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Angels’ offensive issues continue in 10-inning loss to Rangers

August 11, 2026

ANAHEIM — The Angels’ lineup hasn’t exactly been a juggernaut at any point this season.

Still, with their latest struggles, the offense has sunk to new depths.

Mike Trout homered in the first inning, but the Angels failed to score another run the rest of the game and fell to the Texas Rangers, 4-1, in 10 innings on Monday night at Angel Stadium.

The Angels have scored 70 runs in their last 26 games dating to July 9 – an average of 2.7 per game and the fewest in MLB over that stretch.

The next-worst team in that span, the Seattle Mariners, has scored 85 runs.

“There’s a lot of different things I guess you could point out, right?” Angels manager Kurt Suzuki said. “It’s when you get into that funk, you start pressing and you start doing things that are uncharacteristic of yourself.

“I’ve been there. A lot of guys in there have been there. You gotta stay true to yourself and not try to do too much. When you start pressing and trying to do too much, it’s not gonna really go well.”

Their latest display of offensive futility wasted a strong start by Reid Detmers and a sensational home run robbery by Wade Meckler.

Making his first home start since the Angels opted to keep him at the trade deadline, Detmers pitched six innings of one-run ball for his first quality start since July 17. He allowed three hits, all singles, walked four and struck out six.

Detmers allowed all three hits and his lone run in the fourth inning. Otherwise, he held the Rangers hitless in five of his six innings.

“Stuff felt really good,” Detmers said. “… The four walks kind of hurt but, I mean, pitch count was fine. I thought overall it was good. Six innings, one run, you take that every time.”

Still, it wasn’t enough for the Angels’ scuffling offense.

Trout put the Angels ahead in the first inning when he blasted a 418-foot home run to left-center field off of MacKenzie Gore. The solo shot was Trout’s 20th home run of the season and No. 424 of his career, tying him with Edwin Encarnacion for 54th all-time.

After that, the Angels went scoreless for nine consecutive innings. They stranded runners in scoring position in the second, fifth, seventh and 10th, wasting chance after chance to add on. Overall, they finished 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position and left 10 men on base.

“Definitely a tough day with the bats,” Suzuki said. “Really couldn’t get anything going. Gore threw the ball well, but at the end of the day, we got to try to string some of the bats together. It’s been tough to do at times, but we just gotta keep trucking.”

The score remained tied through the seventh due to the heroics of Meckler. With two on and two out in the top of the seventh, Corey Seager launched a long drive off of Tayler Saucedo that looked destined to be a tiebreaking three-run homer.

But Meckler tracked back, timed his jump perfectly, and reached over the right field wall to rob Seager of the go-ahead homer, preserving the tie and leaving the Rangers shortstop throwing his head back in disbelief.

But once again, the Angels couldn’t take advantage. They stranded the go-ahead run on base in the bottom of the seventh, had a leadoff single in the eighth erased by a double play, and went down in order in the ninth.

That was all the opening the Rangers needed. After a quartet of Angels relievers held them scoreless following Detmers’ departure, Brandon Nimmo snapped the tie with a two-run single off Blake Weiman in the 10th and Jake Burger followed with an RBI single to make it 4-1.

The Angels had one more chance in the bottom of the 10th with two on and one out, but fittingly, they came up empty once again as Nolan Schanuel flied out and Denzer Guzman struck out to end it.

“The harder you push, the tougher it gets,” Suzuki said. “You know, we can kind of simplify the game a little bit. Have an approach, stick to a plan, and go after it that night.”

Orange County Register

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