Some nights, a game’s outcome is decided in the seventh or eighth inning on a manager’s pinch-hitting decision or a particularly prescient play by an infielder.
Other nights, it is decided by one man’s simple struggles. Friday was one of those nights. Ricky Nolasco was the Angels’ choice to take on Texas at Globe Life Park, and he had been so successful in his last two starts, unscored upon each time.
This time, the Rangers scored on him often in a 10-0 trouncing of the Angels.
He made it five batters before surrendering his first run.