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Matt Harrison started this game, and pitched quite well.   Six innings, six hits, one run, one walk, struck out seven.   91 pitches, so he had a good outing.

Problem is Matt Cain and the Giants were a bit better.  Cain’s line was seven innings, just three hits and two earned runs, struck out six.  However, two of the three hits were back to back solo home runs by Mitch Moreland & Mike Napoli in the second inning.  That was it other than a double by Josh Hamilton which didn’t amount to anything.   We did get a few more hits off of their bullpen guys, but no more runs.

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Skipping commentary on this one, although I will say that Derek Holland didn’t have a very good outing.

When the game winning play is a walk off wild pitch, you know it’s some kind of game.  :)

The Rangers scored in six of the nine innings played, and the Padres in four, but they had one larger crooked number than we did.  Was definitely an all over the place game.  As I’ve said numerous times, when you have a game with 19 runs and 14 hits, there’s not a lot of great pitching to be found.

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Monday night, the offense broke out in a big away against the Reds.   We did it in a compressed amount of innings, as we scored all our runs in the second (5), third (3), and fourth (4).  Didn’t score anything else after the fourth inning.  Oddly enough, eleven of the twelve runs all game against the starter, Jeff Francis, who certainly didn’t help himself with an outing like THAT this late in the spring.   It was a pretty horrible line for him..

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I’ll make this short, because walkoff losses annoy me.   My daughter was annoyed at this loss.  She was bummed out.  My daughter is starting to get old enough to be bummed when her team loses.   I’m raising a baseball fan, I think.  :)

Robert Ross looked great!  He’s doing quite well this spring, and my gut says he’s a realistic shot to make the team.  Two innings, one hit, one walk, struck out two.  Kept Pujols at bay.   I really liked him.

THe rest of the game, especially Michael Kirkman – not so much.

Grumble Grumble.

There’s a lot of stuff I could write about this game, but the only thing I really WANT to say is this.

Joe Nathan better get better in a bloody hurry.  He’ starting to legitimately scare me.  When latter Darren O’Day gives me more confidence, that’s not a good thing.

This was a game that I got to watch on TV.  I sat down with my iPad to score the game, grabbed a beer, I was ready to enjoy this.  And then I fell asleep on the sofa.  I was wiped for some reason.  It wasn’t super late, started at 8PM, but due to family concerns, I had to wait till around 10PM to start it, so I couldn’t make it through the whole game.  What I did see though was a great pitching matchup.

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Another game I didn’t see, but again, another loss.  Too many this spring.  This one came to the Reds (who used to be in Florida during March until recently).   Odd thing about this game is that there was really only one part of it I’d call “awful”.

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Colby Lewis did this game what he did a few too many times in 2011.  Gave up home runs.  If I remember right, Lewis lead the AL in home runs allowed last year, and in this game he gave up two of them in his 5 innings of work.  Also allowed a walk and NINE hits.  A dangerous combination.   As it was, he gave up six earned runs with that combination, and it was a pretty ugly outing.   Not what you want to see coming into the final stretch of spring.  Bah.

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Neftali Feliz started this game, and after his past outings, I think several Ranger fans (myself included) were watching this kind of expecting a bad outing, and leading to a big round of “can he really do this”?   Well, he answered that with a great outing.  Went three innings, allowed just two hits and a walk, punching out two.  No runs being the biggest stat.  But he came out after just three innings.  That was not intentional, he was taken out for precautionary reasons.   Later on it was said it was due to right shoulder stiffness.  That’s one of those generic injuries that can be nothing, or a mask for something huge.  I don’t think anyone likes seeing a player come out, but one that had something to prove like Neftali..  I bet he wasn’t interested in coming out of the game, either.  We’ll see what happens with him over the next week or so, but it would be fairly annoying if he had to go on the DL.  The obvious answer to that is Ogando in the rotation, and someone new in the pen.   But we don’t want to “Joba” Ogando, either, so it might be best to pick one and leave him there.

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