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Not much good happened in this one. We lost 11-1, and got a total of three hits, two of them by Eric Young. The Angels, on the other hand had 10 runs and 16 hits.
However, the really bad news was that we lost Ric-Rod for awhile. He was hit in the arm by a line drive off the bat of Robb Quinlan. Later on, they said he had a broken elbow, and is on the DL “indefinitely”. That’s really not good, as he was I’m sure you know was viewed as the permanent third starter. That’s just not good.
One interesting thing happened in this game you don’t often see. The Angels moved their DH in to play the field, which means they surrendered the DH – the pitcher was officially required to bat, although it didn’t happen as Anaheim used a PH in that spot in the ninth.
In case you missed it, this is my last update for about a week, as I’m going home to visit family and check out the new stadium the Phillies have. See you on June 30th as I’ll start up updates again when the Rangers come back home.

I didn’t start watching this game until 11:45PM last night, so I wasn’t in the mood to score it – in fact, I whizzed through watching the whole game in about 40 minutes in high speed on my TiVo. ;)
What I did see this game was a lot of pitching. Escobar struck out about 600 Rangers tonight. Ryan Drese didn’t allow a whole lot himself over his 7 innings. A well pitched game all around.

Nice comeback win! Too bad we had to come back in the first place, as Wasdin definitely pitched well enough to win. Wasdin got (technically) a quality start, and left with the lead, but unfortunately, a rare blown save for us – Frank Francisco was lights out his first inning, but gave up a HR ball to let the Sox tie it in the 8th. Almanzar came in, and put out the fire, as Francisco left two on base. Coco came in and was even more lights out, striking out the side to get his 29th save.
Teixeira’s HR streak came to an end, but he got a hit in the bottom of the 8th to help us with the victory. Rod Barajas was hot tonight with three doubles, and Gary Matthews Jr had a two run HR as well. Not a spectacular offensive night – we had 6 runs on 10 hits, but we had ours when they mattered most, it seemed.
Nice night to be out at the ballpark.

The score wasn’t even as close as 12-6, it seemed.
Benoit was crap. What a shock. We had three home runs (Matthews, Blalock, Teixeira). Tex’s was his fifth in a row, tying a club record.
That’s about all I have to say about this game.

Well, I was at this game last night, and I have to say through seven innings, it was a real snoozer. We had a single run through those seven – up to that point, Batista was pretty dominating. In the eighth, he appeared to run out of gas. He walked a couple, and then aided by an error by Carlos Delgado, we pushed across two runs, until Mark Teixeira came up, and jacked the first pitch he saw into the Rangers bullpen with the bases loaded for the win.
Yeah, some other things happened this game, but the grand slam was really the only thing that I bet most people will remember from this one. Was a really quick, very thrilling end to what I thought was going to be a real bore of a game.

Ricardo Rodriguez continues his streak – he now has 15.1 consecutive innings of shutout baseball – look out Orel! ;) Seriously, it was nice to see two really great performances in a row from him – could he be the third to the Rogers/Drese front end of the rotation? I hope so. If he is, it would have to really cheese off the Indians, as both Drese and Rodriguez used to be their property. Rrod went 6.1 scoreless innings tonight. They weren’t exactly easy, though – only the first was 1-2-3. Several times they had two guys on base, but Rrod managed to get out of all of them. Our bullpen in this game (Shouse, Francisco, Mahay) combined to throw 2.2 innings of hitless relief – something really nice to see.
Offensively, we didn’t have much going on at all. We only had six hits. Three of them were from Soriano, two from Mike Young, and one from Mark Teixeira – a three run blast in the fourth that whizzed right by the group of folks I was with in Section 10; that looked cool. We were out-hit 8-6 in this game, but we got the W, which is what counted.
As I mentioned above, there was a group of us at this game tonight. I organized this with several folks from my forums, and there were 19 of us out in Section 10 tonight. Technically, that doesn’t count as a group by the rules, but my ticket guy said it wasn’t worth losing the sale over a single ticket, so he got me in with 19. It was nice putting some faces to everyone, and while I didn’t get to talk to everyone as much as I would have liked, I had a great time. We had two rows of seats (one of 8 seats, and one of 11 – this was one of those angled sections with odd rows, the one in front had just two seats in it), so that made it hard to be able to talk to everyone, which is what I had wanted to do. I might try and do this again before the end of the season, do this in a game in September. To all of you who came, thank you – I really enjoyed myself. Too bad about the mob scene at the Rawlings Grill. The place really is good, but they get overwhelmed when 43,000 people show up. :)

One other thing – someone there asked me about the software I use on my Palm to score games. It’s called Scorepad, and you can check it out here. It’s not cheap if you want the whole enchilada, but for what I do with it, I felt it was worth it.