The Texas Rangers scored ten runs while the Anaheim Angels scored five runs.
It’s a Tom Grieve series so the Rangers went out and blasted the hated Angels and their battalion of MVPs, natch.
Surviving Mike Trout. Thriving against Shohei Ohtani. Even while reviving the Dane Dunning first inning narrative.
This was the kind of game that made sweating through an offseason of unrest worth it.
Player of the Game: No big leaguer had ever homered off Ohtani’s legendary splitter. The league’s line off the pitch last season? .