Rangers walk off 13-inning game in untraditional fashion

ARLINGTON — After 13 very long innings, the Rangers walked off the Angels in a 3-2 win. But it wasn’t in your typical fashion.

With the bases loaded in the bottom of the inning after Ezequiel Duran singled and the Angels intentionally walked Corey Seager, Nathaniel Lowe was hit by a pitch to end the game in a rather anticlimactic way. It was the first Rangers walk-off hit-by-pitch since Aug. 16, 2016 against the A’s.

Though the game was technically walked off, the biggest reason for the Rangers’ victory was starting pitcher José Ureña and a group of relievers.

It was just the third start of the season for Ureña, who was thrust into the rotation following the recent injuries to Dane Dunning and Nathan Eovaldi. As a reliever, Ureña had posted a 4.35 ERA in 20 2/3 innings, but he’s looked like a different pitcher since the transition.

On Saturday, he dealt six innings of one-run ball, keeping the Rangers in position to strike as the offensive struggles against left-handed pitchers continued. Rangers relievers Jose Leclerc, Jonathan Hernández, Kirby Yates, David Robertson and Yerry Rodríguez combined for seven scoreless innings behind him.