Rangers rout Angels with six-run third inning

ARLINGTON — The Rangers strung together six runs on eight hits in the third inning, ending Matt Shoemaker’s night early while en route to a 7-2 thrashing of the Angels at Globe Life Park on Saturday night.

Texas has now won four in a row and eight of 12 to finish the month of April at 14-10.

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Delino DeShields singled, Rougned Odor doubled, Nomar Mazara added a sacrifice fly, then Adrian Beltre, Prince Fielder and Ian Desmond strung together consecutive singles, setting the stage for Mitch Moreland’s back-breaking three-run homer.

That was plenty for Derek Holland, who scattered four hits in six scoreless innings to lower his ERA to 2.48. It gave the Rangers 18 quality starts, the most in the American League.The Angels (11-13) didn’t score their first run until the ninth inning, when Albert Pujols took Phil Klein deep for his team-leading sixth home run.

MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDRangers give Shoemaker the boot early: The Rangers roughed up Shoemaker from the start of the third inning, as seven of the eight hitters he faced collected hits off him and the other drove in a run with a sac fly. After DeShields’ single, Odor’s fraction-of-an-inch-fair double sparked an offensive outburst that culminated in Moreland’s rocket to right, his third homer of the season. Elvis Andrus then doubled, giving the Rangers five consecutive hits off Shoemaker and …

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