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Rangers beat Team Japan on Thursday 8-4

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I forgot that we played a second game on Thursday evening, going against the Japanese World Baseball Classic team. This was an exhibition game, it didn’t count in the spring training standings – was also a split squad game.
It’s pretty hard to write about this, as I can’t seem to locate a box score for it anywhere. If you know of one, please leave a comment below where to find it. This is one I would have liked to have watched on TV. From what I can see, it appears to be a pretty evenly played game through five, when we were up 2-1. However, it broke out from there, as we scored two in the 6th and four in the 7th, to essentially seal the deal.
Some highlights: Ian Kinsler went two for three with an RBI, RA Dickey went three innings giving up just one run, and John Danks threw three innings of scoreless relief for the win. For Japan, their starter Daisuke Matsuzaka went four innings, giving up just one lone run – their pen let them down.

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Mack Brown to throw out first pitch Apr 3rd

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A special thanks to Matt over at Bevo Sports for tipping me off to this story. Apparently Texas longhorns coach Mack Brown, along with Darrell Royal will be throwing out first pitches on opening day for the Rangers on April 3rd. This isn’t a huge suprise to me, as the Rangers have been doing a Texas Hero tradition for opening day first pitch for as long as I can remember. Here’s Matt’s full story.

In an exclusive interview earlier today on SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket, Texas Rangers’ owner Tom Hicks announced that on opening day the Texas Rangers will honor the 2005 National Champion Texas Longhorns, with Mack Brown and Darrell Royal throwing out the first pitches.
This comes on the heels of the Rangers going after Roger Clemens, a former Texas Longhorn himself. I wonder if this is just one more tactic in trying to lure the indecisive Roger Clemens to the Rangers?

ST6: Rangers beat Cubs 6-5 on Tuesday

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I’ll have more on this later, as I was watching the World Baseball Classic games this afternoon, so I haven’t had time to check out what happened here in detail.
Edit Later: No I won’t – I got too busy with work on Wed & Thu to go back and write about Tuesday’s game.

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ST5: Rangers win slugfest, 13-11 over Diamondbacks

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The game just ended, and there’s no box score available yet, but this looked ugly. 36 hits, 24 runs. Yeah, yeah – I know. Spring Training. Players we won’t see anymore. Still. Bleargh! :)
I’ll have more on this one once a box score shows up and I get some time this evening to sit down and write. :) Although I will say this. D’Angelo Jimenez got the save? He’s not a pitcher – I can’t wait to see the box score on this one!
Later Update: When I saw D’Angelo Jimenez got the save, I immediately IM’ed Jamey Newberg who called that “bs”. :) He was right, it was the wrong name in there. But given as many hits and runs we had, the thought of having a position player isn’t that unrealistic. :) Anyway…
As I’ve said already, this was an offensively dominated game. There was no coverage at all, so it was a “refresh the box score” game. After I saw us go up 7-2 after the top of the second inning, I was feeling pretty good. Then we went up 12-3 after 5, I was really feeling good. Then the old Peckaway theory came into play. The Dbacks started coming back. It was 12-8 after 6, 12-11 after 8, and then we got one in the top of the ninth, which we needed, as they also scored in the bottom of the ninth. As I said, no good pitching around, really. Of the 13 pitchers used total by both sides, only 3 of them didn’t give up any runs at all (Fabio Castro for us, and M Chico & F Heredia for Arizona). The worst offender was Russ Ortiz, the starter for Arizona. He gave up 7 earned runs on seven hits and two walks in his two innings of work.
That was capped off by a Kevin Mench grand slam. Mench added another RBI later on to lead all players with 5RBI in the game. Joaquin Arias & Adrian Brown both went 3-4 for us, and both scored. There’s just too many players with hits, runs, RBI to detail here, just look at the box score below. :)
13-11 – seems like a mid season game to me. :)

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Rangers lose to Brewers Sunday 9-3

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The Rangers lost to the Brewers on Sunday by the score of 9-3. There was a big old ugly 6 spot in the 8th that was the primary reason we lost.
However, I don’t feel like writing about it right now. The adoption I mentioned yesterday fell through, and I’m pretty devastated. :(

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Rangers hang on in Spring Game 3 to beat Royals 9-8

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Well, I listened to most of today’s game. However, since I have a 10 month old baby, and today was daddy’s day to spend with her, you can’t give the game your total attention. I did listen to it, but didn’t take in many details. These are the only actual notes I managed to take: :)
* Royals go up 2-0 on a 2 run double by Doug Mientk in the 1st
* Rod Barajas brings it back with a home run first pitch back from a knockdown pitch
* Home run in the 9th
I was going to retroactively create an update, however, before I sat down tonight to do it, I found out that I’m going to be an uncle, my brother and his wife have been trying to adopt a child for awhile now, and got “the call”, and are going across country tomorrow to handle all that, so my mind is elsewhere right now. :)

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