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This was just like the July 4th game. We were totally shut down by the opposing pitcher (this time it’s Jimmy Haynes). Although he didn’t pitch all 9 innings, he pitched really well, and got some nice support from the bullpen to shut down the Rangers, with a total of four hits over the nine innings. Again, we had a bit of a threat in the 9th, but nothing happened.
Ryan Glynn killed himself with a million walks, two of which came around for runs. Juan Gonzalez made an awesome defensive play in the game throwing out a runner trying to score at the plate on a rocket of a throw from the bullpen on the right hand side – there was no doubt, either, he was out by a mile. This double play saved Glynn’s butt when he had walked the bases loaded. This might be Glynn’s last appearance, my gut says he’ll be going back to AAA after the All-Star game.
Jimmy Haynes of Oakland really looked great – it’s tough to do anything against a pitcher that pitches this well against you. Mike Munoz pitched a few really good innings, I thought again last night that he was an excellent pickup in the past off-season. Loaiza made another short appearance in relief – he did his job, but he doesn’t seem to be hanging around long enough at one time to know how well he really looks.
Todd Zeile did extend his hitting streak to 15 – Pudge has the current season record of 20.

Another one of these late games – the Rangers have to get to a different division, I hate all these games that start after 9PM!
Tony Phillips of the A’s got his career 2,000th hit tonight – a single. That was a nice moment.
Esteban Loaiza came off the DL, sending Danny Kolb back to AAA. I was surprised, I didn’t think Loaiza was coming back till after the All Star Game. He only pitched the final out, but I was surprised to see him here.
I don’t remember a whole lot about this game, as again I was busy doing some other things. I’m not liking all these losses inside the division. This was our chance to distance us from the rest of the division, and we didn’t do it. :(

I was at the Ballpark for this game – and quite frankly, the best thing was the fireworks show. The Rangers were dead all night. Mike Morgan gave up four runs in the first, mostly on a three run home run to Edgar Martinez, and that’s all that was needed.
The Rangers had six hits, scattered over 9 innings, and didn’t have any kind of offense until two outs in the ninth, when we had loaded the bases (of which one was a walk, and one was a hbp), but John Halama was just too much – he had his first ever shutout, and he pitched a complete game. Todd Zeile did extend his hitting streak to 12.
Again, a really great fireworks show out at the Ballpark – I’ve seen all three this year so far, and probably will go to the one towards the end of the season.

I don’t remember a whole lot about this game, but I was fairly tired during this game, both because I was sleepy, and because I was otherwise occupied – I wasn’t paying a whole lot of attention to this game.
I fell asleep before the game was over – the last thing I remember about it, the score was 9-5, which was in the top of the 6th inning.
Looking at the results, a few nice things were Zeile extended his hitting streak to the 12, Danny Kolb pitching 2 2/3 innings, giving up one hit and one run, and another home run by Mark McLemore.

This was a pretty good game, actually. The score shows a close game, and it really was a flip-flop type of game. We had the lead, then they tied it, took the lead, and we tied it right back up. We took the lead, and they tied it in the 9th, but we ended up winning it in the bottom of the ninth – Rusty Greer, of course. :)
Luis Alicea had an interesting night – he was called out on strikes twice – it really looked like they should have been balls. After the second one, Alicea started to argue, but was tossed immediately, since he had griped before. When that happened Johnny Oates came out to defend Luis, and ended up getting into quite an argument himself. He did something that really reminded me of former Ranger manager Billy Martin – he kicked dirt on the umpire and got tossed, which I thought was cool. Oates accidentally kicked the umpire, too – which I thought was really bad. A few days later (I’m writing this on the 7th), I found out that nothing will happen because of this, apparently Oates and the ump are friends or something.
Todd Zeile extended his hitting streak to 11 games, and he hasn’t struck out more than once in around 75 at bats or so – nice control at the plate. Also pitching was Jordan Zimmerman, the brother of the Rangers’ Jeff. There was a nice piece in the newspaper about the Zimmerman brothers’ father who was at the game. It’s a great story, and I hope Jeff turns out to be more than just a flash. He’s got a great story.