Angels vs. Rangers Game Highlights (4/17/25) | MLB Highlights

Final game of this three game series and Kumar Rocker getting the start for Texas Kumar with one start already here. Globe like Doty pitched really well but still searching for his first career win as the Rangers try to complete a sweep. They've also won eight straight home games due to some great starting pitching Kumar trying to keep that up. And here's Kumar Rocker a two time first round pick on the mound for the Rangers. Yeah I mean it's just a great story. The perseverance is here he is. He's got that perfect pitcher's body he's got a good arm fastball Taylor Ward hits one toward the right field wall pretty deep Garcia's chasing it over his head at one hops over the fence and it's an automatic double and a good start for the Angels tonight a team that has seen their offense go to sleep a bit over the last couple of days Taylor Ward has a double to start things in this one. Renito it's one in the air pretty deep right center field. Garcia has a beat though. Ward is tagging as Garcia makes the catch and Ward will make it to third base. That's the first out but a good scoring chance early on here. Mike Trout bats here playing in right field again tonight with Taylor Ward at third base. Roy strikes him out got him on the slider. Rockers first strike out of the night and that's a big one to away. A big strikeout runner on third nobody out. Angels trying to manufacture a run. That is a nasty slider. It's a big run out there. You've got to find a way to get him home again. Go back to find a way. And now Solaire lines a base hit to give the Angels the lead. He finds a way to make it one to nothing. Was it absolute rocket by Solaire. One hundred six point seven off the bat. That's finding a way to get us another hit versus a fastball. It'll be Jack Kahana what's on the mound for the Angels tonight. Been trending not necessarily in the right direction through his first three star started off well. You see that E.R.A. close to six. Simeon off to a slow start chopper toward third at that stage. But Donnell couldn't hold it and Simeon is on with an infield hit Simeon with the lead in the pitch to Seager. He smashes out at the right field base hit. Marcus got a pretty good start. He'll head to third. Tosses it back in. But the Rangers have him on the corners. Nobody out in the first inning. Great job by Marcus. Easy situation going first to third there. The Rangers set up to score at least one hopefully more. Here is Garcia a fly ball here would score the tying run. And here's a Daly's drilling one out in the deep center field. Harris has room as he back pedals near the warning track and makes the catch tagging at third is Simeon. He scores easily. So on the sack fly to deep center Adolies Garcia has tied this game at one of the Rangers matching the Angels run in the first inning with a run of their own. Sean Owell scoops one in the air to right center Tavares coming on slides and he's got it. How about that for our Wutterberger. What a play. Leone Tavares coming in and to his left a little slip and slide that action and taking a base hit away from Nolan Sean Owell to begin the top of the second count Owell to here on Paris. Oh and he'll strike out looking a slider right down the middle. Eight pitches in the second inning for Kumar Rucker and two quick outs and then carves up Paris bases loaded. Nobody out a single hit batsman another hit four hits already for Texas. The Rangers have them loaded nobody out in Leone Tavares the batter big opportunity here there is to 16 average and he hits that ball hard that's out of the center field a base hit that gets two runs home for sure. Higashioka may have a chance he's the third base. They'll wave him. Here comes a throw to the plate Higashioka slides and they got him for the first out of the inning to run score on the Tavares double. And the Rangers now lead three to one another Ranger getting a good swing on a sinker and just drilling it up the alley and right center field three one Ranger lead early on the counts three and O'Day Adoles Garcia. So see if Adoles has the green light three oh he does and that one is hammered to left field Ward is back in the track at the wall out of here. Adoles Garcia leaving the yard a solo home run and the Rangers take a four to one lead. Well just kind of felt that based upon his swings yesterday and how he looked at the plate that he was due for one of these and you're right. He had the green light at three and oh that pitch was up toward the inside part of the plate and he crushed it. Part of the order coming up here for the Angels with Trout Soler and O'Hoppy one strike pitch and he hits that sharply to short stop right to Seager and he'll throw out Trout one away and he'll pop this one up right to Corey. Two away and he strikes out again fifth strike out of the night for Kumar Rocker another quick inning eight pitches needed here with the four the Angels now are making it interesting. Angels could use a big hit. Bats have been asleep here in Texas over the last two games. It'll be Luis Renhefer who's over two today. He says loaded he slaps it to left and he has a base hit one run is in Chautauqua Anderson's on his way home as the ball gets pulled out of the left field corner thrown into the middle of the infield but the runners don't advance. Luis Renhefer gets a big two strike two out two run single and the other way back up slider. He was short enough to go the other way. That's exactly what his approach was and a successful approach. He loses down by one with truck coming to the dish. And now Mike Trout tying and go ahead runs around base in the fifth and Trout swings and misses. Yes he did. Six strikeout of the night for the rookie Kumar Rucker. The Angels are closer now thanks to a big two out base hit by Luis Renhefer with Peterson leading off as he rolls one to the right side when he followed the diving stop from his knees to throw in time. What a play. He's all right. He looked like he turned his wrist but he was able to get up for what a play that was. This is a nice play by Renhefer going to his right. He's got to quickly just get to his knees and fire a strike. Good job by Rucker. He's getting some whiff tonight though. You see that twelve swings and misses but that pitch count still pretty low. So at least he's giving himself a chance swing and a miss a one to three inning for Rucker quality start in the books career high six innings of work for Rucker in a career high tying seven strikeouts. The two two swung on and miss Parra strikes out. That is eight strikeouts for Rucker tonight. Just absolute filth from Rucker. Anderson hits one on the ground a short Seager's got it throws to first another one two three inning for Kumar Rucker. He's retired seven straight and he is through a career high seven innings in relative ease. The Rangers leading four to three as we go to the bottom of the seven Seager goes after the first pitch of the inning deep out to center field. It is gone one hundredth home run for Corey Seager as a Texas Ranger and he adds to the Rangers lead tonight. That's a big insurance run. Corey Seager when he gets a hold of a fastball in the middle of the plate there is no part of any ballpark that can hold him. Robert Garcia is trying for his first major league save and trying to nail down the first big league win for Kumar Rucker Shadwell the batter and there's a little roller Berger will take it himself and that does it. A five pitch ninth inning for Robert Garcia to get the save. The Rangers win it five to three and now Bruce Bochy seventh place on the all time wins list tied with Dusty Baker two thousand one hundred eighty three career wins. Congrats to Boch. Great day for the Rangers. They complete the sweep of the Angels and what an outstanding outing from Kumar Rocker.