This was definitely two games in one. The first game seemed to run from the start till the seventh inning. It was a great pitchers duel. Kameron Loe went 7 innings for the Rangers, giving up one unearned run on 5 hits. Dan Haren went 8 plus innings, giving up 1 run on four hits. A good pitcher’s duel.
Then it got into the bullpen. Otsuka did not do well, giving up a couple of runs in .2 IP. However, Houston Street was terrible, giving up FOUR runs in his .2 IP in relief. THat was the difference. We did have a couple of home runs in the game late for the win. One was a two run shot by Tex, which wasn’t a surprise.
However, the other one was far more comical, envoking memories of Jose Canseco’s ball off the head home run. Milton Bradley had a ball hit by D’Angelo Jimenez in his glove, and then “pushed” it over the fence for a home run. If he hadn’t have touched that ball, no home run, but the only reason Jimenez got his first Ranger home run was thanks to Mr Bradley. It was pretty comical to watch. :)
Not much else to say about this one, as today was my daughter’s first birthday, and I watched this game in about 20 minutes in high speed on the TiVo. :)
Our first series win of the season. That’s good.
G12: Padilla homered to loss, 5-4
This game can be summed up in just a few words. Padilla. Home Run.
While obviously more went on in this game, it will hinge on the fact that Padilla gave up three consecutive home runs to the A’s in the 6th. In all, Padilla went 5+ innings, gave up 8 hits (four of which were home runs) while walking one and striking out four. Obviously not his best start with us. Jack Benoit and CJ Wilson combined to pitch the other three innings, and didn’t give up any more. Sure, we could have scored more runs in the final three innings, and didn’t. But it just felt like the game was over in the sixth inning.
On the other side of things, the A’s pretty much kept us in check. In the entire game, we had just five hits total. One of them was a three run home run by Phil Nevin. We never got much sustained offense in this game.
As I said before, home run. Padilla. Game over.
G11: Rangers beat Barry Zito & A’s, 6-3
I won’t have much time to write about this one. The reason is I had to get up at 3:30AM for Easter Church responsibilities on Friday morning, so by the time this game rolled around, I was dead to the world tired. I fell asleep during the game, and I didn’t see the back end of it util about 8:20AM on Saturday morning. Now I’m off to the aiport to pick up my mother in law who will be in for my daughter’s first birthday tomorrow.
Zito helped more than the Rangers helped themselves, as he was wild, and definitely not “Zito”. Still, I’ll take the win just fine. :)
Wilson – Feldman
- P Scott Feldman optioned to AAA
- P CJ Wilson activated from DL [ Link ]
Total Texas Baseball Magazine
Back in the 2004 season, I was interviewed about an article for the Texas Rangers in stadium program about fan websites. Well, the guy at the Rangers who was responsible for that article being comissioned (Kurt Daniels) is now behind a new venture (he’s still at the Rangers, too). This new venture is a magazine called “Total Texas Baseball”, and is available now. This is a magazine that covers all kinds of baseball in our state of Texas. Majors (Rangers/Astros), Minors, college, High School, it’s all there. Here’s some text from them about what’s in the Inagural April 2006 issue of the magazine:
- Lives Shared in Baseball – Nolan, Reid and Reese Ryan
- Rangers Planning on Improved Pitching
- Astros Offense Expected to be Stronger in ‘06
- Pocket Aces: Danks and Diamond
- Cats Joining American Association
- TCU’s Huffman Dedicated to Two Sports
- Alaniz Leading Longhorns
- “Throw Strikes and Keep it Low†– Hallsville High School’s Justin Jenkins.
- Allen’s Tolleson “Blessed†Despite Injury
I haven’t personally read the magazine yet, but I wanted to draw some attention to it anyway, as it appears to be a quality production. I’m expecting to have my copy shortly, at which point, I’ll update again once I’ve had a chance to read through it.
Bonds & 755
I haven’t said much on Barry Bonds, because quite frankly, I’m tired of hearing about him. Balco & Steroids aside, I think he’s a talented baseball player. Even before recently, he had a boatload of home runs without the cloud of steroids. He won a ton of gold gloves, and has a ton of stolen bases. He’s a talent – there’s no doubt about it.
Today I ran across a cool article by Ben Kabak on how he thinks that Aaron’s HR record is safe from Bonds, due to the two years Aaron spent as a DH at the end of his career in Milwaukee for the Brewers. It talks about how Bonds is not the player or even the hitter he was recently, and that he might have a hard time playing that much to get enough hits for HR to get to Aaron. Course, I think if he’s close, he can just go to some AL team and DH for as long as he needs to get the home runs. It’ll probably be the Yankees, unfortunately. :(
I enjoyed this article a lot, go check it out.
G10: Rangers finally win again, 11-3 against the Angels
I’ll have more about this in the morning. The game just ended, and I’m fairly tired. I will post my raw notes I took while the game was going though. Will probably have somethimg more coherent in the morning. :)
Welcome back Matthews. 3 run 2 out 2 strike triple in the fourth. Batted around in the fourth. Tex HR too
Fifth: Two singles, a walk, a couple of RBI’s chased Escobar after giving up 8 runs in 4.1IP
Sixth: Nix got an RBI double, first ebh of season.
3 hits 3 runs 2 RBI with a home run for Gerald Laird
Nix hit by pitch
Mike Young got his 900th career hit
Esteban Yan wild pitch scoring the 11th run
Koronka looked good. Started the game by striking out the side. Koronka made a great pickup on the mound on the botom of the 6th, behind his back
Guerrero: 39 games
Kinsler DL, Matthews up
- 2B Ian Kinsler placed on 15 day DL
- OF Gary Matthews Jr activated from 15 day DL [ Link ]
Marshall McDougall
- IF Marshall McDougall activated from DL and then optioned to AAA [ Link ]
G9: Rangers now 2-7 after a really annoying loss Tuesday
I had a really nice writeup in my mind. Bauer was far FAR better than I was expecting him to be. We got some power from Hank Blalock, who had two home runs. We had double digit hits, we had some timely stuff. We had some really great defense – that DP by Brown in right was spectacular.
I did like the move Showalter made by taking Wilkerson out of the #1 slot. I liked moving Kinsler up to 6th (Wilkerson 7th).
But we had ass for pitching in the bottom of the ninth, and we blew it completely both from the pitching side, and the defense dropped the ball allowing the winning run to score. Given the way momentum was going, it probably would have scored anyway. But the way we lost was highly annoying. Just irritated me. 2-7. I’m not giving up by far – it has to be a couple of months for me to do that, but wow is this disappointing.
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