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I felt bad for Derek Holland.  I thought this game was going to be easy for him.  Again – Houston Astros.   We got up 4-0 in the third inning.  Was a nice outburst of offense, actually. [Read more…]

The final series against the Astros in Houston as an interleague game got underway on Friday night.  Right now, the Astros are a bad team.  Probably will be for another year or so.  It’s not like I expected the Rangers to win 17 or 18 to 3 each night, but I figured we’d handle ’em pretty easily.  We did get the win, but it was a slightly odd pitching performance.  Robbie Ross got the win, his fifth, but he didn’t start.   [Read more…]

Despite two home runs by Mitch Moreland to power our offense, the bullpen blew it, and we lost the game in the 10th.

Shit.

I had a choice between going to a game on Monday or Tuesday.  I picked Monday.  Bad move.

That’s because Yu Darvish took the hill on Tuesday.  And pitched like a man with that kind of contract should pitch.   He threw 7.2 innings.  Allowed just FOUR hits and one run.   Walked two.  Struck out seven.   Even his pitch count was respectable (118), given the number of innings (7.2).   A full nine inning game at an accepted number of pitches per inning comes out to be 135 for the whole game, so he’s doing OK there.  I always sort of felt that Yu Darvish would do OK before he started, but one never really knows.  It’s nice to see him do so well out of the gate.  Come August or so, it’ll be nice to see if teams adjust to him enough and how the cat and mouse game goes and all of that.   [Read more…]

Ugh.  First series sweep the wrong way of the season, and it’s against Kansas City.   I mean UGH.  Don’t feel like writing about this.

I was at this game.  Had some free tickets from a friend (thanks, dude!), and figured with it being the Royals, we’d have no problem.   The Royals threw out Bruce Chen, a (until recently) journeyman starter who has pitched for several major league clubs (Atlanta, Philadelphia, NY Mets, Montreal, Cincinnati, Houston, Boston, Baltimore, Kansas City, & Texas).   His time as a Texas Ranger was but a blip.  He pitched just five games here in 2007, all in relief.  Left Texas with an ERA of 7.20.  In fact, after his time in Texas, he didn’t play anywhere in the majors in 2008. [Read more…]

The Rangers were tied 2-2 in the bottom of the third.   Adrian Beltre singled.  Michael Young doubled.  David Murphy walked.   Then..

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We got an oddity in this game – CJ Wilson started the game, the night after he started the game Friday.  Now granted, on Friday he only threw less than 20 pitches or something like that, and he probably campaigned to go again, or maybe Mike Scoscia was swayed by the fans chanting “We want CJ” towards the end of Friday night’s game..  Whatever the reason, “Phone Book” Wilson took the mound on Saturday’s game, and set up the possibility that he could lose two straight games in a row on the schedule as he started both. [Read more…]

The amusing thing about this game is that I almost didn’t go.   The weather reports said all day that it was going to be raining for awhile, into the night and into the next day.  It didn’t look promising, but people out by the team I was watching on twitter were all about the game going on.  So around 4:15 or so I decided to just pick up and go.  I was out at 4:30, and it’s good that I left that early, because almost immediately there was wall to wall traffic.  Normally I don’t pick up that kind of traffic until I get down near downtown and the mixmaster (or at least the Fair Park area), but this started way back in Mesquite, and it was wall to wall traffic going pretty much out to the main Post Office.  I didn’t get out of my truck and start walking to the ballpark until 5:54 – one of the longest drives to the park I’ve ever had.  When I was walking in, it was quite sunny, so I was pretty confident the game would come off.  Turns out it was a good thing I went, because I saw a really fun game.   [Read more…]