Despite Ron Washington’s assertion that he “hates” doubleheaders, I love them. I wish we’d get them back as regularly scheduled parts of the schedule. I remember when I was young there used to be intentionally scheduled doubleheaders. That’s what we got today, a doubleheader, and a classic one to boot (not one of those day-night jobbers). The last time we played a doubleheader in Baltimore, we unloaded and won 30-3 (at least I think that was the last DH there). While we didn’t have anything quite as epic as 30-3 in this doubleheader, we did at least pick up the win in Game 2 to get a split. That ended the road trip 5-5. Considering how hot we were before that, it’s a bit of a letdown. However, it’s generally considered good if you go .500 on road trips. So I’ll take it. [Read more…]
G31: Rangers lose first game of DH, 6-5
Colby Lewis took the hill to start this game, and I have to say his line is one of the more strange ones I’ve ever seen. Check this out:
7IP, 5H, 6R/ER, 1BB, 12K, 5HR, 114P
That’s right. Five hits, and five home runs. Struck out twelve. It was quite bizarre to listen to. The first three Orioles hit solo home runs, which during the game I saw was the first time that’s ever happened in major league history. It took eight pitches, and the Rangers were down 3-0. However, after that, Colby Lewis settled down. Colby then put down the next 18 Orioles hitters in a row, 10 of which were by strikeout. [Read more…]
Rainout on Wednesday
Josh’s pursuit of the extra base hit consecutive record has been postponed, as Wednesday’s game was rained out. There will be a straight up doubleheader on Wednesday to make up for it. None of those day-night double header nonsense moves. A real honest to god double header. Granted, since they’re only drawing 11k people, they won’t even half fill up the place if 100% of the sold tickets showd up anyway, so there’s no incentive to split the gate!
Josh did, however lead the charge in sliding on the tarp in Baltimore. For a guy who is injury prone, it’s probably good I didn’t see that. I would have likely stressed out about it. :)
G30: JOSH HAMILTON! (Rangers win 10-3)
I almost don’t even know how to begin with this one. This one is all about the night that Josh Hamilton had. Since there’s SO MUCH to say about that one, let me get the rest of the game stuff out of the way first. Lost in all the hoopla was a decent outing by Neftali Feliz. He went six innings, allowed just four hits and one run. Walked two, and punched out EIGHT. He’s only 2-1 as of May 9th, but I’ll take that. His ERA is 3.38 and he has respectable if not gaudy numbers after his first month as a starter. I would have been ecstatic if he had the same kind of numbers that Ogando did at this point last year, but what he has is not bad at all, so I’m OK with that. [Read more…]
G29: Brandon Snyder 6RBI leads win, 14-3
When you look down the Rangers’ roster, you see all kinds of names that you’d expect to lead the offense and have a six RBI game. Josh Hamilton, Adrian Beltre, Nelson Cruz, Maybe David Murphy if the stars aligned. But Brandon Snyder? You wouldn’t expect Brandon Snyder to lead the team offensively. And on a night when there was a ton of offense as well (14 runs, 19 hits), his totals were the best of all. You actually have to feel good about something like that. Even if you’re an Orioles fan. When the game was over and I looked at the stats, I thought, “Good for him – GOOD for freakin him”. [Read more…]
Oh My!
G28: Indians beat Rangers 4-2
Rangers lost to the Indians on Sunday afternoon, handing Yu Darvish his first loss. That was our second consecutive series loss. Nothing to panic about at all – in fact, see my remark about Rangers fans panicking too early that appeared on TXA 21. :)
Still, you’d rather see wins than losses.
Still, UGH.
G27: Beltre pinch homer wins it, 5-2
That’ll work!
G26: Rangers lose first to Indians, 6-3
Ugh. Thanks blue.
G25: Rangers beaten easily by Jays, 11-5
Matt Harrison started this game and made everything nice that people have been saying about his pitching lately look like crap, as he stunk up the joint pretty good. He didn’t get out of the fourth, and in that time, gave up EIGHT hits, coupled with two walks for EIGHT big earned runs. Blew up his ERA to 5.40. There wasn’t much good to say about this outing. Also, as I’m writing about it almost a week later, I don’t remember it that well, either. Not sure I want to look up the details behind an 8 earned run 3.1IP performance, either. [Read more…]
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