- P Rick Bauer reassigned to minor league camp [ link ]
ST15: Back to .500 with 10-9 slugfest win on Friday
The project continues. This was on TV, actually, I picked it up off of the Chicago channel, but I had seen the score before I came home, so there’s almost no point when I know the score.
The short notes version:
Back to .500.
Blalock, Nix, Laird all had home runs
All four Ranger pitchers gave up at least two runs
Mark Buehrle got bombed.
Nix & Laird had 3 RBI each
Hopefully I’ll get to listen to Saturday’s game on the radio. :)
Arias, Trezniak, & Metcalf
- SS Joaquin Arias optioned to AAA
- C Nick Trezniak assigned to minor league camp
- IF Travis Metcalf assigned to minor league camp [ link ]
ST14: Rangers win on Thursday, 4-3 over Giants
This was another game that I didn’t get to pay attention to due to my big project at work this week. This will probably extend into next week, too. However, a quick glance at the box score shows a few highlights:
Kevin Mench had a home run.
Our pitching was fairly decent – 9IP, 3ER, 7H, 7K, 5BB (too many walks)
None of our batters had more than one hit total.
Nice to stop the losing streak.
DDD sent down
- P Thomas Diamond assigned to minor league camp
- P John Danks assigned to minor league camp
- P Jayson Duroscher assigned to minor league camp [ link ]
ST13: Rangers drop fourth in a row, 8-5 to Angels
Mench picked off in the first
Ian Kinsler caught stealing in the second
D’Angelo Jimenez mental error on the bases doubled off.
Runner thrown out at home
Those were my only notes I took during yesterday’s game, as I’ve been horribly busy with a big project at work. Was nice to see Kinsler get a home run, too. That’s about all I have time for today. :)
ST12: Rangers drop under 500 after losing to Giants 3-2
This game was available on MLB’s Gameday audio with the Giants feed. They were nowhere near as bad as the Royals announcers have been – in fact one day when the Royals guys were available, I didn’t even listen – UGH! Anyway, I didn’t get to hear much of the game, but what I did hear was entertaining. Mostly because I enjoyed the guy the Giants had on who normally did Spanish broadcasts, and the English guys kept asking him what this was or what that was in Spanish. I liked that. However, if you listened to the game, you’ll recognize this.. “Hello Chicago! – I’ve got $100 to give away”, or “Here we go Giants, Here we go!”.. Does the Giants radio coverage have any other commercials? It seems that’s all they played was these two!
I did get to hear Bonds’ sacrifice bunt – the Giants announcers really seemed surpirsed by that. In reading the coverage of this, Bonds only has 4 in season bunts his entire career, not once since 1998. So it was amusing. Of course he jacked a home run off of John Danks which wasn’t surprising in the least. Danks wasn’t all that great, going 4, giving up four hits and 2ER, and walked two. Not terribly dominant, but overall, not as horrible as I’ve seen, either. The other 5 Ranger pitchers combined to go 4 innings, giving up 3 hits and one run. They struck out four and walked no one.
We didn’t have a lot of offense to match San Francisco. We had a total of 9 hits (2 each by Nix & Blalock), the rest were scattered amongst the Ranger batters. Not much pop, although D’Angelo Jimenez had a home run in the second which was about it for us.
We’ve now dropped three in a row and have fallen under .500 with a 5-6-1 spring record.
Transaction
- P Jesse Carlson assigned to minor league camp [ link ]
My wife won’t like this one!
This little tidbit from Jamey Newberg’s latest newsletter piqued my interest:
The Rangers are evidently talking casually to Boston about David Wells.
While I personally wouldn’t mind that, my wife can’t stand him. I find him rather amusing, and he is still servicable, if not spectacular. My guess is he’s a fallback in case Clemens goes somewhere else. As long as we’re talking about Boomer, his book is pretty darned amusing. If you’ve never read it, you should. Here’s what I wrote about his book on my blog awhile back.
I never liked David Wells, mostly because I only knew him as a Yankee player. That alone is generally enough to get me not to like someone. :) I wanted to check this out solely because of the “hype” surrounding the book. And after having read the book, I have to wonder if the negative press surrounding the book and some of it’s “expositions” weren’t self inflicted. Read the book. It’s a wonderfully entertaining read. He talks about all the problems he had in his life early on, from his time in the minors, to the boredom in the bullpen (although his story about getting women in the stands to flash them is awesome) to his battles with team management, and lots on the Yankees. I also got a charge out of his comments on former Reds owner Marge Schott, and her dog.
I have to admit that this book goes on my recommend list. It was a funny read, and for a baseball fan like myself, gives me some insight into the mind of a baseball player. I really enjoyed it. The link here is for the hardback edition of the book. There is a paperback version scheduled for release, but it’s not currently slated until Mar 1, 2004. The hardback is available now.
Oh, BTW, if you’re someone who isn’t into the liberal use of foul language, you might want to stay away from the book. It’s not like every third word is f this or f that, but there is definitely more than a smattering of f-bombs and the like in the book.
I wrote that back in 2003 when I first read the book. Since then, the paperback version has come out, and is linked above. The hardback version has no discount on Amazon right now, but there are some used copies available through the picture link for as cheap as twenty cents. The paperback link has a facility where you can read a few pages inside the book online. I recommend this book, it was a good read.
ST11: Rangers drop second in a row, 3-2 to Royals
The Rangers threw out four pitchers today. Only one of them is one I think will make the big club (Edison Volquez, unless Roger Clemens decides to sign here (ha!), in which cose it’s zero). Of the four, two of them gave up runs (Volquez, Mahar), although one of the two Volquez gave up was unearned. Alfonseca was scoreless (gasp), as well as Fabio Castro (who I think we’re probably gonna lose having to give back on the Rule 5 rules). I don’t have any big inside info, just a gut feeling.
Overall, it wasn’t a bad pitching performance if you add our four pitchers together. 9 IP, 6 hits, 3R (2 ER), 8K, 3BB. Would rahter not see three walks, but overall it wasn’t too bad, really.
And yet we lost again – for the second game in a row, dropping us to 500 (5-5-1). KC’ starter was Mile Wood, and he was better than our guys, going 5 innings, giving up no runs on four hits. Matter of fact, of the four relievers KC used, there was a combined 6 hits for 2 runs (only 1ER) over the remaining four frames. KC’s pitching didn’t dominate, but it was certainly enough for them to get the win.
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