Rangers pitchers are one swing away from tying the club record for most grand slams given up in a season.

It would seem almost impossible for any club record to be tied or broken in an abbreviated 60-game season. But the Rangers are almost there after Kyle Gibson gave up a grand slam to Jared Walsh in the fourth inning of Monday afternoon’s 8-5 loss to the Angels in Anaheim.

Walsh’s homer finished off the Angels’ seven-run fourth inning. The Rangers led, 3-1, going into the bottom of the fourth before Los Angeles rallied and won for the third time in the four-game series.

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“I felt we were in command of the game at that point,” Rangers manager Chris Woodward said. “Just frustrating to have it play out the way it did.”

Gibson threw his first career shutout in his last start against the Astros, but he couldn’t generate the same command and dominance against the Angels. Instead, he tied a career high by allowing eight runs (seven earned) on five hits and four walks over four innings.

“Once guys got on base, he didn’t seem to get down the mound the same,” Woodward said. “I don’t know if it was a mechanical thing. I know he was talking about the same mentality of attacking the strike zone, but once guys got on base, he couldn’t command the baseball.”

The grand slam by Walsh tied the Rangers’ 2000 pitching staff for the second-most grand slams given up by the club in one season. The 1988 team allowed nine over a 162-game schedule. This was the second slam allowed by Gibson this year.

Woodward said the Rangers’ grand slam total is hardly the result of bad luck.

“No, there's a lot behind it,” Woodward said. “I don't think it is bad luck. When you put yourself in jams to where you have the bases loaded and then you can't make a quality pitch, that's what happens. We put ourselves in those situations a lot of times because we didn't execute pitches. You’ve got to get ahead. That's one thing Gibby did really well his last start, but not this start.”

Woodward was more annoyed by walks. Gibson walked four batters -- all with no outs -- and three of them ended up scoring.

“If you're attacking the strike zone and they get a weak hit or maybe you make a great 3-2 pitch and [the umpire] doesn't call it, that's a far different mindset for that pitcher,” Woodward said. “But typically the way we've had the bases loaded has not been because it's an 0-1 base hit or an 0-0 base hit, it's because it's a four-pitch walk or five-pitch walk. Hitters feast off those situations. We've got to honestly attack the strike zone. That has to be a main point out of this year.”

The Rangers led, 2-0, going into the bottom of the second before the Angels loaded the bases on walks to Shohei Ohtani and Taylor Ward and a Justin Upton hit-by-pitch. Gibson allowed just one run in the inning on Max Stassi’s ground-ball double play.

Gibson wasn’t so artful getting out of trouble in the fourth, however. This time, holding a two-run lead, Gibson loaded the bases with no outs on Anthony Rendon’s single and walks to Ohtani and Upton. The Rangers got an out at home on Ward’s grounder to third baseman Isiah Kiner-Falefa, but Stassi tied the game with a two-run single and Andrelton Simmons’ single put the Angels ahead. Shortstop Anderson Tejeda fumbled David Fletcher’s grounder for an error to set up Walsh’s grand slam.

“We basically gave them that inning,” Woodward said. “That’s the frustrating part, because I felt like we were in control the whole game up to that point. It kind of takes the air out of everybody. Seven-spot, down by five, and it changes everything. If they hit their way out of it, it’s different. But when we put guys on base, we can’t defend that. At that point, we were flirting with disaster. It was the game.”