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Well, I was at this game, it was the night before I left for E3 in Los Angeles. I wanted to go to a baseball game before I went out of town. The Rangers lost, but I had a great time at the game. Decent weather, my wife was with me, and what made it awesome for me was the pinch hitting by Ruben Sierra in the bottom of the 6th. I was busy with my scorecard, and my wife pointed out that Sierra had come out for a curtain call – glad she did that, or I would have missed it. Was really nice to see that, and for me, it was the highlight of the day.
They were also filming stuff for the Disney flick “The Rookie“. Dennis Quaid (who I loved in Frequency & Innerspace) was at the park, and ran out in the middle of the 7th to film stuff. There were a few errors on the filming, like the Devil Rays uniform being current instead of what they were wearing in 99; same for their logo. Also, Quaid ran out from the Rangers’ bullpen, not the visitors. Oh well, it’ll still be cool to go see that in the theatres and see the Ballpark in Arlington (remember, Arlington Stadium made a cameo in my all time fav baseball movie – Bull Durham).

The White Sox looked silly in their 1915 era throwback uniforms. However, not silly enough that they couldn’t beat us. I’ve never liked playing against James Baldwin. He always seems to beat us, although usually more dominatingly than this. We lost again, and our exciting 1 game winning streak was over. :)
Rick Helling gave up a few more home runs – returning to his form of a couple of years ago. This is probably the worst Helling has pitched with the Rangers.

Well, this was the kind of game we were supposed to get. Tons of runs, enough to clobber the other team to death. We scored 16, and gave up 6. Seems what we should be doing here, although these kinds of games are few and far between.
Arod had two home runs, his 200th and 201st of his career. He’s got 200 at age 25. Assuming he hits like this, he’ll have 400 at 32, and 600 at 39. That’s assuming he keeps up his current pace. :) Arod also had 6 RBI’s in this game – Kapler & Catalonotto also had 3, and the others were scattered around the club.
Aaron Myette got the start, and looked good in the first, but was knocked out in the second. We’ve had pitchers stay in longer giving up more runs, I guess Narron wanted him out before too many scored and killed his mind too much. Pat Mahomes probably pitched himself into the starting rotation with this performance, going 4.1 innings and giving up nothing.

(I’m not going to be writing much about this game, as it was a casualty of me being out of touch for awhile due to a business trip).
An interesting pitching matchup – two pitchers who have pitched a perfect game going after each other – Kenny Rogers & David Wells. Both pitchers gave up 5 earned runs, Kenny going 7 innings, David going 9. The game went into extra innings, and unfortunately, Mike Venafro gave up a gopher ball to a guy who doesn’t hit a lot of home runs – Jose Valentin.
Overall another decently pitched game by Kenny Rogers, unfortunately it was wasted due to the bullpen giving it away. Oh well.

Ewww. I don’t even feel like writing about the games in this series. We’re awfully close to having the worst record in all of baseball at the moment. :(

Ewww. I don’t even feel like writing about the games in this series. We’re awfully close to having the worst record in all of baseball at the moment. :(

Ewww. I don’t even feel like writing about the games in this series. We’re awfully close to having the worst record in all of baseball at the moment. :(