Let me start off this review by saying this. I knew we were in trouble instantly when the first pitch of the game was hit for a single. Which didn’t bother me too much. Why? Although I was at this game, I wasn’t there to watch the game. The Monday previous to this game was my daughter’s 7th birthday. As is a tradition I picked up from my own mother in the 70’s, I like to take her to a game around her birthday as her “Birthday Game” each year. This was the game I chose to take her to due to the extended road trip over the last few weeks. On top of that, there was a brand new play area for her to explore and run around in, so I figured I wouldn’t be in my seats long. This recap will be more about the time with my daughter than the game as such. :) [Read more…]
G19: Rangers take series against NYY with 7-3 win
In the rubber game of the Yankees series, Scott Feldman took the hill against Phil Hughes. Feldman was pushed into service due to the doubleheader a few days ago. It’s the perfect use of the spot start. One feels bad for Feldman sometimes. On one hand, he pitched his way out of the rotation after his 17 game win season a few years ago. But, with all the increased pitching we have lately, he’s the prime guy to have the short stick, and stuck in long relief. Good enough for a major league team, but not good enough to crack the rotation. Still, he was making a spot start here, and given his lack of being stretched out, it was unlikely that he was going to get a ton of innings, perhaps not even enough to qualify for the win. [Read more…]
G18: Darvish shuts down NYY with 2-0 gem
In spring training, Yu Darvish had some mediocre outings, and got better as March rolled along. When he came out to start the season, he was positively atrocious to start the game, and within his first outing, he improved as the game went along. That was just a smaller version of his season overall. He’s gotten better with each outing since the first, and was absolutely stellar last night. The amazing thing is that he’s 3-0 now. Given how awful he was in the first game, and how much he treaded water in the others, you’d think he’d be 0-2, or 1-1 at best. Not 3-0. But he’s 3-0. We’ll take that. What I’ll really take is the way he pitched last night. [Read more…]
G17: Rangers lose to Yankees 7-4
As is my policy for the last several years or so, I don’t write about losses to the Yankees.
I will however, write about Pudge separately during this week some time.
G16: Rangers win in 11 innings, 3-2
Bit of a disputed call for the deciding run, but I’m super busy at the moment, I’m taking a mulligan on this game.
Congrats to Phil Humber
Congrats to Phil Humber of the White Sox on his perfect game today. Didn’t get to see it, but these are always special.
Coverage of the perfect game is available here.
G15: Rangers streak ends, Tigers win 3-2
Well, OK, we know we weren’t going 160-2. Bound to lose sometime. But even the loss we had in this game was’t awful. Sometimes there are losses where your team just doesn’t show up, and gets run over. There’s times when you’re bludgeoned to death with too much offense. There’s games where you have 4 or 5 errors and give it away. This loss was like none of those scenarios (or half a dozen other I could name if I felt like it). [Read more…]
G14: Rangers take Game 1 of doubleheader, 10-4 Good Buddy
You know, that pun in the title was so awful, I considered not doing it, but it just screams to be used, so I had to. :)
Game 1 of the day/night doubleheader started at noon, and I was in full daddy mode at that point. My wife works Saturdays, so I forgot the game was on until it was in the third inning. When I turned it on, the Rangers were already up 9-0! Mildly disappointed when I saw I had missed an eight spot in the first inning. I was a bit more annoyed when I found out that Adrian Beltre came out of the game with that big ugly word – hamstring. That will be evaluated tomorrow, but one NEVER wants to hear that word associated with injury. [Read more…]
Friday’s game Rained out
Friday’s game in Detroit was rained out. Was bummed about that, as it was the one game a week I get on regular TV. My wife had made one of my favorite meals (a buffalo chicken dip), and I was gonna settle in and watch. Watched the whole pre-game on Channel 21. Then.. Rain. Half an hour later (fortunately I had some buffer on TiVo, only took five minutes), it was called.
A bonus is I ended up playing with my kids in the living room before they went to bed, so it’s not all bad. :)
Makeup is tomorrow, in the cheapskate doubleheader. One at noon, one at 6PM. Fortunately, the 6PM game is on Channel 21, so I’ll watch that. Just won’t have my good buffalo chicken dip to go with it. :(
G13: Rangers take first in Detroit with 10-3 win
The Rangers rejiggered their starting rotation to put Yu Darvish third, and Matt Harrison fourth. It was explained as a way to keep Darvish on the same number of days rest. I think it’s more to break up the two lefties in the rotation. Still, no matter what the reason, Yu Darvish took the mound in game one of the Tigers series that started on Thursday night in Detroit.
He’s still walking too many people, but he pitched more like the guy we thought we’d be seeing. His line was 6.1 innings pitched, two hits, one run allowed, five walks, and five strikeouts. Not liking all the walks, but the two hits was a big improvement. He had an excessive number of pitches for 6.1 innings as well (121). A lot has been made that he’s thrown more pitches in a game a lot over in Japan, but I’m not buying it. He’s throwing too many pitches. Walks need to come down. Still, he got the job done, and that was the bottom line. I couldn’t see him pitch, this was a radio game for me, but it sounds like he was pitching much better than before. He’s also 2-0, so this is good. He’s definitely getting better with each start. [Read more…]
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