The Rangers beat the Frisco Roughriders 6-1 in the final game of spring training.

Who cares about the details?  Bring on the regular season!

I was originally planning on going to this game.  I was going to go early, and retake the photos for my seat selector feature here on this site.  The pictures are due to be retaken, especially due to all the changes in the park the last two years.  Then this happened:

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This was an odd game.  It was technically the Texas Rangers vs the Round Rock Express.  However, after a few innings, it somewhat turned into a scrimmage game between Round Rock and themselves.  The Rangers starters played not too long, and subbed in guys who were either going to be in AAA, or were very recently in AAA.

A sloppily pitched game.  18 runs, and 28 hits will qualify for that.   If you want to read the details, go check out the mlb.com link above.

However, Josh Hamilton finally got a spring home run – his first.  Beltre homered as well.   Last year I went down to Round Rock via a Chevy promotion.  Was kind of hoping it would happen again, but it didn’t.   Had fun last spring.  Still, I might have to go down to Round Rock during the season for a game.  I miss that road trip.

I’m skipping commentary on this one – didn’t see or hear any of it, and I dont have the time to do a box score recap.

This was the final game in Arizona for the season.  The remainder of the exhibition games are in Texas!

I’m skipping commentary on this one – didn’t see or hear any of it, and I dont have the time to do a box score recap.   Still, not thrilled at the “eh” outing by Neftali Feliz here.

Yu Darvish looked quite good on Friday night against the Rockies.   Six innings pitched, six hits, one walk, but ELEVEN strike outs.  That was quite nice.  He did give up three earned runs, however two of them came on a two run home run to Jason Giambi, who is still playing (that surprised me).   In fact, Giambi was the only guy who Darvish didn’t have control over.   Giambi was 3-3.  Helton was 2-3.  Between those two, they had five of the nine hits that Colorado had for the entire game.

Darvish did pretty well, just not against those two.  :)

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Matt Harrison started this game, and pitched quite well.   Six innings, six hits, one run, one walk, struck out seven.   91 pitches, so he had a good outing.

Problem is Matt Cain and the Giants were a bit better.  Cain’s line was seven innings, just three hits and two earned runs, struck out six.  However, two of the three hits were back to back solo home runs by Mitch Moreland & Mike Napoli in the second inning.  That was it other than a double by Josh Hamilton which didn’t amount to anything.   We did get a few more hits off of their bullpen guys, but no more runs.

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Skipping commentary on this one, although I will say that Derek Holland didn’t have a very good outing.

When the game winning play is a walk off wild pitch, you know it’s some kind of game.  :)

The Rangers scored in six of the nine innings played, and the Padres in four, but they had one larger crooked number than we did.  Was definitely an all over the place game.  As I’ve said numerous times, when you have a game with 19 runs and 14 hits, there’s not a lot of great pitching to be found.

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Monday night, the offense broke out in a big away against the Reds.   We did it in a compressed amount of innings, as we scored all our runs in the second (5), third (3), and fourth (4).  Didn’t score anything else after the fourth inning.  Oddly enough, eleven of the twelve runs all game against the starter, Jeff Francis, who certainly didn’t help himself with an outing like THAT this late in the spring.   It was a pretty horrible line for him..

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