This was a game that I didn’t get to listed to the whole game to. That’s because my three year old got me up at 6:30 in the morning, and I passed out listening to the game on the sofa. Since it’s radio, I couldn’t back it up and replay like I could on the TiVo. I think I passed out in the fourth inning, and woke up in the eighth. I was initially confused, because the score was still 2-1. Figured that wasn’t possible. But it was. I didn’t miss any scoring, I had “seen” it all early on, as 100% of the game’s runs were scored in the first inning – by both clubs!
G67: Rangers sweep Astros with 9-3 win
In this game, the Astros tried the same trick the Rangers did the day before with Justin Grimm. The Astros ran their own kid out there making his major league debut. That would be Dallas Keuchel. While he didn’t do quite as well as Grimm did the day before, he was no slouch, either. For awhile there, I thought the Rangers were going to fall prey to a long standing problem they have. Which is when we face a guy making his major league debut, we’re pretty well shut down. That was pretty much the case through the fist five innings. We were losing 1-0 going into the bottom of the sixth. Was’t feeling good about the sweep, to be honest.
G66: Justin Grimm gets first ML win, 8-3
Nobody expects a major league team to start a season with it’s five man rotation, and run all the way through till Game 162 (and beyond) with the same five guys. There’s always guys that come up from the minors, guys from the pen who have made spot starts. It happens. All the time. To every team. The Rangers took a nice stab at it this year though. They went through till May 21st until they made their first roster move involving the 25 man roster. They were the last team to do so. When the Rangers finally started making some roster moves, they were the kind you’d expect. [Read more…]
Another Giveaway Coming Soon
I’ll be giving away copies of Josh Lewin’s Book, once I receive them from the publisher. I want to have them in hand before I run the giveaway. Look for it soon, they’re inbound.
G65: Darvish K’s 11, Rangers win 6-2
My Friday night television game on Ch21 was another Yu Darvish start, I think it’s his third start on a Friday night (perhaps more, I didn’t look it up). There was some doubt recently about how he’s faring. Overall, his numbers were quite good. Not lights out, but darned good. His stuff is great, but I suspect we won’t see the real Darvish until next year. Having said that, as of June 15th, having a pitcher with eight wins and an ERA of 3.57 is nothing to sneeze at. I think if you asked most Rangers fan if they’d take an eight win pitcher in the middle of June, they’d be quite happy with that. Yeah, yeah, I know. Huge contract, bigger hoopla surrounding his arrival, so anything short of 13-0 at this point of the year is considered a failure, right? [Read more…]
G64: Feldman again? Rangers lose 11-3
Granted, all 11 runs weren’t Feldman’s fault (and not even all the runs he gave up were his own fault – two unearned), but.. Why are we still running him out there? Robbie Ross, Rangers Captain, Nolan Ryan, Charlie Hough, hell – the ghost of Walter Johnson! Please! No more Scott Feldman as a starter. Thank you.
G63: Rangers eek out a narrow 1-0 victory over D’Backs
As much fun as it was last night watching Colby Lewis hold the D’Backs to a single run, it was so much better on this game watching Matt Harrison hold them to zero! Matt just rocked the house this game. He didn’t go nine like Lewis did, but man, when he was out there, nobody was doing much of anything. Check out these numbers:
G62: Good Colby is back, Rangers win 9-1
The Colby Lewis that had dominated in the playoffs the last few years has been mostly missing so far this season. Not like he’s been bad, he hasn’t, but that lights out version has been missing. Apparently, we found him, as he turned in another stellar outing this game (as well as the one before). This is a good thing given the recent turmoil in the starting rotation in the last couple of weeks.
Grimm Purchased
- P Justin Grimm purchased from AA Frisco
- P Yoshinori Tateyama optioned to AAA
- P Neftali Feliz moved from 15 day to 60 day DL [ Link ]
Calling up Justin Grimm was definitely a surprising move to this fan. I would have thought there were others in the pecking order above him, but apparently not. Grimm’s the man. Probably up here for a start, and then back to whence he came.
Feliz going to the 60 day DL is a procedural move, saw remarks saying this has nothing to do with his recovery status, just a way to get Grimm on the roster. Tateyama going to AAA is probably also temporary. Probably a lot of moves coming soon. Someone loses their place on the roster when Feliz comes back, though.
Uehara to DL
- P Koji Uehara placed on 15 day DL
- OF Leonys Martin recalled from AAA [ Link ]
This was done because Josh Hamilton had to go into the hospital on Friday due to a stomach virus. It was obviously decided to go with one less pitcher than one less position player, due to the positional swapout here. I wasn’t aware of Uehara being hurt, really – I wonder if this is one of those “use the DL when they’re not truly hurt” kind of moves. Oh well, Martin is probably only up here for a few games, then he goes back down. Not a big deal here, IMO.
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