Skipping this game, as I got tied up with work projects, and the Rangers have already clinched. Don’t feel like writing backwards as I put in this marker (Sep 27).
G148: Rangers lose 2-1 to Seattle a second time
Skipping this game, as I got tied up with work projects, and the Rangers have already clinched. Don’t feel like writing backwards as I put in this marker (Sep 27).
G147: Cliff Lee shuts down Seattle, we win 6-1
Skipping this game, as I got tied up with work projects, and the Rangers have already clinched. Don’t feel like writing backwards as I put in this marker (Sep 27).
G146: Rangers lose to Mariners, 2-1
Skipping this game, as I got tied up with work projects, and the Rangers have already clinched. Don’t feel like writing backwards as I put in this marker (Sep 27).
Although, really, Felix Hernandez almost got a no hitter. That’s pretty much the story of this game.
G145: Rangers sweep Tigers with 11-7 win
Skipping this game, as I got tied up with work projects, and the Rangers have already clinched. Don’t feel like writing backwards as I put in this marker (Sep 27).
Still, I can use this, even though it was just a two game series.
G144: Rangers beat Tigers, 11-4
Skipping this game, as I got tied up with work projects, and the Rangers have already clinched. Don’t feel like writing backwards as I put in this marker (Sep 27).
A few Random notes
- The Rangers have 19 games left in the season. They have to go 12-7 to get to Nolan Ryan’s 92 win spring training prediction.
- The Rangers are 8.5 games up on Oakland, who is at 71-71 at the moment.
- The Magic Number to win the division is currently at 12. It could be 11 after tonight, as Oakland is playing KC
- Michael Young needs 33 hits to get to 200 (with 19 to play). Not impossible, but he can’t afford hardly any ofers – or even just one hitters from this point forward.
- I’ve always said my head would explode if the World Series was Phillies vs Rangers. While I’m not making a claim that’s who will get there, one has to say there’s a chance of it happening now that there’s a very realistic chance that both will make the playoffs. I still don’t know what I’ll do if it ends up being those two.
Also, two random pictures. A PR woman sent me these. They were taken Friday night at the Rangers game during the first pitch celebration. For some reason they had the Captain Morgan Rum character there. Oooh, hold me back. I’m even MORE excited about the game now!
Seriously, they had their celebration with Johnny Narron. This is amusing that they’d put Johnny Narron with him, because the whole reason Narron is on the team is to act as Josh Hamilton’s personal “don’t fall off the wagon” guy. What with Josh being an alcoholic, it was a mild eyebrow raiser that they’d put Hamilton’s “don’t get drunk” guy with a character who is there to promote a company whose most famous product is Rum.
G143: RANGERS SWEEP YANKEES WITH 4-1 WIN!
A lot has been made about how bad Cliff Lee has pitched his last few outings, and that if it continued, he’d be disinclined to stay here. I think the biggest thing that can help us stay here is not Chuck Greenberg’s money, it’s us getting into the playoffs and doing something once we get there. Not just repeat the 96-98-99 performances. So it was quite gratifying to see Cliff Lee pitch like Cliff Lee on Sunday. He weight eight innings plus, throwing just two hits, and allowing one run. He walked a few too many for Cliff Lee (three), but when he came out of the game, it didn’t look like he HAD to come out, but I understand why. His last batter was a call that was really quite a bad call by the home plate umpire. Should have been a strike. It was called a ball, and Lee came out. The whole walk from the mound to the dugout, Lee was glaring at Alfonso Marquez. The amusing thing is when the game was over, and Lee was walking to the mound for the celebration, there was more glaring in the direction of Marquez. Not that I think Lee really NEEDS motivation, but that kind of thing probably can’t hurt. Hopefully his back really is better, and we get this Cliff Lee as the rest of the season and into the post season gets here. It will be needed, that’s for sure.
On paper, assuming the good Cliff Lee showed up, I figured this was the easy win of the series. Moseley? Oh come on. That’s not a real Yankees pitcher. That shouldn’t have a been a problem, but it was. Through six, we hadn’t managed a lot, the game was tied 1-1. Then Moseley ran out of gas, and we got to him. In the seventh, we had four straight two out singles, which pushed across the three runs which gave us the series sweep.
I know a lot in the press is being made about how we didn’t face Andy Pettite, how we didn’t face CC Sabathia. No, we didn’t. BUT, we swept the Yankees. That helps in the “head game” department, and it made things difficult for the Yankees against the Rays, who are hot on their heels.
Wow. Swept the Yankees. Now if we can only do it in October, I might have to be come forth with a Philly style response to the Yankees ghost of the playoffs, since I found out that more people than I knew got a kick out of a msg I left for the Yankees during the World Series last October.
G142: Rangers win very oddly against NY, 7-6
When you think of all the ways there are to win a game, the way that we won this game was not the way you’d think. Yeah, I know Mariano Rivera is still around 15 seasons later. That’s not to say he’s an over the hill hack, he’s still a major threat. But it’s not quite the castle wall he used to be say 10 years ago. He can be beat yes, but he will still beat you more often than not.
Which is why the fact that we won on a walkoff hit by pitch was so odd. The entire bottom of the ninth was out of character, but the HBP was something you’d expect a far lesser pitcher to do, not the last guy in the majors who is allowed to wear #42 (unless for some reason Butch Husky makes a comeback).
This was another one of those close, back and forth jobs.
Rangers up 1-0
Yankees up 2-1
Game tied 2-2
Rangers up 4-2
Rangers up 4-3
Rangers up 5-3
Yankees up 6-5
Rangers win 7-6
Those were all the lead changes. The interesting thing about this game is that with the 13 hits the Rangers got, 11 of them were singles, and only two were anything else (both doubles). And of course a big hit by pitch. :)
This isn’t one of those games where I remember there being a ton of memorable events. Just the back and forth and the closeness of the game was what made it good.
Oh yeah, and just in case you didn’t know.. Mariano Rivera gifted us the win by hitting Jeff Franceour. Oh yeah. :)
Chris Davis Back
- 1B Chris Davis recalled from AAA
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 92
- 93
- 94
- 95
- 96
- …
- 520
- Next Page »