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ST10: Rangers lose to M’s Sunday 4-2

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Since Saturday’s game was rained out, I was looking forward to this one, because it was on the radio with Eric & Vic. However, after I came home from church, I passed out on the couch, and all I got to hear of the game was the final out. Oh joy. :) If this were TV, it wouldn’t have mattered, as I would have TiVo’ed the game. :)
It appears that the big star of this game is Seattle pitcher Felix Hernandez. I don’t think anyone who follows baseball well doubts this kid’s ability, so I won’t go into that here (getting tired of hearing the word phenom). Anyway, he did a great job against us, something I expect to be saying a few more times this season. He went three innings, gave up no runs on three hits and three strikeouts (with one walk). Overall, a really good performance, although the box score can’t tell you about his “stuff”, which when he’s on is pretty much impossible.
Josh Rupe was our starter and went 3.1 innings, giving up 2 runs on 4 hits and no walks, while striking out three. Not a great performance numbers wise, but not horrible, either. Juan Dominguez, who by all acounts is falling out of favor with the team, gave up the other two runs in his 2.2 IP. Scott Feldman & Kevin Walker combined for two innings of shutout ball to finish up the game.
Offensively, we were led by Kevin Mench, who went 2 for 3 with a run scored. Phil Nevin continued his offensive barrage, going just 1 for 2, but he did drive in 2 RBI on a double, giving him about 5,000 RBI this spring so far. :)
Funny, my report sounds pretty positive, but we lost the game. :(

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Fantasy Baseball

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Just wanted to say thanks to those of you who signed on to my annual free fantasy baseball league over at Yahoo Fantasy Baseball. We had our draft tonight, and I think about half the league showed up (I didn’t count, really). Draft went well, had some good chatting – and one of the guys actually paid to be on the draft from a hotel in Hawaii or something like that. That was pretty cool! To those who didn’t or couldn’t make it (one guy joined the Army, so he’s got a good excuse), I hope your drafted teams serve you well, too.

Doug Brocail has heart surgery

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Read this afternoon that former Ranger reliever Doug Brocail had heart surgery. Something like that is never good. He’s two years younger than me, so I don’t like hearing stuff like that. Don’t like hearing that stuff about people no matter what their age is. I’ll have a small prayer tomorrow at church for Doug and his family. If you’re so inclined, do that yourself, as he was a nice guy, even if he wasn’t our best pitcher most of the time.

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Roster Moves

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  • IF Aarom Baldiris optioned to AA
  • C Mike Nickeas assigned to minor league camp
  • OF Ruddy Yan assigned to minor league camp

Rangers rained out Saturday

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Saturday’s game against the Rockies was rained out. This ended a streak of 143 straight days without rain the Phoenix area. The Dallas area had a taste of that not too long ago.
Kameron Loe lost his start today because of the weather, but did get work in with indoor simulated games.
Here is a story on the Rangers site about the rainout.

Rangers beat Team Japan on Thursday 8-4

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I forgot that we played a second game on Thursday evening, going against the Japanese World Baseball Classic team. This was an exhibition game, it didn’t count in the spring training standings – was also a split squad game.
It’s pretty hard to write about this, as I can’t seem to locate a box score for it anywhere. If you know of one, please leave a comment below where to find it. This is one I would have liked to have watched on TV. From what I can see, it appears to be a pretty evenly played game through five, when we were up 2-1. However, it broke out from there, as we scored two in the 6th and four in the 7th, to essentially seal the deal.
Some highlights: Ian Kinsler went two for three with an RBI, RA Dickey went three innings giving up just one run, and John Danks threw three innings of scoreless relief for the win. For Japan, their starter Daisuke Matsuzaka went four innings, giving up just one lone run – their pen let them down.

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Mack Brown to throw out first pitch Apr 3rd

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A special thanks to Matt over at Bevo Sports for tipping me off to this story. Apparently Texas longhorns coach Mack Brown, along with Darrell Royal will be throwing out first pitches on opening day for the Rangers on April 3rd. This isn’t a huge suprise to me, as the Rangers have been doing a Texas Hero tradition for opening day first pitch for as long as I can remember. Here’s Matt’s full story.

In an exclusive interview earlier today on SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket, Texas Rangers’ owner Tom Hicks announced that on opening day the Texas Rangers will honor the 2005 National Champion Texas Longhorns, with Mack Brown and Darrell Royal throwing out the first pitches.
This comes on the heels of the Rangers going after Roger Clemens, a former Texas Longhorn himself. I wonder if this is just one more tactic in trying to lure the indecisive Roger Clemens to the Rangers?