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

Kyle Glaser, The Orange County Register on Aug 11, 2026

Published in Baseball

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

Still, their recent struggles have plunged the team 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, have scored 85 runs.

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.

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

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

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 frame with two on and one out, but fittingly, they came up empty again as Nolan Schanuel flied out and Denzer Guzman struck out to end it.

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