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Well, normally you’d want to play baseball in October. However, when your team is this far out, and this far behind, it’s not the kind of baseball you want to play.
Darren Oliver against Barry Zito. Gee, I wonder who will win this one? Zito was his usual great pitcher. Oliver was his usual not so great pitcher – giving up 7 runs and 9 hits in 5.1 innings.
It’s getting pretty hard to write about these guys given what kind of season they’ve had. Yeah, I know they’re playing hard and all, but as a fan, I’m a bit burnt out writing about them losing. :(

Didn’t get to see any of this game, but it was nice to get a win. There’s still an outside shot we could escape the basement this season, but we’d have to win just about all of our final six games, all against Oakland & Seattle. Most likely not happening.

Yuck!

Home runs all over the place on this one. Arod hit his 50th in the first, Carlos Pena got his third, Raffy had his 46th – hell, even Scott Sheldon got in the act!
I’m writing this 5 days later, I don’t remember much about this one than all the home runs. :)

Didn’t get to go to the final home game of the season, due to the fact that I have a bowling league that starts at 6PM, and there would have been no way to get from Arlington to Garland within an hour, especially at rush hour traffic. Turns out the game wasn’t over until 5:35PM anyway, and unless Mr. Hicks was going to fly me by helicopter back to Garland, I couldn’t go.
We ended up the home season 41-41. Not all that bad I guess considering our overall record. Hope we do better next year.

About the only positive thing you can say about this game is that we still have not been shut out this year. Oh yeah, Danny Kolb & Juan Moreno were really good out of the bullpen. Other than that – we sucked. :)
This was bittersweet for me, as it was the last baseball game I’ll be going to until next April. I’ll really miss it. I would have gone to the Wed final home game, but it’s at 2PM. I have a bowling league on Wed, and I have to be there at 6PM. Not enough time to get from Arlington to Garland. :(

Well, after the sweep of Anaheim, I guess we’re back to reality with the Mariners coming in.
We lost this game – and it showed – we lookd pretty bad out there. I was at the game, but I admit I didn’t pay as much attention, as I was with a friend of mine who I tend to talk a lot with, so I was missing big chunks of the game.
Didn’t miss much from the looks of the wire reports.

I didn’t see or hear any of this game due to being over some friends’ house and watching football.
However, it was really nice to see that Arod broke the HR records of both Ernie Banks, as well as the Ranger team record. Looking good for the first 50 HR season by any Ranger player ever. Raffy continues to hit HR’s lately too, getting his 45th.
Rick Helling was great again, going 7 innings, and giving up only one run – he left with 98 pitches, I wonder why he left early?

I didn’t see or hear any of this game, but in looking at the box score, I see Raffy really opened it up with two home runs, as well as 3 RBI’s. Aaron Myette pitched pretty good, going 7 and giving up 4. Overall a nice win, although I didn’t see any of it. :)