattered,” Beasley stated. “Walks creating options for the other team to rating, we persevered and in some way got by way of it.”

In the conclude, Beasley claimed it was enjoyable, with good energy in the dugout and gamers responding soon after a very long day of significant improve. The Rangers entered the recreation 6-24 in one particular-operate games.

Woodward, who was in his fourth season and two online games shy of his 500th game as manager, was allow go with the Rangers (52-63) on tempo for their sixth consecutive shedding time. He was the fourth big league manager fired this season.

Nick Allen homered for the past-place A’s, who dropped their ninth sport in a row.

The Rangers really have their to start with 3-match profitable streak in much more than two months — since June 11-13. They concluded a sequence victory from Seattle in excess of the weekend by winning what ended up Woodward’s remaining two game titles, offering him a 211-287 history.

Beasley is the longest-tenured member of the Rangers coaching staff members in his eighth period. He experienced a 590-472 file in 8 seasons as a minimal league manager in the Washington (2011-13) and Pittsburgh (2001-05) corporations.

“Obviously, we’re all incredibly grateful for every little thing that Woody’s poured into us,” profitable pitcher Glenn Otto explained. “Very blessed to have Tony Beasley all set to hold performing, and with any luck , make these future 6 weeks definitely suggest something.”

Otto (5-8) went 6 innings for his first victory because June 4 despite a job-large six walks, including the game’s 1st two batters. The younger proper-hander was -6 his past nine starts off. His only strikeout was from the very last batter he confronted, and the homer was a single of only two hits permitted.

“We experienced (runners on) 1st and second in the very first inning and the double engage in ball really bailed them out there. Offensively, we received three hits tonight, and you’re not going to earn lots of games when you get a few hits, no make any difference if you have 9 walks,” A’s manager Mark Kotsay explained. “Offensively, we just didn’t do adequate tonight to score adequate for us to get a baseball game.”

Jonathan Hernandez overcame two walks in the ninth for his fourth help you save in as quite a few prospects.

James Kaprielian (3-7) struck out 5 and walked a person about 5 1/3 innings. He was pulled after Leody Taveras had a one-out triple in the sixth.

“He experienced swing-and-overlook stuff tonight … he was in the zone,” Kotsay reported. “They did have some some at-bats that they had some difficult speak to.”

Taveras went to third on reliever Sam Moll’s errant pickoff throw, then scored when Thompson strike a sharp grounder through the right aspect of the infield.

Semien tied the recreation at 1 with his 18th homer in the base of the third. All of his homers have come about the past 71 video games since May possibly 28.

Allen, Oakland’s No. 9 batter, lined a homer just about the wall in still left-heart main off the 3rd. The rookie infielder has absent deep in again-to-back video games after only one particular homer his first 54 profession video games.

Superior GLOVE Work

Taveras ran a lengthy way to make a leaping catch on the warning monitor in straightaway center on Cal Stevenson’s generate that finished the seventh inning. … Stevenson, the Oakland heart fielder, also had a spotlight play with a diving catch on Corey Seager’s sinking liner in the left-heart gap in the 3rd. … Thompson, in his 10th major league activity, had a jogging, sliding catch of Tony Kemp’s popup to shallow remaining in the 3rd.

TEXAS STREAKING

Rangers 1B Nathaniel Lowe extended his on-base streak to 21 video games in a row with a solitary in the 3rd. That is the longest lively streak in the majors, and four limited of his occupation high. That arrived appropriate soon after Adolis Garcia singled. Garcia’s 12-sport hitting streak is the longest of his job, and the longest by a Texas participant this season.

TRAINER’S Room

Athletics: OF Ramón Laureano (left aspect soreness) was out of the lineup a working day following he felt discomfort on a swing all through his at-bat in the fourth inning at Houston, and left that recreation.