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Commentary (by me)
Ranger TV is back! Yay! I kinda missed that Lin TV Ranger theme song
that's always on during the Ranger games. :) Unfortunately, it started with a
totally sloppy game (7 errors for both sides, and 32 hits). The Rangers came
out on top, and sometimes it's fun to see a slugfest, but this game just felt really
sloppy to me.
There was a really cool play on one of the errors. When Jon Shave (I think it was him) was playing third later in the game, he made a really wild throw to first base, and the ball went over the first baseman's head. The ball didn't go into the stands, it just bounced off the side of the fence and right back to first base. The Twin runner made a really REALLY slight move towards second base (but enough of a move to technically be "going towards second"), and then took his time getting back to first. The umpire saw that, and the Ranger catcher at the time (Hubbard) also saw it, and picked up the ball and tagged the runner out. It was one of those freak plays you don't see happen very often. Two of the Ranger errors were really close calls, could have gone either way. Taking away both of those still leaves you with 3 errors, which I think is three too many.
On the big time positive side, Mac looked good on the field, and was on base, too. Glad to see him coming around after all the injuries. Got to see the Mateo cannon again throwing out a Twin trying to stretch a single into a double.
It was great to see a big win, and I missed our TV crew (nothing against our radio guys (I love them, too), but I usually watch more games than I listen to on the radio). Overall, the offense looked awesome, but then again, this is the Twins. However, a lot of it was against Brad Radke, who we had shown some interest in. Radke didn't look all that good today, but then again, neither did Sele.
Commentary (by Jim Meeks)
The Rangers banged out a spring-high 19 hits Saturday to double up the Twinkies,
10-5.
Starter Aaron Sele pitched horribly (4 IP, 4 ER, 2 BB, 2 HR) but still managed a win. The
Rangers bullpen pitched well however and held on to a Rangers outburst at the plate.
Tom Goodwin had 3 hits and Pudge Rodriguez, Todd Zeile, Roberto Kelly and Royce Clayton
all added a couple of hits each.
The bad news is the Rangers committed 5 errors. Clayton now has 5 errors in his last 7
games. I didn't see the game on TV, nor hear it on the radio, but let it be said that
spring training fields are notoriously horrible. Whether these errors were throwing errors
or not, I just don't know.
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| Royce Clayton steals second | Roberto Kelly is tagged out at home trying to score |
Line Score
GPFT FINAL
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
- - - - - - - - - - - -
TEXAS 3 0 0 4 1 0 0 2 0 10 19 5
MINNESOTA 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 5 13 2 FINAL
WP - AARON SELE (2-2)
LP - BRAD RADKE (0-2)
HOME RUNS: TEX - NONE
MIN - MATT LAWTON (1) OFF SELE IN THE 3RD
TORII HUNTER (2) OFF SELE IN THE 5TH
TIME: 2:56 ATT: 5,024
Box Score
TEXAS (10) AT MINNESOTA (5)
TEXAS AB R H BI MINNESOTA AB R H BI
T GOODWIN CF 4 1 3 0 T HUNTER CF 5 1 1 2
SHELDON 2B 1 0 1 1 LAWTON RF 4 1 2 1
MCLEMORE 2B 3 1 1 1 J JONES RF 1 0 0 0
ZAUN 1B 1 0 0 0 STEINBACH C 2 0 2 0
GREER LF 4 1 1 1 G WILLIAMS C 1 0 1 0
DRANSFELDT SS 1 0 1 0 MIENTKIEWICZ 1B 2 0 1 0
L STEVENS 1B 3 0 1 1 D ORTIZ 1B 2 0 0 0
S GREEN CF 2 0 1 0 M CORDOVA DH 5 0 0 0
I RODRIGUEZ C 3 1 2 1 T WALKER 2B 3 1 1 0
HUBBARD C 2 0 0 0 HOCKING 2B 1 0 1 0
ZEILE 3B 3 1 2 0 ALLEN LF 3 0 0 0
CUYLER LF 2 0 0 0 LATHAM C 1 0 0 0
R KELLY RF 3 1 2 1 KOSKIE 3B 3 2 3 1
MATEO RF 2 0 0 0 GATES 3B 1 0 0 0
ALICEA DH 4 2 1 0 GUZMAN SS 3 0 1 1
CLAYTON SS 3 1 2 2 ESPADA SS 1 0 0 0
SHAVE 3B 1 1 1 0
TOTALS 42 10 19 8 TOTALS 38 5 13 5
TEXAS 300 410 020--10
MINNESOTA 011 210 000-- 5
E--STEINBACH, FR RODRIGUEZ, MCLEMORE, DRANSFELDT, I
RODRIGUEZ, SHAVE, CLAYTON. DP--TEXAS 3, MINNESOTA 2.
LOB--TEXAS 7, MINNESOTA 9. 2B--GREER, I RODRIGUEZ, ZEILE,
T WALKER, KOSKIE, GUZMAN. HR--LAWTON (OFF SELE), T HUNTER
(OFF SELE). SB--I RODRIGUEZ, CLAYTON. SF--MCLEMORE.
IP H R ER BB SO HR
TEXAS
SELE (W) 4 9 4 4 2 3 2
MUNOZ 2 3 1 0 0 0 0
D PATTERSON 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
GUNDERSON 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
MINNESOTA
B RADKE (L) 4 10 7 7 0 0 0
T MILLER 1 4 1 1 1 0 0
MAYS 2 0 0 0 0 1 0
FR RODRIGUEZ 1 5 2 1 0 0 0
OHME 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
T--2:56. A--5,024.
FORT MYERS, FLORIDA (TICKER) -- Tom Goodwin had three hits
and Royce Clayton drove in two runs as the Texas Rangers banged out 19 hits en route to a
10-5 exhibition victory over the Minnesota Twins.
Goodwin and Clayton helped Aaron Sele overcome a shaky outing to earn his second win of
the spring. Sele gave up four runs and nine hits over four innings, surrendering a solo
homer to Matt Lawton in the third and a two-run shot to Torii Hunter in the fourth.
Brad Radke suffered his second loss, yielding seven runs and 10 hits over four innings.
Ivan Rodriguez, Todd Zeile and Roberto Kelly each had two hits for the Rangers, who scored
three runs in the first and four in the third.
Corey Koskie had three of Minnesota's 13 hits.