The Rangers go to Seattle, and take on their toughest pitcher, Felix Hernandez. As is my custom, I refuse to call him “King Felix”. Again, if you’re a Mariners fan, or are Mariners media, that’s fine. But I’m tired of seeing Rangers media give him the accolade by calling him that. I refuse. Anyway, while there’s no denying he’s a great pitcher, the Rangers don’t seem to be dominated by him. Oh, he’s beat us, sure – but we’ve beat him our fair share. Probably more than we should, considering how dominating he can be. That’s good, IMO – great pitchers should beat you, but when you can hold your own with them, you’re doing good yourself.
Matt Harrison to DL
- P Matt Harrison placed on 15 day DL, retro to Apr 6
- P Justin Grimm recalled from AAA
- P Justin Miller recalled from AA and placed on 60 day DL [ Link ]
This isn’t a move I particularly like. But Harrison has been pretty bad the first two starts of the season. Odd, because I don’t recall him being hurt or bad during the spring. So it popped up pretty quickly. I’m also not sold on Justin Grimm as a replacement. Bullpen on standby there. Hopefully I’m wrong, but outside of Grimm’s original major league debut, I haven’t had a lot of trust in him to start games for us.
Justin Miller is a procedural move only, so I won’t count him in my list of players who have been called up this season.
G9: Holland hard luck loser; Rangers lose 2-0
Before the season started, I wrote about Derek Holland that I hope he pitches well this season. Well, so far he has. Unfortunately, he’s just 0-1 so far on the young season. Last night’s game was a good definition of “Hard Luck Loser”. Derek’s line on Wednesday was 8IP, 5H, 3BB, 4K, 2ER on 110 pitches. You tell me your starter goes out there and throws eight innings, allows just two runs? Yeah, I’ll take that ANY GAME from any of our starters. You cannot fault Derek Holland for this loss. [Read more…]
G8: Tepesch spectacular in debut with 6-1 win
When I was watching this game, as Tepesch progressed through the game I was immediately reminded of Brian Sikorski. He’s a Ranger starter who made his major league debut on Aug 16, 2000 (boxscore) against the Yankees, and nailed it. I wrote about that here. I bring this up, because I wasn’t the only one to make that connection. Jamey Newberg did as well, he wrote about that in his update on Tepesch’s debut. But this night wasn’t about Sikorski, it’s about Tepesch. [Read more…]
Nick Tepesch Purchased, Borbon Gone
- P Nick Tepesch purchased from AAA
- OF Julio Borbon designated for assignment [ Link ]
Well, the Julio Borbon era ends in Texas. I have to say I figured it would end differently. I figure we’d work out a trade with someone. We may yet, but a DFA was a bit of a surprise. He had a great spring, and I hope he ends up somewhere and does well. Always liked the guy, feel bad, but he got buried behind a lot of other guys. We always talk about how David Murphy has never gotten playing time. Borbon did get playing time – twice, and didn’t capture it. Still, you feel like he could now. It just won’t be here. See ya later Julio.
G7: Nathan gets 300th save in 5-4 win
I didn’t get to see any of this game, missed the whole thing. Lot of noise about the last pitch of the game afterwards. It got Joe Nathan his 300th career save, and if you watch the pitch itself, it does seem like we caught a break on that. After the game, Joe Maddon of the Rays threw a major wobbler on Twitter about it. But even the ump came out and said he blew the call. Check this out.. [Read more…]
Robinson Chirinos acquired
- C Robinson Chirinos acquired for PTBNL or $ from Tampa Bay
- P Jeff Beliveau designated for assignment [ Link ]
I honestly don’t know much about either of these guys. Probably just a move to have some more depth at catcher in the minor leagues.
G6: Rangers take series against Angels with 7-3 win
It was immediate right away that Yu Darvish wasn’t going to have the same kind of game against the Angels that he did against the Astros. That’s not simply because the Angels are a better team. He was wild. It felt a little like his first ever start here in Arlington last year. He recovered, and kept the damage to a minimum, but we were down 2-0 pretty quickly in the top of the first. [Read more…]
G5: Home Run Derby leads to 8-4 Angels win
This one can be summed up easily. The Angels hit more home runs this game than the Rangers did, and that’s why they won.
G4: Rangers take home opener, 3-2 over Angels
I think I’m going to go with a stream of “comments”, vs an article for this game. I’m sitting at my desk doing a ton of things at once (all baseball related), and I have the chance to have live comments here..
Pregame:
Glad for this game to get started, I’m tired of hearing EVERY sports commentator asked “What do you think the reaction to Josh Hamilton will be?” Seriously, does this honestly need to be asked? The “Be silent” people don’t have a chance. We all know what the reaction will be.
I had to stay home for this one, I had a ticket option, but certain realities kept me from attenting. That’s unfortunate, but I’m still “virtually” at the game. Being connected with the radio, mlb.tv, and twitter feeds & Facebook timelines from people who ARE there.. It’ll be cool.
Even though I’m sitting at my computer, and could stream the game over the Internet, I broke out a manual radio, pulled the antenna up, and listened that way. Seems more “pure”. :) [Read more…]
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