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Another one where I don’t have much to say.  Yu Darvish didn’t pitch well again.  While everyone says he’s fine, he looks “tired” to me.  The MLB grind could be getting to him, and this is a time we need him to rebound not start sinking in his performances.

The only real good stuff in this game was a solo home run late by Adrian Beltre.  It didn’t make a huge difference, as it made the score 9-2 from the previous 9-1.  Nelson Cruz went 3-4.  That’s about it.  Not much else to write home about on this one.

Well, crap.  This one ended on a Mike Olt error.  Yeah, he’s a rookie, he’s gonna do that.  But you hate when it comes in a place where the game is over and you lose because of it.

Scott Feldman had another strong outing, and has pretty much erased the ill will I was harboring towards him after his horrendous stretch earlier in the year.  As bad as he was then, he seems as good now.   Just look at his line from this game.  7.2IP, 6H, 1BB, 4K, 2ER, 105P.  Really well pitched game by Scott.  I didn’t get to watch it, but I did listen a bit, and “iPhoned” it the rest of the game.   This is definitely the time for him to get hot and regain his 2009 performance again.  We certainly could use it with the uncertainty in the rotation right now (Lewis out, Darvish shaky for starters).   I said it in a recent update, but if Feldman rides out the year pitching like this, we most certainly could now pick up his option for 2013, something I thought would be unheard of a few months back.

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I’ve been going to baseball games for awhile now.  First one was somewhere in the early 70’s, around 73 or so, I think.   The height for me was when I had a half game season ticket plan with the Phillies back in the late 80’s (for a rather awful team as I remember).  It’s been a lot of games watched by this pair of eyeballs.  However, I say the best one I’ve ever attended was CLEARLY the Oct 30, 2010 game I attended.  That was the Rangers / Giants World Series game at home, where the Rangers won 4-2.   I point that out, because there was something in this game that instantly launched me back to that World Series game.  I’ll point that out when we get to it.

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When you give up nine runs in a game, it doesn’t quite make for what would call a “comfortable” lead.   I mean, heck, the game was tied 8-8 after the sixth inning.  We didn’t start to run away with it until later.   This was the Texas debut of two new players, Ryan Dempster & Geovany Soto.  Both recently acquired in separate deals with the Chicago Cubs.   It didn’t go too well for Dempster at all.   Soto did a little better, but before we get to that, we get to the curious case of Roy Oswalt.

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The Rangers series against the Angels certainly wouldn’t have finished the season.  Heck, the Angels are technically in third place – most everyone seems to be forgetting about the A’s hanging in there.  However, the Angels are still our primary rival in the division, and you never want to be swept by your rival in intra-divisional play.   So, when we went down 6-0 in the top of the THIRD inning of this game, I had tuned out.  Was a game I was watching on my iPhone while my the Olympics were on.  Yeah, OK we scored a run in the bottom of the third, but 6-1 after three was not the kind of game I wanted to watch, so I checked out. [Read more…]

The last game in the month of July started off pretty good.  Scoreless tie going into the fourth.   Derek Holland gives up a solo home run to Albert Pujols.  OK, no big shame in that.  It’s still 1-0 going into the sixth.   Then Mike Trout gets a two run home run.  Pujols gets another solo in the same inning.  We’re down 4-0 in a game where Weaver was dealing.  The “1” in his 14-1 record is us.  However, we didn’t make it two. [Read more…]