ANAHEIM, Calif. — Jose Suarez kept the Texas Rangers and the Angel Stadium crowd on their toes in his final start of the season.
On Saturday night, Suarez turned a seemingly meaningless October game into a career highlight, taking a perfect-game bid against the Rangers into the seventh inning. That bid ended with the leadoff batter in the seventh, Marcus Semien, but the Angels beat Texas 3-2 for their sixth consecutive victory.
Semien hit Suarez’s first pitch, a changeup, for a single that rolled into left field. The home crowd saluted Suarez’s efforts with a round of applause.
