Reid Detmers goes unrewarded again in Angels' 10-inning loss to Rangers

Jeff Fletcher, The Orange County Register on Aug 21, 2026

Published in Baseball

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ARLINGTON, Texas — A day after the Angels scored 18 runs, they returned to their offensive malaise and managed just one.

It was almost enough.

After scoring the game’s first run in the top of the 10th, the Angels gave up two in the bottom of the inning, losing to the Texas Rangers, 2-1, on Friday night.

Right-hander Ben Joyce, who had not given up a run in any of his first six games, was a strike away from ending it when the Rangers Wyatt Langford blooped a 102-mph pitch into right field for a game-tying double.

After an intentional walk, Joyce gave up a hard smash down the third base line. Denzer Guzman made a diving stop, but then he made a bad throw to second. The winning run scored as the ball rolled into the outfield.

The Angels had missed a chance to get insurance in the top of the 10th, after Guzman’s leadoff double gave them a run with no outs. They couldn’t get Guzman home.

The lack of offense was familiar, except for the aberration of Thursday night’s 18-run outburst.

It looked familiar to Reid Detmers, though. He must have watched the offensive outburst and wished the Angels could save some of those for him.

The Angels (51-78) have not scored more than one run with Detmers on the mound since June 27, including five games when they didn’t score a single run.

The 18 runs they scored on Thursday night was more than they have scored for Detmers over the past two months.

Detmers has a 1.56 ERA in seven starts since the All-Star break, but he has only one victory in that time because of the poor run support.

Detmers has been particularly good against the Rangers. In four starts against Texas this season, Detmers has a 2.63 ERA, and five of the seven runs he’s allowed were in one game.

In May, he pitched one of the best games of his career against the Rangers, striking out 14 while allowing one hit in eight innings.

On Friday, his only real trouble was in the fifth inning, when a soft single, a line drive and a bunt hit loaded the bases with one out. The Angels got the second out on a force at the plate. Detmers then struck out Corey Seager looking at a fastball to retire the side.

Meanwhile, the Angels were doing nothing against Rangers left-hander MacKenzie Gore.

It didn’t help their cause that two of their better hitters — Nolan Schanuel and Wade Meckler — were out of the lineup. Schanuel tweaked his side on Thursday night, and Meckler was still undergoing concussion tests after he was hit in the head by a pitch.

Without them, the Angels barely threatened.

The only time all night they had a runner in scoring position was in the second, when José Siri led off with a single and stole second. He was stranded at third.

In the eighth, the Angels got their leadoff man on when Travis d’Arnaud drew a walk against former Angels right-hander Chase Silseth. Pinch-runner Adam Frazier was caught stealing, though.