- OF Dave Martinez traded to Toronto Blue Jays
for PTBNL - OF Pedro Valdez recalled from AAA Oklahoma
G107: Rangers lose high scoring game, 10-8 to Toronto
Well, another game that’s indicative of the problems of the 2000 Rangers. Our bullpen.
Matt Perisho pitched OK, if not awesome as a starter. He went 6 innings, allowing 3 earned runs (2 unearned). He walked three and struck out two. Then comes our bullpen. Fransisco Cordero (who to me is starting to look like he needs to spend extended time at AAA), only pitched one inning, and gave up three earned runs. Venafro (who got the loss) pitched only 2/3 of an inning, and gave up two earned runs. Sigh. The only person not to give up any runs was Crabtree, who only pitched 1/3 of an inning.
Offensively, we scored 8, which isn’t bad, but when you give up 10…. We had two home runs (one by Haselman, one by Raffy), two doubles (one by Raffy, one by Kapler), and a bunch of singles. Speaking of Kapler, his hitting streak is now at 18, passing Todd Zeile on the Rangers list (Todd had 17).
We are definitely a mediocre team. That’s for sure. The goal now has to be .500 for the end of the year.
After the game, we traded Dave Martinez to the Blue Jays – his fourth team this year – for the infamous PTBNL. We called up outfielder Pedro Valdez at the same time.
Haselman solid replacement for Rodriguez in Texas
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Bill Haselman is an insurance policy paying off for the Texas Rangers.
While no player could provide complete replacement coverage for AL MVP Ivan Rodriguez, Haselman has been more than adequate since the nine-time All-Star catcher was lost for the season with a broken right hand.
“There’s no way you can totally protect yourself against losing Pudge, but if you’ve got to have a guy sitting behind Pudge, Bill Haselman is as good a guy as there is in the game,” Texas manager Johnny Oates said.
Going into the series opener at Toronto on Thursday night, Haselman had made eight straight starts — his longest stretch since seven straight in April 1997 with Boston — and hit .414 (12-for-29) in that span. He had his second three-hit game in three nights Wednesday against the Chicago White Sox.
More important is how Haselman handles the pitching staff.
“We knew he would step in with no complications because we knew he was prepared. Even before when he knew he wasn’t going to catch, he was already prepared just in case,” Kenny Rogers said.
Rogers and Rick Helling, the Rangers’ other top starter, noted that Haselman would spend hours as a backup watching tape of opposing hitters.
“Obviously with Pudge back there, you love it,” Helling said. “But with Has back there, I have just as much confidence in him as I did in Pudge.
“It’s not like he’s a guy that sits here and knows he’s backing up Pudge Rodriguez and isn’t going to play, and just shows up at the park. He comes ready to play.”
Haselman, 34, returned to Texas last November as part of the nine-player trade that sent two-time AL MVP Juan Gonzalez to Detroit.
When finalizing the Gonzalez deal, Rangers general manager Doug Melvin had Haselman added. Melvin wanted a quality backup that could give Rodriguez an occasional day off.
Haselman served as Rodriguez’s backup in 1998, hitting .314 in 40 games. He then signed as a free agent with Detroit and hit .273 in 48 games last season while backing up another All-Star, Brad Ausmus.
Melvin also needed some insurance in case of an injury, such as the broken hand Rodriguez suffered July 24 when he hit Mo Vaughn’s bat while making a throw to second.
“A lot of people forget Bill Haselman being a part of that deal. If he wasn’t, I don’t know where we’d be right now with Pudge being hurt,” Melvin said. “It’s a real key. A backup catcher of his caliber would have been difficult to get.”
Rodriguez had started more games behind the plate than any AL catcher each of the past six seasons. Haselman, who played a season-high 77 games for Boston in 1996, likely would have been the league’s least-played backup catcher had Rodriguez (.347, 27 home runs, 83 RBIs) not gotten hurt.
“Of course, that’s not the way I want to get to see the opportunity,” Haselman said. “I don’t like to see anybody get hurt, especially somebody like Pudge who offers so much to our team.
“But the fact is since he is hurt, I’m just trying to go in there and play my game and try to first and foremost catch a good game and call a good game, and go from there.”
This article originally appeared online here, and was written by Stephen Hawkins.
G106: Rangers lose well pitched game, 3-1
There’s not a whole lot to say about this one. We were outpitched. Plain and simple.
Gabe Kapler blasted a solo home run in the second inning – extending his hitting streak to 17. However, that was it for our offense. Nothing more.
Kenny Rogers pitched fairly well, going six innings, allowing two earned runs, but got no run support and lost the game. Frank Castillo pitched extremely well, and the Kapler jack was the only blemish of the day for him.
One of those games you don’t mind losing, was a great game.
G105: Rangers beat the White Sox, 7-2
Not available.
Roster Transaction
- LHP Darren Oliver placed on 15 day DL (retro
to Jul 31) - RHP Jonathan Johnson recalled from AAA
Oklahoma
G104: Rangers lose close game to White Sox, 4-3
I was at this game, and going into it, I felt like we’d get shut out 2 or 3 to nothing. James Baldwin always seems to kill us. And for the first several innings, it felt like that was going to come true. We were shut out for about 4.2 innings. We finally managed to scratch a run out of him in the bottom of the fifth with a Haselman double, and a Lamb single. That tied the game at one.
Ryan Glynn pitched equally well as Baldwin – also giving up just 1 run on 5 hits. Unfortunately, he was matched against Baldwin, or he would have gotten a win. Glynn went seven innings, allowing 6 hits and one run. An outstandingly excellent performance. Then came the downfall of the 2000 season – the bullpen. Doug Davis came in to only two batters (a strikeout and a single). Zimmerman came in and was awful, allowing the inherited runner to score, as well as one of his own. Actually, Zim probably should have had a lot more runs scored on him – he just didn’t have anything.
In the bottom of the 8th, we managed to get to Baldwin a bit – we got some runners on, and then the Chisox started playing bullpen magical chairs. Kelly Wunsch came on, only pitched 1/3 of an inning, and then Bobby Howry came on – and we got to him. We managed to load the bases, and then Gabe Kapler came through with a single, scoring two runs to tie the game up. However, Raffy made another ill advised attempt to take an extra base, ending the inning at third.
In the ninth, John Wetteland came on, and gave up a gopher ball – but retired the three outs in pretty quick fashion. However, the longball by Ranger killer Charles Johnson won the game for Chicago – we started to mount a comeback in the 9th, but Scar Green was thrown out when he overslid second base on a successful steal attempt.
G103: Rangers lose to Tigers. Cowboys lose, too!
I totally forgot this game was on, I was watching the Pittsburgh Steelers whoop the Dallas Cowboys’ asses. :) That was fun.
I saw the ninth inning – that was it. Was nice to come back against a pitcher who hadn’t given up a run since May, but our rally fell short.
Roster Transaction
- IB/DH David Segui traded to Cleveland Indians
for OF Ricky Ledee
G102: Rangers lose to Tigers 10-2
I didn’t see much of this game – as I was out shooting pool with a few friends. In reading about it, the only really interesting things were these:
Gabe Kapler extended his hitting streak to 13, and is now batting over .270. B.J. Waszgis made it into his first ever major league game, and Ricky Ledee got into his first Ranger game.
That’s about all I have to say about this one. :)
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