ANAHEIM, California – Corey Seager extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a 457-foot, two-run homer, Nathaniel Lowe had three hits and the Texas Rangers’ offense stayed hot in a 9-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night. fair.
Wyatt Langford also went deep as the Rangers had 12 hits to extend their winning streak to four games. The defending World Series champions tied a season-high on Sunday with 19 hits in a 13-2 victory over Tampa Bay.
Texas trailed 3-2 before opening the game with a five-run fourth inning, including an RBI single by Lowe that gave the Rangers the lead.
Anthony Rendon had an RBI single in the seventh after being activated from the pregame injured list for the Angels, who have lost seven of eight. The oft-injured third baseman missed 68 games with a strained left hamstring.
Texas right-hander Jon Gray (4-4) allowed three runs in five-plus innings for his first road win this season.
After Marcus Semien led off the game with a base hit to left, Seager hit a fastball near the top of the strike zone, over the center field bushes and into the berm.
The 457-foot home run was the second-longest of Seager’s career, surpassed only by a 464-foot shot he hit for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2021.
It also marked the first time since 2021 and the seventh since MLB Statcast began in 2015 that an opposing hitter hit a home run of at least 455 feet in The Big A.
The Angels took a 3-2 lead in the second with four straight hits, including Mickey Moniak’s two-run triple down the right field line and an RBI single by Jo Adell.
Texas regained the lead in the fourth, including a two-run single by Semien that ended the night for Angels starter Davis Daniel. Before Semien’s hit, Langford scored on a miss and Lowe and Leody Taveras had RBI base hits.
Daniel’s two starts since pitching eight shutout innings in his first big league start on June 27 against Detroit have not gone well.
The right-hander allowed seven runs on eight hits in 3 2/3 innings. He gave up five runs (four earned) in 5 1/3 innings at Oakland last Wednesday.
Langford, who had four hits Sunday, extended the Texas lead to 9-3 with a two-run homer in the seventh.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: OF Mike Trout (left knee) ran and made a shot before the game. … OF Taylor Ward (knee) is expected back in the lineup Tuesday after sliding hard into the wall trying to field a foul ball Sunday in Chicago.
NEXT
Rangers RHP Max Scherzer (1-2, 2.70 ERA) has won his last three starts against the Angels. RHP Roansy Contreras (1-1, 4.04) takes the mound for Los Angeles.
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