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“Just trying to be patient and aggressive with my stuff. I know I have really good stuff,” Ure\u00f1a said of his improvements.<\/p>\n
Ure\u00f1a has put together an impressive rookie campaign so far, especially considering he started his season in the bullpen and had to fight his way into the starting rotation.<\/p>\n
Trout gets it started early<\/p>\n
He also had the benefit of pitching with a lead for most of the game courtesy of a Mike Trout two-run home run in the bottom of the first, though that was the only run support the Angels managed for Ure\u00f1a while he was still in the game.<\/p>\n
Trout’s home run came on the first pitch he saw, a 92.2 MPH cutter in the dead-center of the zone. Trout is notorious for habitually letting the first pitch he sees in any at-bat go, but facing Nathan Eovaldi<\/a> on the mound, he wasn’t taking any chances.<\/p>\n “He’s [Eovaldi] a tough pitcher, man,” Trout said. “Just trying to get something I can hit early. Go out there, be aggressive.”<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Managing with traffic<\/p>\n The Rangers<\/a> scraped two runs together over the course of the game, but considering the amount of traffic they put on the bases, only allowing two runs to cross was more than a blessing.<\/p>\n They had the bases loaded in three separate innings and in each inning the Angels escaped without allowing a run. Ure\u00f1a specifically escaped twice, striking out Jake Berger both times to do it.<\/p>\n “Big situations and they’re coming through,” Trout said of the Angels pitching staff. “Made some big pitches. Being out in center [and] just seeing them pitch, they’re tough. I know how tough it is to hit and to see them pitch… to make them in big situations, it’s big for us.”<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Nolan Schanuel<\/a> improved the Angels to a 3-2 lead with a double in the bottom of the fifth and Oswald Peraza<\/a> added two crucial insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth to make the lead 5-2, which is all the Angels needed after Kirby Yates<\/a> came in for the top of the ninth and put the Rangers down in order for his first save of the season.<\/p>\n Oswald Peraza #2 of the Los Angeles Angels celebrates after a hit during an MLB game against the Texas Rangers on May 23, 2026 at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n Steven Park – The Sporting Tribune<\/p>\n Oswald Peraza #2 of the Los Angeles Angels celebrates after a hit during an MLB game against the Texas Rangers on May 23, 2026 at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California.<\/p>\n Gaining momentum<\/p>\n It’s the Angels’ first set of back-to-back wins since May 5-6, when they defeated the White Sox<\/a> twice in a row, and it’s a chance for them to build some momentum and correct course on their season, something manager Kurt Suzuki<\/a> is hoping they do moving forward.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n “The energy is really good,” Suzuki said. “It’s fun to be a part of when you’re doing something like this on a nightly basis. I know it was only two nights, but it’s a good reminder of how we can play and, when things are going good for us, how good we can be.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. – The Los Angeles Angels outlasted the Texas Rangers 5-2 Saturday night for their second-straight win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,400,99,44345,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,603,4,394,4953,1841,149,18,69,60764,396],"class_list":["post-707277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-baseball","tag-jake-burger","tag-kirby-yates","tag-kurt-suzuki","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-nathan-eovaldi","tag-nolan-schanuel","tag-oswald-peraza","tag-rangers","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-texas-rangers","tag-walbert-urena","tag-white-sox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116628231737183920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Oswald](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b5166b143c947c6dec8e75e49b3cc643.jpeg\"\/)
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