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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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NOTES: Michael Young is back from the paternity list after his wife had a kid. That’s about it. It cost Luis Hernandez his roster spot, though. Hernandez was outrighted to AAA on the 29th when he cleared waivers.
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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…]
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NOTES: Koji Uehara, the guy who we tried to dump in the offseason and refused is back. Hopefully he can pitch. A “yawn” move.
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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. :)
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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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NOTES: Michael Young’s wife had their third child the other night, so Young was placed on the MLB paternity list. The Rangers called up Luis Hernandez to handle the roster spot vacated by Young’s departure to look after his family. I’m a little unclear on technicalities on this. Does this callup count as an “option” for Hernandez, or since it’s just paternity list for no more than 4 days or so, does it NOT count? Anyone know?
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This game was a good back and forth game for quite awhile. The lead changed or tied four times through the first 7 innings. Those kinds of games are good for fans. The pitchers probably don’t like them, because it means that nobody can hold a lead. But I’m not a player. I watch the games, so I like these back and forth games. However, it certainly didn’t end up that way.
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The Rangers are leading all of baseball with big innings this year. We have something like 25 5-run or more innings in 2012. This game we almost did that twice in the same inning. We put a major hurt on the Orioles tonight with a five spot in the fourth inning. If you let a team back from a pounding like that, then you deserve to lose the game. Fortunately, however, the Rangers didn’t do that, and kept the Orioles down on the way to a 12-3 stomping. The biggest highlight was Adrian Beltre, of course. Why?
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Scott Feldman has been quite odd this season. He was horrendous early on, and then lately he’s been like the 2009 version. His last 2-3 starts have been somewhere in the middle. Like this one – he wasn’t awful, but he wasn’t that great version of Scott Feldman, either. Thing is, he was doing OK through the first four innings. Gave up just one run – not too bad. Then the wheels fell off in the fifth, he gave up a four spot, and that was pretty much it. The Rangers made an effort to get back into it later in the game, but couldn’t come all the way back, so Feldman and the Rangers lost this one to The Flying Showalters, 5-3.