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I got way behind, and as such I’m offering minimal commentary for the eight games I let slide. :)
Nice comeback after dropping a couple. Three home runs, three doubles, and a pile of other hits is more like it for our offense. Not the molasses we’ve been stuck in. Hopefully this isn’t a one off. EVeryone hit, except Moreland, who was the only ofer.
Colby Lewis had his best outing of the season so far. Went eight innings, allowed just six hits, and two runs. Punched out six, walked one. Good outing. Need to keep this up.

I got way behind, and as such I’m offering minimal commentary for the eight games I let slide. :)
Despite outhitting the A’s 11-9, the Rangers lost 3-1. CJ Wilson pitched pretty decently, but was a hard luck loser, being let down by defense. He gave up all three runs, but only one was earned.
Our offense was all singles (11), and a few walks (3). Our offense looked like the A’s offense. That won’t win a ton of games for sure.

I got way behind, and as such I’m offering minimal commentary for the eight games I let slide. :)
Ogando looked decent again. Not awesome, but OK. He only gave up two runs in six innings, but got a no decision when Darren Oliver gave up three runs (although just one earned).
The Rangers offense was bunched. Seven hits in all, one double, six singles. Kinsler, Andrus, & Beltre had two each. The other was Moreland. Not a lot of offense, which seems to be a recurring theme lately. Not liking that.

I didn’t see much of this game, I was at Wednesday night church services, but I did get to see a little bit of the Gameday on my phone. I got to watch via my phone as the Rangers tied the game at 2, then went up 6-2 in the bottom of the third. By the time I got home, the game was 6-5 in the sixth. I watched Cody Eppley give up the tying run.
But Mitch Moreland saved it in the bottom if the seventh with a solo home run onto Greene’s hill – to the same kid who caught the ball on the fly for the second time in a week. :)
Holland was pretty bad today like Harrison was last night. Arthur Rhodes pitched a scoreless inning for the hold, and Darren Oliver got the save in the ninth.
Given I saw so little of this game, and I’m in a hurry today, I’m doing a short one. It wasn’t great to see another bad starter, but it was good to see the team come back and get the win, and hold it in the end.
Thu afternoon is the final game of the series, we need to take that to get a split.

This game did not start out good. Here’s what happened with the first six batters:
Single. Single. Walk. Single. Walk. Walk. At that point, we were down 3-0, with the bases loaded, and nobody out – IN THE TOP OF THE FIRST. Ugh. After a double play (which itself scored a run), there was another single, for yet another run scored. We’re down 5-0 in the first inning.
The Rangers picked up a few in the bottom of the second to make it 5-3, but that was as close as we got. All of the Ranger runs came in the second inning. Four hits in a row. Double, single, double, single. That was it. Our three runs.
Just to stamp the point into this game that we weren’t going to win it, the first batter in the top of the third was Adam “Krusher” Lind, who homered to lead off the inning. So much for changing momentum.
Actually, to be honest, after the top of the fourth inning, all the scoring was over – for both teams. The 5th through 9th were all zeroes. But the game was essentially over at that point anyway.
Matt Harrison had clearly his worst outing of the season, and I’d wager into last season, too. This was pretty awful. Three innings, eight hits, three walks, and SEVEN earned runs. While his ERA is still a respectable 3.69 after this outing, it was a lot less before it.
Bleargh. That won’t help several of my fantasy teams.