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The Rangers had their usual power display today. They had three home runs, one each from David Dellucci, Brad Wilkerson, & Adam Hydzu. But it wasn’t enough. We lost to the Diamondbacks, 6-5. Dellucci had two RBI’s in the game, but the other 3 were by others – two were home runs, and the other was Rod Barajas.
Kevin Milwood started his first A-game spring training contest for the Rangers, and early on, looked fine. Eric & Vic seemed to be telling the story that he was looking good this day. He appeared to run out of gas in the fifth, as he gave up three runs there, for a total of 4ER over his 4.2IP. Not a great line at all, but one gets the feeling that it’s nothing to worry about. The remainder of our pitchers went 4.1IP, giving up 2 runs on 7 hits with 5K & 3BB.
Of course, the big news for the day for me was TO being a Cowboy. Hahahahahaha! Can’t wait for the trip to Philly. :D

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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. :)

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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.

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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. :)

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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.

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