This game can pretty much be summed up with two things.
1) Colby Lewis pitched like the guy who’s pitched in the playoffs the last few years.
2) Big crooked number early on.
Colby Lewis had more runs batted in than runs allowed in the game!
G41: Astros homer their way to win, 6-5
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…]
G40: Texas beats other Texas team, 4-1
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…]
Josh Hamilton
Uh-oh. Josh’s average fell to .399! Time to Panic!
G39: A’s bounce back, win in 10, 5-4
Despite two home runs by Mitch Moreland to power our offense, the bullpen blew it, and we lost the game in the 10th.
Shit.
G38: Darvish excellent again, Rangers win 4-1
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…]
G37: Rangers lose to KC again, 7-4
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.
G36: Bruce freakin’ Chen? (We lose 3-1)
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…]
G35: Cruz has big day enroute to 13-6 win
The Rangers were tied 2-2 in the bottom of the third. Adrian Beltre singled. Michael Young doubled. David Murphy walked. Then..
G34: Angels bunt past Rangers, win 4-2
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…]
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