“They may have something on him,” said manager Bruce Bochy, indicating Anderson might have been tipping his pitches. “We’ll have to get with him and check it out, because they were on everything. You’re going to have nights like that, but it’s something we gotta check.”
The Rangers would end up losing, 15-2, to open the long West Coast road trip on Tuesday at Dodger Stadium.
Anderson became the 45th pitcher in the last 50 years to give up four homers in an inning. He was just the eighth reliever to do so. The only other Rangers pitcher to do it was Pat Mahomes Sr. on Aug. 17, 2001, against the Blue Jays.
That sixth inning was perhaps the worst single frame in recent Ranger history.
But it wouldn’t matter in the grand scheme of another Rangers loss, as the offense scored just two runs on five hits. The game was theoretically over well before that inning, but that was an encapsulation of this season for Texas.
