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Roster Transaction

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  • 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

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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)

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No mas! No Mas!
¡Alguien satisface te hace la parada! (That’s supposed to be Someone, please make it stop!)
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Roster Transaction

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  • P Danny Kolb activated from DL
  • OF Gabe Kapler activated from DL
  • P Randy Flores designated for assignment
  • P Joaquin Benoit optioned to AAA

G92: Rangers lose both sides of DH, 6-4

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Two double headers in Kansas City. Four losses. This is really REALLY bad. Bye bye team. Roll up the truck and start shipping ’em out. Unfortunately that’s probably what is going to happen. Carl Everett can drive the truck.

G91: Rangers lose first game of DH to Royals, 8-6

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Another loss to the Royals in KC. Can we not go there anymore?
About the only really nice thing was hearing Chuck Morgan’s voice again. Chuck – come back!
The game wasn’t anywhere near as close as the score indicates. We picked up three in the 9th to make it somewhat close (and actually almost tied it), but we were outplayed totally.
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Roster Transaction

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  • OF Rusty Greer placed on 15 day DL
  • P Hideki Irabu placed on 15 day DL
  • P Joaquin Benoit recalled from AAA
  • P Rob Bell recalled from AAA
  • OF Donnie Sadler cleared waivers and offered
    assignment to AAA

G90: Rangers lose another 1 run game, 5-4 to Twins

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So much for yesterday’s commentary. Another one run loss. By my count, that’s 15 this year. Turn those around to wins, and we’d be 55-35. Sigh.
Another bullpen letdown. Don’t feel like writing about another one of those. Wait – Arod had two home runs, and is now the major league HR leader, and leads the AL in RBI’s, too (and slugging percentage, I think).
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G89: Rangers beat Twins, 8-1

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Well, I guess we got tired of one run losses (and there’s been a lot of them). In fact, I decided to look up the one run losses so far this season:
Apr: 5 (15 total)
May: 3 (16 total)
Jun: 4 (13 total)
Jul: 2 (4 total so far)
My count appears to be off one somewhere on total losses (I counted 48 and there’s 49), but you get the point. 14 of our 49 losses have been by a single run. If we had those back, we’d have a much different record and be in a way different position. The bulk of those can be summed up as bullpen.
Anyway, this game was pitched well by Kenny Rogers, who will probably be traded, even though I don’t want that to happen. He made a most specactular play on a ball, diving into first base to make a putout. He’s one of the best fielding pitchers I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. Arod had another home run, and Raffy had a few RBI doubles led the way to the 8-1 win. Was nice to get one of these, but given the way we’ve been playing, I doubt it will translate into much beyond today.
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G88: Rangers lose to Twins again, 4-3

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Oh look. Another Rangers loss. And by the same score as the previous night’s game, too. :(
The most exciting parts of this game for me were the home run by Arod (which is always great to see), and the almost inside the park home run by Pudge. However, Pudge appeared to totally run out of gas around third, and it appeared like he was almost stopped coming into home. Too bad, as once it got by Hunter, I thought Pudge’s ball was a sure inside the park home run.
However, we managed to overcome that disappointment and tied the game up in the ninth. Unfortunately, we blew it again against our usual nemesis, “extra innings”. That Extra Innings guy really has it in for us, and we never can seem to beat him. Methinks the blowup of the team will be happening shortly.
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