G161: Rangers beat Angels again, 8-4

OK, last night we beat John Lackey. Tonight we're up against Ervin Santana, another pitcher who we never seem to be able to beat. Couldn't pull that off twice, could we? Yes we could.

In another surprising turn of events, the Rangers beat the Angels 8-4 behind Scott "We're reducing your workload" Feldman. Scott had a pretty good outing. Went six, gave up just one earned run (two overall) on five hits, two strikeouts, and no walks. He too is probably a real candidate to start the 2009 season in the rotation. He was pretty efficient with pitchers too, just throwing 82 over his six innings. Probably pulled him so others could get some work at the tail end of the season. I mean, they [b][i]ARE[/i][/b] trying to reduce his workload, you know.

The other side of the coin brought a second straight bad performance by an Angel starter not known for them. Ervin Santana went 5.2 innings, giving up 10 hits and one walk for eight runs. Not even close to being good there. We didn't have a massive inning - in fact, our runs were scored over three frames. One in the third, three in the second, and four in the sixth.

The biggest point I suppose of the offense was the fact that we broke the major league doubles record. Hank Blalock did the deed, giving us the record, and then Chris Davis added one on later on. On top of that, the Rangers passed 900 runs scored for the season for just the fourth time in franchise history. If that wasn't good enough, Josh Hamilton regained the lead in RBI's in the American League, with two on Saturday night.