I’m going to have to take a pass on commentiung on the Devil Rays series. I was going to do all three of them in one update on Monday, but I got stupid busy at work again, and this is about all I can say about it.
Mahay, Rhinecker, Dickey
- P Ron Mahay purchased from AAA
- P John Rheinecker optioned to AAA
- P R.A. Dickey designated for assignment [ Link ]
Rhinecker, Shouse
- P John Rhinecker recalled from AAA
- P Brian Shouse placed on 15 day DL [ Link ]
Nix down, Hyzdu up
- OF Laynce Nix optioned to AAA
- OF Adam Hyzdu purchased from AAA
- P Josh Rupe moved from the 15 day to the 60 day DL [ Link ]
G16: Rangers win in Seattle, 4-3
Well, this game was cruising along nicely. Vicente Padilla and Joel Piniero were pitching a scoreless shutout through five innings. Things were nice. The Rangers then got a few runs in the sixth. Gary Matthews broke the ice with a home run to right field. We then loaded the bases, and Kevin Mench just missed a grand slam (and $25k for someone on the Sonic contest) by a few feet. Still, he got his first two RBI’s of the season on a double the scraped the top of the wall in the left field wall. It stayed that way, and Padilla was still in the game in the bottom of the seventh. He gave up a solo home run in the seventh, and game out having pitched an excellent game. Seven innings, only thee hits, and one earned run (the HR). He did walk three, but struck out seven.
Joaquin Benoit came on, and gave up two runs after a play that initially looked like a bad call, but was probably right (the ball that Adrian Brown in right trapped). Our pen couldn’t hold it again, and we went into the ninth 3-3. Eddie Guardardo came on, and he’s someone we always seem to have good success against. Eddie threw 38 pitches in the top of the ninth – a lot of stuff happened, and we did get one run off of him in the ninth, and it was on a walked in run.
In the bottom of the ninth Cordero came on after Tom Grieve was saying that he wasn’t supposed to pitch at all, but Buck Showalter showed some support for his closer and sending him back out there after getting slammed last night. The game ended on a nice defensive play by Hank Blalock and a nice pick by Mark Teixeira. But for me the play here was the pitching by Padilla. He was quite the pitcher we’ve needed the last few years tonight, and it’s a shame he got a no decision.
We come back home to Arlington with a winning road record. That’s a nice thing to have.
Mench’s shoes are big, too
From pretty much the time that Kevin Mench became a Ranger, we kept hearing about how big his head is. Well, apparently his feet were too big, too. In reading around tonight, I saw this text on a photo caption of his.
Texas Rangers’ Kevin Mench hits a two-RBI double in the sixth inning against the Seattle Mariners, Thursday, April 20, 2006, in an MLB baseball game at Safeco Field in Seattle. Mench entered the game with zero RBIs in his first 10 games and he has missed five games this season because of a sprain in the second toe of his right foot, but a specialist has determined that Mench’s shoes were a half size too small and on Thursday, he moved to size 12 1/2 from the size 12’s he says he has worn since he was 15.
A specialist, eh? How much money did that guy charge the team and Kevin to tell him he needed a larger shoe size? The wrong shoe size really seems like a reach for the fact that he had zero RBI going into tonight’s game (which is in the bottom of the 8th inning as I write this).
Player Blogs
http://danharen.mlblogs.com/
Discovered that the A’s pitcher Dan Haren has his own blog on the mlb.com site. Made me wonder how many other players have them. I’m pretty sure the only Ranger that had one recently was David Dellucci, who is now a Phillie anyway. The first player I’m aware of that ran his own website, and this started several years ago was former Ranger pitcher CJ Nitkowski.
But I would like to see more of what Dan Haren is doing – talking about what the players do on the plane, etc.
G15: Rangers blow it late, 9-6
You know, I’m so mad at how this ended, I don’t feel like writing about it, despite the fact that I do have time to write about this one.
DeRosa, Meyer
- P Adam Eaton transferred from 15 day to 60 day DL
- 2B/OF Mark DeRosa put on 15 day DL, retroactive to Apr 15
- IF Drew Meyer purchased from AAA [ Link ]
G14: Rangers beat Mariners Tuesday, 7-4
Stupid busy at work today, no time to write anything.
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