We picked up a win in Seattle behind the strong pitching of Kenny Rogers, also rumoured to be going to Seattle. Kenny looked great again this year, getting his 11th win. If he manages to stick with us for the rest of the season (doubtful), he’ll probably easily get 17 wins.
Anyway, we went ahead on the second pitch of the game, and never gave up the lead. Frank Catalanotto hit a home run on the second pitch over Ichiro into the stands, and we never looked back. Well, maybe we did late, when the Mariners made it 4-3, but it was still nice to get a win.
G99: Valdes gets no run support, Rangers lose 4-1
Valdes pitched great. We got no runs, lost it late. Yadda yadda yadda…
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G98: Rangers finally win; 7-3 over A’s
Great pitching. Park looked great, our bullpen tried to give it away, but managed to keep it together. Great great win late.
I’d write more, but I’m busy trying to catch up with weekend work backlog and getting over being sick.
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G97: Please kill me. 6-5
Oh gee. We lose yet another one run game. About the only thing worth mentioning is HOW it happened – at least it was different.
Dave (can we get rid of this guy now) Burba plunked a batter with the bases loaded and the game tied in the bottom of the ninth. Sigh.
G96: Rangers drop 7th; lose to A’s, 10-0
Well, what more can you say about this one except Cory Lidle? He pitched a masterpiece, giving up just one hit and one walk the whole game. Faced 28 batters total, and was brilliant. His only mistake was the double that Juan hit to lead off the eighth. After the 6th, I was actually rooting for Lidle to pitch a no hitter. Especially after we gave up a 7 spot. Figure, once you’re down like that, you might as well get a no hitter pitched against you.
Hate to lose, but when something like this is pitched against you, doesn’t matter when you give up 1 run of 50. Lidle was the name of this game.
Oh yeah, the retro uniforms were kind of goofy looking. For the first two innings, it didn’t look like the Rangers at all, but I agree with Tom Grieve, it had a very good classic feel to them. Too bad more teams don’t have uniforms like that. I think the Yankees are the only ones left doing that, aren’t they?
Roster Transaction
- P Aaron Myette recalled from AAA
- P Reynoldo Garcia purchased from AAA
- P Anthony Telford optioned to AAA
- P Colby Lewis optioned to AAA
G95: Sigh. 5-3
It was funny, when Jerry Narron came out to take out Kenny Rogers, the place booed pretty loudly. I didn’t see the need to bring in the bullpen at the point he did either, and joined in the booing, but Kenny got a standing O coming off the field, as he really deserved the win. I knew the moment Narron came out, the game was over. Our bullpen feels like the Mariners’ looked like about 3 years ago when they couldn’t win anything late at all. :(
Our bullpen blowing an extremely well pitched game by Kenny Rogers is the bottom line here.
Roster Transaction
- OF Rusty Greer moved from the 15 day to the 60
day DL - OF Donnie Sadler accepted AAA assignment
G94: Oh look. Rangers lose again, 6-3
Another loss. Not a surprise anymore, I guess. I suppose the only fun thing was that Valdes pitched well again, and we had several home runs. However, that’s about all we had, can’t win on HR alone. Especially when the usual culprit (bullpen) let us down again.
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G93: Someone please make it stop! (We lose 6-5)
No mas! No Mas!
¡Alguien satisface te hace la parada! (That’s supposed to be Someone, please make it stop!)
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