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Led by Adrian Beltre, the Rangers got out to an early lead, and kept it the whole game, although they tried to give it back late.   Beltre was 4-5 in this game with two doubles and scored two runs.  Only one RBI, though.   But when you have a full 1/3 of your team’s hits for the game, then yeah – you qualify as having led the team.  :)

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Well, OK, maybe not crush.  That word implies a score like 17-3 or something like that.   The Rangers only lost by four runs, but it felt bad pretty quickly.   After the top of the second, we were down 6-0 in an outing that Matt Harrison would like to forget.  At this point, he’s got an EXTREMELY slim chance at still getting to 20 wins.  He’d have to sweep the month of September to do that.  We’ll see, but I doubt it now. [Read more…]

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This is the kind of outing I envisioned happening every other start when we signed Darvish.   Well, OK – maybe not THAT many, but I figured we’d see this kind of performance more than we have.  Not that I won’t take it.  It was a great, dominant start.   For the 8th time this season, Yu Darvish struck out at least 10 batters.  That was something that eluded ALL Rangers pitchers for the better part of of a decade, it felt like. Mark Clark certainly never did that (I haven’t mentioned him in awhile, I was overdue for a Mark Clark shoutout).

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Adrian Beltre was the big deal in this game.  He went 3-3 with a walk, a run scored, and four RBI.  Two of his three hits were a double and a home run.

The Rangers had a second home run this game, it was by Nelson Cruz, his second home run in as many games.  This time though, he did go back to back, which as I said about yesterdays game is always a nice thing to see.  :)

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OK, Scott Feldman started the season really REALLY awful, and I was openly mocking him.  Then in mid season, he bounced back, and for like a month or so, and looked like the 17-9 version from a few years ago.  Last few starts though, he’s bounced back.  Not quite to the awful version, but somewhere in the middle, closer to bad than great.   At one point, I actually said on this site we should consider keeping him if he was going to stay the 17-9 version.  However, that’s not the case, and I revert to my opinion that he won’t be here next year – although not as hostile an opinion as before.  :) [Read more…]

I’m not going to write a ton about this one.  Mostly because I’ve been writing now for over an hour, and I’m starting to burn out on writing about baseball tonight.  But I will say this:

Up 2-0 after one.  Up 5-0 after two.  Up 9-0 after three.  The game was over.

The home run by Mitch Moreland in the second inning was a monster shot.   Justin Morneau had one that looked longer to my eyes, but the “distance report” had it shorter.

But seriously, Dempster looked good again.  Rangers bombed the Twins.  That’s pretty much it, folks!  :)

Sunday we go for the four game sweep.  Given the way the first three have gone, I expect the Twins will want out of town in a hurry.  The combined scores of the first three games give the Rangers a 27-9 run differential.  :)

There’s two things that will dominate any discussion of this game, but that’s not a surprise at all.   That’s Matt Harrison’s completely dominant start, coming close to a no hitter.   And of course, Adrian Beltre hitting for the cycle.  Both are worthy of much discussion on their own, but we got two of them in the same game.   But the most important thing is that it happened on a Friday night, so I got to see the game!  :)  First off, the cycle..

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