Rangerfans.com

This game wasn’t slated to be on KRLD, but it was available via a Real Audio Link to the Red Sox broadcast feed. At least I got to hear it. I missed most of the end of the game, as I listened at work, and got called away to do something else. Thanks to Fathacker for the Real Audio Link.
Red Sox announcers aren’t that exciting. Boy, do I miss Eric & Vince. At least I did get to hear the game, though. I hate this “no radio for most spring training games”. The two Red Sox announcers did spooge a lot over Ruben Mateo, mostly over his arm.
Nice 5 run inning early on. Pitching wasn’t that bad, only gave up three runs for awhile. I know it’s still Spring training, but I don’t like to see more than 3 runs given up in a game. There were no errors by the Rangers, which is always good. Mark Clark looks like he’ll be a good pickup for us. Hope it carries over into the regular season even better! This win makes it five in a row now. We’re two over .500 for spring training so far.
Speaking of that, what’s with the KC Royals? 11-1, I think? Yeesh! If they manage to carry that through the entire 99 season, it will throw a major monkey-wrench into the arugment the “have-not’s” are pushing now for a restructuring of the revenue sharing system in baseball.
Commentary by Jim Meeks:
Tom Goodwin and Lee Stevens led the Rangers to their 5th straight win in exhibition play Wednesday by defeating the Red Sox 7-5.
Goodwin was 3 for 5, doubled, walked once and scored twice. Stevens was 3 for 3, doubled and drove in 2 runs.
Stevens followed up a string of 5 straight singles with a 2-run scoring double in the second to put the game away.
Gregg Zahn continued his hold on the backup catcher slot going 2 for 4, while John Marzano got hit in the wrist in his only plate appearance.
On the mound Mark Clark started and was fairly impressive depsite giving up 3 runs in 4 innings. Most of the hits didn’t seemed to be that hard (on the radio). Jeff Zimmerman Tony Fossas, Eric Gunderson and Al Levine all had scoreless innings in relief. Rookie Corey Lee struggled in his only inning, giving up 2 runs on 3 hits.
The Boston radio announcers were impressed by the Rangers defense. In the 3rd, left fielder Rusty Greer made an “sensational diving catch” to rob Darren Lewis.
In the 4th, the Sox announcers were thoroughly suprised at rookie Ruben Mateo’s arm, as he made a very strong throw to 2nd on “what would normally be an easy double”. Mateo, who played most of the game in right field because Goodwin played center, also grabbed a ball in the deep right-center gap in the 4th. In the 6th the announcers also raved about his speed and his base-running and called him a “very good-looking, toolsy player” and “an impressive young man”.
The Rangers now are winners of 7 of their last 9 spring games.

Another game that isn’t on the radio. Didn’t get a chance to post this game the day it was played, so I don’t have anything to say about it. Was nice to see a win though. Three straight games with runs over 10. That’s nice, but I’d like to see the runs given up go down.

Another game that isn’t on the radio. In fact, there’s no more Rangers to be heard until Saturday! Arrrrrrrrrrrgh Wow – a slugfest! Would have been nice to have seen this as I’m from Philadelphia, and I was 15 when the Phillies won the World Series in 1980. I would love to see some other teams down here at the Ballpark!
Anyways, it was nice to see the Rangers come back like this, but not nice to see them give up so many runs. Again, without being able to hear the game, there’s not much I can comment on. Was nice to get a win, though.

Rain, Rain, Rain! This game was delayed because of rain at the start – I tuned in an hour later, and they were just getting started, so I listened until the second inning when it got delayed by rain again!
McLemore is starting off with a bunch of walks in Spring training again, which is good as it was an important part of the fast start the Rangers got last year.
And then the rain came again. :) The game was postponed for good in the second inning. This time I saw on CNN Headline News that it was postponed for good. A thought occurred today. Do pre-season rainouts have to be made up?

I started listening to this game, but I should have not have given up after the 6-0 deficit. :) What a comeback. I turned the game back on right after Shawn Gallagher hit a grand slam. Dammit! That’s my fault.
It was nice to see the team explode, and not give up (unlike me) after they got down big again. I hope that kind of feeling carries over into the season. Burkett still worries me. I like Burkett, I wish he did better, but giving up six runs (even though 5 were unearned). I hope to god he at least has a 500 year. I don’t think he’ll ever have another 22 win season, but he can pitch good when he wants to. I just wish it’d happen more often than not.