Too busy on Monday morning to write about this. Would have been shocked if we swept the Yankees, but I’ll take 2 out of 3 against them any time.

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Too busy on Monday morning to write about this, but man. Walk off home run against the Yankees. What a sweet ending! And I was there to see it. Really REALLY awesome! Anyone catch Kevin Mench freaking out on the field dancing and whatnot when we won? It was quite amusing. This picture about sums it up for me:

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There was just so much going on in this game, I don’t know where to start, so I won’t try.

I will say this – Frank Francisco – HOLY CRAP! That was breathtaking to watch!

For the record, I did nothing during Arod’s first at bat. Midly booed him afterwards – didn’t seem worth it for me. I did go apeshit when he struck out to Francisco, though. ;)

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No time for commentary.

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When Chan Ho Park pitches, two things seem destined to happen. He’ll hit someone, and he’ll give up a home run or three. Last night he actually hit three people, although one of them didn’t count because Juan Gonzalez swung at the same time. :) Juan did however, knock out the Rangers with a three run home run to left field.

Park actually looked good last night. He’s definitely better than the last two years, but rather annoyingly continues to give up the mistake ball or two which kills him. If he can knock out the one or two big mistake pitches, he’d probably been 4-2 with a 3.2 ERA or something like that. He does lead our team in strikeouts, and with all the injuries we’ve had this year to our pitching staff, the possibility of dumping him, or bumping him to the bullpen has probably gone away. :(

Speaking of the bullpen, Carlos Almanzar looks like the best pickup we made this offseason again. He went two scoreless innings – in fact I think he went two perfect innings. What were the Reds thinking?

Blalock continues to slump, although his last five hits have all been home runs. In fact, the entire team is in a bit of a rut lately. Not good with the Yankees rising coming in this weekend. :(

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What’s that sound I hear? Is it the sound of visiting players hitting home runs out of the Ballpark? No, it’s the sound of half the Metroplex falling off the bandwagon. Uh-oh. We’ve lost 3 out of the last 4 – so it’s back to the old ways. Fair weather fans irritate me. If you’re going to get on the bandwagon, stay there, or don’t get on at all.

Having said that, last night’s loss was disappointing. We and RA Dickey were cruising through five innings up by a score of 5-0. Then we let it slip away with a couple of big home runs by Matt Stairs & Carlos Beltran. Mike Sweeney also added a solo shot, but the twin three run jacks did us in. We did get a solo home run by Herb Perry late, and actually had a shot at the end of the game, but it didn’t work out. Brian Jordan finally got an RBI as a Ranger, although his average is a totally anemic .100 or so.

RA Dickey struggled – he did put up some goose eggs in the first several frames, but none of them were particularly easy ones to get. I still get that gut feeling that he’ll pull it together. Perhaps he needs to wear the sleeveless uniform instead of the Kenny Rogers special he picked last night. ;)

Our game was a big contrast to the game of the night. Randy Johnson’s perfect game in Atlanta. As great as a perfect game is, and there’s no way one could get better (although striking out 27 guys might do it), one has to enjoy that it was against the Atlanta Braves. ;)

Brett Carre: Not a great way to start a home stand. We lost to the Royals 7-6 on Tuesday.

We had a 5-0 lead heading into the 5th but couldn’t hold it. RA Dickey is coming back down to reality as he gave up two 3-run shots before leaving in the middle of the 6th.

We really need to win these next two games. Chan Ho needs to make a statement tonight. Will he???

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There’s little to say about this one other than Detroit’s pitching shut us down real good. We had a total of 6 hits yesterday, all singles. Jason Johnson was quite good, and then the reliever trio of former Ranger pitchers (Levine, Yan, Urbina) were lights out. In fact, what’s with Yan? His last inning he pitched against us on Friday night he only needed three pitches to get out of the inning. The inning he pitched today against us he only needed 4 pitches. 7 pitches for 6 outs? Yikes – if he pitched like that with us, he’d probably still be here.

Anyway, Ryan Drese was great, too. He went 6.2 innings, gave up 3 runs (one was an inherited runner that Mahay allowed to score). I thought he looked great if not awesome yesterday. I might be willing to change my tune on him totally if we get a few more outings out of him like that.

We return home Tuesday night to face the KC Royals who did to us the last couple of years what the Tigers are doing to us this year.

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