Rangers recap: Padres take final two as Texas loses seven of eight at home before break

The Rangers limped into the All-Star break Sunday with a 2-1 loss to the San Diego Padres at Globe Life Park. It’s the sixth time Texas has been shut out this season. The Rangers’ offense was held to four hits and twice stranded runners at third.

Pitching: Yovani Gallardo finished the first half with another solid performance, allowing a run on six hits in 5 2/3 innings. The lone run came in the second after a bad hop single bounced by first baseman Mitch Moreland and rolled slowly into right field. Right fielder Shin-Soo Choo didn’t react to cut it off and second baseman Rougned Odor had to track it down. Meanwhile, Willl Venable made it to third for a one-out triple. He scored on Will Middlebrooks’ grounder to second, in which Odor’s throw home was late. Gallardo was in trouble again in the fourth after a leadoff walk and single to left but worked out of the jam to preserve the one-run deficit. Sam Freeman replaced him with two outs and two on in the sixth and struck out Yonder Alonso to strand both runners.

Hitting: Padres starter Tyson Ross held the Rangers to three hits and two walks through 6 2/3 innings. The Rangers had a couple chances to puts runs across, including Delino DeShields’ leadoff double in the fourth and Adrian Beltre’s one-out double in the seventh but failed to come up with a clutch hit. In the eighth, a leadoff walk by Elvis Andrus led to nothing. The Rangers had runners on the corners with two outs but Shin-Soo Choo grounded out softly to first to end the inning. With one out in the ninth, Beltre reached on an infield hit to third and scored from second on Rougned Odor’s single up the middle to make it 2-1. Andrus followed with a single to left to put two on for Leonys Martin. Martin, however, struck out to end the game.

Notable: Texas finished the first half losing seven of eight games at Globe Life Park ... Padres closer Craig Kimbrel earned his 23rd save on Sunday.

This story was originally published July 12, 2015 at 5:24 PM with the headline "Rangers recap: Padres take final two as Texas loses seven of eight at home before break."