Pinch hitter Jonathan Ornelas hit a game-tying two-run single and Nathaniel Lowe scored the tiebreaking run thanks to a throwing error with one out in the top of the ninth inning as the Texas Rangers stormed back for a 9-8 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night in Anaheim, Calif.
Texas entered the ninth facing an 8-5 deficit and loaded the bases against Jose Quijada (2-2) when Matt Duffy was grazed on the foot by a pitch. Lowe fouled off four straight pitches before working a walk to make it a two-run game.
Ryan Miller replaced Quijada on the mound, and Ornelas hit a sharp ground ball past first baseman Niko Kavadas. Right fielder Gustavo Campero was slow to retrieve the ball and overthrew shortstop Jack Lopez, allowing Lowe to score on the play.
Texas (77-84) won for the third time in four games.
The Rangers chipped away at a 7-1, third-inning deficit and were in an 8-3 hole entering the eighth, when Lowe hit an RBI double and Jonah Heim hit a run-scoring triple off Brock Burke.
Dane Dunning (5-7) pitched a 1-2-3 eighth to set up the comeback, and Kirby Yates retired the side in order in the ninth for his 33rd save of the year.
Lowe and Wyatt Langford hit solo homers for the Rangers, who overcame starter Andrew Heaney allowing season highs of seven runs and 10 hits in four innings.
Campero hit a three-run drive in the third for his first career homer. After that blast made it 6-1 Angels, Kavadas followed with a long ball to center.
Michael Stefanic hit a run-scoring ground-rule double and Kavadas scored on a groundout by Taylor Ward in the second. Lopez added an RBI single during the Angels’ three-run frame, but Los Angeles (63-98) ended up losing for the eighth time in nine games.
Logan O’Hoppe went 4-for-5 with two runs for the Angels.
Los Angeles starter Griffin Canning allowed two runs on four hits in five innings.
–Field Level Media
