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Tom Grieve: “That’s some kind of win right there!”
Early on, I thought this game was going to be a big offensive noisemaker, and a loss. After three innings, we were down 7-3. Derek Holland was pretty bad, didn’t make it out of the second inning, throwing 53 pitches, giving up six runs. Bah.
But we fought back, making it 7-5 in the 6th, and then tying the game 7-7 in the bottom of the ninth. The bottom of the ninth one was rather exciting, as it was a two run home run by Michael Young. I don’t think there’s ever a bad home run in the bottom of the ninth, even when you’re down 15 runs or so. :)
Anyway, in the bottom of the 11th, we scored on a pretty bizarre play to win. Elvis Andrus was on second base, and Josh Hamilton was at the plate. He hit a slow grounder to shortstop, one that wasn’t quickly picked up. Josh busted ass down the line, and beat it out, but all the time Elvis was running. Never stopped, kept running home, and the first baseman stalled just enough looking at the umpire at first, so that his throw home was just delayed enough to allowe Elvis to win the game. Walk off infield single.
If you click on the “MLB Link” above this text, and then on the video tab, you can see a highlight of this play. It’s quite cool to watch!

The Rangers pulled off a salvage win in the series finale in Detroit. Alexi Ogando, easily our biggest surprise this year, went 6.1 innings, allowing just two runs. IT was his third win over the Tigers this season.
Our offense was a triple by Michael Young and ten other singles. If Michael Young played here, given the way he goes to right center, I could see him leading the league in triples pretty easily. :)

Much like the game before it, this one was one on home runs by the Tigers, latter in the game. Alex Avila & Ryan Raburn handled this one.
Sigh. What is it with Detroit?

A late comeback wasted. Nelson Cruz & Mike Napoli both hit home runs in the top of the 8th. However, Brennan Boesch hit one of his own in the bottom of the 8th off of Mike Adams to win the game.
Not a great debut for Mike Adams as a Ranger. Probably won’t be the way he performs overall (aka pull a Eric Gagne for the Red Sox), but you never want to see that in Game 1 with your new import.