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No time to write commentary on this game today – too busy at work. Was nice to see a win, though.

This was totally disheartening. I really was sad after this game, and I generally don’t get that swept up in my emotions (for real) – it is after all just a game. But I really was depressed after this game. Then I went and lost a game of baseball on my Xbox, too. :(
Anyway, Kevin Mench was the story of this game, after the good pitching performance by Doug Davis. It was amusing that Kevin Mench managed to trip over his own bat out of the batter’s box – I had never seen that in 25+ years of watching baseball. :)
When I got up in the morning, I saw that John Rocker had been sent down. He deserved it, but quite frankly, I wish he pitched better, as I enjoyed watching Rocker on the mound. I hope he gets it together (although he should have done that in spring training).

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! I was at the game, too. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! The best part of the game was Mench, Arod’s home run, and a baseball toss between James Baldwin and the home plate umpire (they had three balls going at once, and the umpire threw a ball into short center field – was pretty funny). Other than that, check out this line from our pitching.

TEXAS                        ip       h   r  er  bb  so  hr    era
D Burba                       5       7   6   6   1   6   2   6.89
C Lewis (B, 1)                1 1/3   4   4   4   4   1   0   7.36
C Michalak                      1/3   0   0   0   1   0   0   6.75
T Van Poppel                  1 1/3   1   0   0   0   2   0   7.50
J Rocker                      1       1   1   0   1   0   0   6.75
D Miceli (L, 0-2)             1       2   2   2   2   1   0  11.11

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
What does a Rangers fan do after a sweep by the Mariners? He has to wear this “gift” given to him from some friends in Seattle. I tried to look excited doing it.

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We tried to win, but can we? Nooooooooooooo. Stupid bullpen. 9-7 loss to the M’s.
Arod had 5 RBI’s and two HR’s, we turned a triple play, but was that good enough? No, of course not. Our stupid bullpen. :(
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Well, we lost this game too, but it wasn’t as annoying as last night’s (at least for me). We were winning for awhile, and I thought Irabu was pitching well. Our usual problem came into play – bullpen can’t keep any runs off the board. :(
Seattle had an ejection two nights in a row, which was amusing.
Carl Everett had a pretty majestic looking home run into the upper deck in right field. Overall, one never likes to see losses, and I just had a feeling that this was going to slip away once we got to the bullpen. Hopefully we can take Sunday & Monday for a split.

Ugh. Down 5-0 in the first inning. I was driving around in my car with my wife, and I really really have a hard time getting into games when we’re down this many early. When I got home, I didn’t really pay attention to the game at all, and that’s not a bad thing, as we lost anyway. :(

Now this was awesome. Started off with just being out at the ballpark for a day game. That was nice.
It then got better when we scored some runs off of Oakland starter Mark Mulder early. Something I didn’t think would happen much at all today. Quite frankly, the way this game went, I thought it was backwards. We did what I thought the A’s would do to us.
Doug Davis was spectacular. About halfway through the game, I told my wife that I hoped we scored more than three runs, so Davis could get a shot at a complete game. He got the chance, and he got it – pitching a two hit shutout. He only faced 3 batters over the minimum. He gave up two singles, and a hit batter. It was quite nice to see this kind of pitching from us. Nolan Ryan was in the stands watching the game, I’m sure he liked that, too. :)
The other big shine was Kevin Mench, who had four RBI’s in the game, and made an awesome defensive play in the outfield. Speaking of defense, we had standout plays from Hank Blalock and Gabe Kapler too. Overall an awesome day for an awesome game of the most awesome sport there is. :)