What more needs to be said about this one? Barry Zito dominated. Totally.

Again, no time to update – finishing up a project this week at work. Nice to take 3 out of 4 from the World Champs. Should have been a sweep, though.

Again, no time to update – finishing up a project this week at work. A frustrating loss. We were up, and had a big bullpen meltdown. :(

Bit busy at work today – no time to write commentary. Still, nice to see another win.

I went to this game tonight. Every baseball fan’s dream came true over the weekend. My wife came to me and said “Hey, let’s go to the baseball game on Monday”. We did, took a couple of Dr. Pepper cans for $10 off tickets, and went. Got the best game I’ve seen pitched by a Ranger pitcher in quite awhile. Ismael Valdes was wonderful (contract extension is due guys!). He went 8 innings, and threw a 5 hit shutout. Was really masterful, and is something I wish we could see more often. Put that together with the way John Thompson has pitched the last two times out, and it makes a poor Ranger fan’s heart go all aflutter – I don’t know what to do with good pitching! :)
On the other side of the plate, we got three home runs – two from Carl Everett into the upper deck of the home run porch, and another by Blalock. We lead the majors again in home runs, but still have way too many of our runs from that. It’s fine I suppose if you can keep it up, but if the power goes away, so does our offense. :(
It was also really great to hear Chuck Morgan at the ballpark again. This was my third game of the season, and it’s great having Chuck back. My wife also really loved the Rangers Captain – said he was cute. I also like the mascot, too. Just wish he’d get around the ballpark more.
Anyway, we could use a few more games like this. Even though we’re under 500 and in last place, we’re only two games out of first as of today with the other three teams in our division all tied for first place. :)

Darnit. This one annoyed me for two reasons. First, we lost. Second, I missed the end of the game. I record Ranger games on my TiVo, and I pad them with an hour – because that’s normally more than enough, even if they go an inning or two extra. However, 13 inning games are a problem. The game ran out for me in the top of the 13th right as Sasaki came in.
What a waste of a good pitching performance by John Thomson. Thomson is looking pretty good so far this year – so far the most consistent pitcher on the staff, which I thought would be Valdes (who isn’t doing bad himself). Anyway, I hope Thompson can keep this up – if he does this the majority of the season, it’ll be really cool to have someone like that pitch for us. Arod had another home run, as did Todd Greene – who had a great day, even if he had the worst baseball day of his life (referring to his cousin, the former Iraq POW). Anyway, Bret Boone had TWO home runs. One to take the lead which Greene countered, but one in the bottom of the 13th.
Would have liked to have had a win to take the series, but given our track record the last few years, I’ll take playing good, I suppose. :)