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We tried to win, but can we? Nooooooooooooo. Stupid bullpen. 9-7 loss to the M’s.
Arod had 5 RBI’s and two HR’s, we turned a triple play, but was that good enough? No, of course not. Our stupid bullpen. :(
Additional game notes are available here.

Well, we lost this game too, but it wasn’t as annoying as last night’s (at least for me). We were winning for awhile, and I thought Irabu was pitching well. Our usual problem came into play – bullpen can’t keep any runs off the board. :(
Seattle had an ejection two nights in a row, which was amusing.
Carl Everett had a pretty majestic looking home run into the upper deck in right field. Overall, one never likes to see losses, and I just had a feeling that this was going to slip away once we got to the bullpen. Hopefully we can take Sunday & Monday for a split.

Ugh. Down 5-0 in the first inning. I was driving around in my car with my wife, and I really really have a hard time getting into games when we’re down this many early. When I got home, I didn’t really pay attention to the game at all, and that’s not a bad thing, as we lost anyway. :(

Now this was awesome. Started off with just being out at the ballpark for a day game. That was nice.
It then got better when we scored some runs off of Oakland starter Mark Mulder early. Something I didn’t think would happen much at all today. Quite frankly, the way this game went, I thought it was backwards. We did what I thought the A’s would do to us.
Doug Davis was spectacular. About halfway through the game, I told my wife that I hoped we scored more than three runs, so Davis could get a shot at a complete game. He got the chance, and he got it – pitching a two hit shutout. He only faced 3 batters over the minimum. He gave up two singles, and a hit batter. It was quite nice to see this kind of pitching from us. Nolan Ryan was in the stands watching the game, I’m sure he liked that, too. :)
The other big shine was Kevin Mench, who had four RBI’s in the game, and made an awesome defensive play in the outfield. Speaking of defense, we had standout plays from Hank Blalock and Gabe Kapler too. Overall an awesome day for an awesome game of the most awesome sport there is. :)

Hey – a win! We’ve now got a whopping 2 wins for the season. Woo-hoo! Look out Yankees!
Seriously, it was nice to get a win, and we got good pitching, holding the A’s to only 6 hits and two runs. Their runs all came in the first inning, and we put up a nice string of goose eggs after that. One of the nice things about this game was Colby Lewis coming on and pitching 2.1 innings of damn awesome baseball, giving up only a single hit. Lewis looked good, as did Rocker who struck out the side in the 9th for a save.
Offensively, we didn’t murder the ball (didn’t expect to with who they had pitching), but we got just enough, including a home run by Rusty Greer, and an RBI single by Kevin Mench (his first ever). Carl Everett & Pudge drove in the rest.
Tomorrow’s a day game against Mark Mulder, that is never good to play against him.

This was really annoying. We were staying tight (great game). We took the lead, we blew the lead, we gave ’em the lead.. Back and forth, and we lost in the 11th. Very annoying, especially in bottom of 10th we had bases loaded, game tied, nobody out, and couldn’t get the job done. That sucks. Don’t feel like talking about this one anymore.
I was at this game, now I’m 0-3 for the three games I’ve gone to this year so far (counting spring training games, too).

The finale of the Angels/Rangers series was a rainout. Don’t like rainouts – especially with a scheduled off day the next day. Waaah! :)

It’s early on, and I know things will be different at the end of the season, but I’m tired of talking about this many losses this short into the season. Blech.
Was nice to see Arod break out with a couple of hits and a home run – damn that wind in the bottom of the 9th! :(
There are some addtl game notes here and here.