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Home runs all over the place on this one. Arod hit his 50th in the first, Carlos Pena got his third, Raffy had his 46th – hell, even Scott Sheldon got in the act!
I’m writing this 5 days later, I don’t remember much about this one than all the home runs. :)

Didn’t get to go to the final home game of the season, due to the fact that I have a bowling league that starts at 6PM, and there would have been no way to get from Arlington to Garland within an hour, especially at rush hour traffic. Turns out the game wasn’t over until 5:35PM anyway, and unless Mr. Hicks was going to fly me by helicopter back to Garland, I couldn’t go.
We ended up the home season 41-41. Not all that bad I guess considering our overall record. Hope we do better next year.

About the only positive thing you can say about this game is that we still have not been shut out this year. Oh yeah, Danny Kolb & Juan Moreno were really good out of the bullpen. Other than that – we sucked. :)
This was bittersweet for me, as it was the last baseball game I’ll be going to until next April. I’ll really miss it. I would have gone to the Wed final home game, but it’s at 2PM. I have a bowling league on Wed, and I have to be there at 6PM. Not enough time to get from Arlington to Garland. :(

Well, after the sweep of Anaheim, I guess we’re back to reality with the Mariners coming in.
We lost this game – and it showed – we lookd pretty bad out there. I was at the game, but I admit I didn’t pay as much attention, as I was with a friend of mine who I tend to talk a lot with, so I was missing big chunks of the game.
Didn’t miss much from the looks of the wire reports.

I didn’t see or hear any of this game due to being over some friends’ house and watching football.
However, it was really nice to see that Arod broke the HR records of both Ernie Banks, as well as the Ranger team record. Looking good for the first 50 HR season by any Ranger player ever. Raffy continues to hit HR’s lately too, getting his 45th.
Rick Helling was great again, going 7 innings, and giving up only one run – he left with 98 pitches, I wonder why he left early?

I didn’t see or hear any of this game, but in looking at the box score, I see Raffy really opened it up with two home runs, as well as 3 RBI’s. Aaron Myette pitched pretty good, going 7 and giving up 4. Overall a nice win, although I didn’t see any of it. :)

I was at this game, one of the last of the season I’m going to. Kind of bittersweet having baseball back after the national tragedy, yet being so close to being over for the season as well. I might feel different if the Rangers had any playoff hopes left.
Anyway, Rob Bell continued to pitch mediocre, he wasn’t horrible, but he wasn’t great. Arod on the other hand tied Ernie Banks’ SS HR record with his 47th, and Carlos Pena had a real mixed bag. He fell a HR short of the cycle, but had a really rough time in the field. He’s young, he’ll put it together eventually.

I didn’t see or hear any of this game – I was watching some other TV this evening – Whose Line is it Anyway, followed by the President, and then my wife watched Big Brother 2’s finale – by that point, I wasn’t interested in watching what was left of the game, and by the score, eh – I didn’t miss anything. :)
Looking at the boxscore, I see Raffy had another home run, and Mike Young went 3 for 4, in addition to Ruben Sierra going 2 for 4 with an RBI. Not particularly stellar offensive performance overall, but still was nice to see another HR by the Rangers. Pitching wise, two folks who have turned out to be busts gave up the runs – Darren Oliver & Mark Petkovsek. Mark gave up three in one inning (on a HR to Eric Chavez).
I’m going to the game Friday night against the Angels. Hopefully we win that.

Game two back after the rather unscheduled break, and the Rangers big bats came out in a big way.
I didn’t see much of this, as I was at my bowling league, and was 10 lanes away from the closest TV, but what little I saw looked good. Doug Davis continued to look good early. I’m very confident in him now – moreso than some of our regulars (Helling/Rogers). Arod hit his 46th HR of the year, which I think puts him one behind Jim Thome, as well as Ernie Banks for the all time HR record by a shortstop.
I got home from bowling, and turned the latter part of the game on, and saw the two home runs by Pena & Haselman. Overall a good game to win – kept the A’s from clinching the Wild Card a little, although the Mariners officially clinched the West last night thanks to us. :)