2000 Season

Season Notes

• 2000 Season Page at Baseball Reference
• 2000 Season page at Wikipedia
• Final Record: 71-91 (.438), 4th/4 AL West, 20.5GB
• Interleague Home: Padres, Dodgers, Diamondbacks
• Interleague Away: Diamondbacks, Giants, Rockies
• All Star Representatives (1): Pudge Rodriguez
• The Patron Saint of this website, Mark Clark, was released on July 3
• The only time we’ve played an NL opponent other than the Astros in the same season in Interleague play.
• The Interactive schedule is not available for this season – the first year MLB.com did that was 2009.

• ST1: Rangers drop first game of spring, 10-9 to Twins (3/3/2000)
• ST2: Rangers out hit by Reds, lose 8-1 (3/4/2000)
• ST3: Rangers now 0-3 with another loss to Reds, 5-2 (3/5/2000)
• ST4: Rangers finally win; 13-6 over Red Sox (3/6/2000)
• ST5: Rangers lose again, 3-1 to Devil Rays (3/7/2000)
• ST6: Rangers beat Twins, 8-6, leave 15 on base! (3/8/2000)
• ST7: Second game in a row with 8-6 score, this time a loss. (3/9/2000)
• ST8: Rangers top Toronto, 9-5 (3/10/2000)
• ST9: Rangers lose to Reds 6-5. I see Weird Al live. (3/11/2000)
• ST10: Rangers drop another one, 7-5 to Twins (3/12/2000)
• ST11: Rangers get some pitching, beat Blue Jays 6-1 (3/13/2000)
• ST12: Rangers win behind more good pitching, 3-2 (3/14/2000)
• ST13: Rangers shut out Orioles, 2-0 (3/15/2000)
• ST14: Rangers drop game to Blue Jays, 6-2 (3/16/2000)
• ST15: Rangers outslug Orioles, 13-8 (3/17/2000)
• ST16: Rangers beat Pittsburgh, 7-5 (3/18/2000)
• ST17: My Phillies beat the Rangers, 5-4 (3/19/2000)
• ST18: Rangers finally beat Reds, 6-3 (3/20/2000)
• ST19: Rangers break out the whoopass on Tampa Bay, 23-9 (3/21/2000)
• ST20: Rangers lose to Twins 4-2 (3/23/2000)
• ST21: Rangers lose pretty handily to Red Sox, 7-1 (3/24/2000)
• ST22: Rangers & Pirates play to 5-5 tie (3/25/2000)
• ST23: Rangers beat the Phillies, 7-6 (3/26/2000)
• ST24: Rangers hang on against Reds, win 9-8 (3/27/2000)
• ST25: Rangers lose to Blue Jays, 8-5 (3/28/2000)
• ST26: Rangers win finale in Florida, 6-3 against Twins (3/29/2000)
• ST27: Rangers beat the Tulsa Drillers, 6-1 (3/30/2000)
• ST28: Rangers beat Cardinals 7-3 in Arlington Sping game (3/31/2000)
• ST29: Rangers beat Astros in Houston exhibition game, 9-3 (4/1/2000)
• G1: Rangers beat ChiSox in season opener, 10-4 (4/3/2000)
• G2: Rangers bomb White Sox again, 10-4 (4/4/2000)
• G3: Rangers lose to White Sox, 12-8 (4/5/2000)
• G4: Rangers drop finale 6-2, split series (4/6/2000)
• G5: Rangers beat Blue Jays, 11-5 (4/7/2000)
• G6: Rangers shut out by David Wells and Jays, 4-0 (4/8/2000)
• G7: Rangers edge Toronto, 7-5 (4/9/2000)
• Rangers and Yankees game rained out (4/11/2000)
• G8: Rangers drop first game in Bronx to Yankes, 8-6 (4/12/2000)
• G9: Rangers lose to Yankees AGAIN, 5-1 (4/13/2000)
• G10: Rangers beat Indians, 7-2. Some fans are dumb. (4/14/2000)
• G11: Rangers beat Tribe again, 6-4 (4/15/2000)
• G12: Indians squeak by Texas with 2-1 win (4/16/2000)
• G13: Rangers screwed over by umps, Yanks win 5-4 (4/17/2000)
• G14: Rangers lose to Yankees 6-3. I’m surprisingly not mad. (4/18/2000)
• G15: Rangers lose to Yankees, 5-4 (4/19/2000)
• G16: Rangers drop 5th in a row; 10-8 game to Twins (4/21/2000)
• G17: Rangers finally win again; 8-3 over Twins (4/22/2000)
• G18: Rangers back to losing; drop 5-4 game to Twins (4/23/2000)
• G19: Rangers top Red Sox, 5-4 (4/24/2000)
• G20: Rangers lose to Red Sox & Pedro, 6-3 (4/25/2000)
• G21: Rangers suck. Red Sox win 14-4 (4/26/2000)
• G22: Rangers lose again; this time to new team (4-3 to Orioles) (4/28/2000)
• G23: Rangers lose to Orioles again 3-1; fourth overall (4/29/2000)
• G24: Rangers stop slide, win against Baltimore 8-4 (4/30/2000)
• G25: Rangers beat up on Devil Rays, 8-1 (5/2/2000)
• G26: Rangers beat Tampa again, 5-1 (5/3/2000)
• G27: Rangers come back twice, still lose, 8-7 (5/4/2000)
• G28: Rangers have comeback for the ages, beat A’s 17-16 (5/5/2000)
• G29: Rangers beat A’s with a large output again, 11-10 (5/6/2000)
• G30: Rangers lose to A’s, 7-6 (5/7/2000)
• G31: Rangers beat Mariners big, 10-1 (5/8/2000)
• G32: Rangers lose big to Mariners, 13-3 (5/9/2000)
• G33: Rangers lose to Mariners, 7-6 (5/10/2000)
• G34: Rangers lose close one to Angels, 3-2 (5/11/2000)
• G35: Rangers beat Angels big, 13-11 (5/12/2000)
• G36: Rangers top Angels again, 6-5 (5/13/2000)
• G37: Rangers lose to Angels, 7-6 (5/14/2000)
• G38: Rangers beat Tampa Bay, 6-5 (5/15/2000)
• G39: Rangers beat Devil Rays 9-7 (5/17/2000)
• G40: Rangers sweep Devil Rays behind 11-6 win (5/17/2000)
• G41: Rangers beat Orioles 8-7 (5/18/2000)
• Rangers & Orioles Rained out (5/19/2000)
• G42: Rangers beat Orioles behind good pitching, 2-1 (5/20/2000)
• G43: Rangers sweep Orioles with 6-5 victory (5/21/2000)
• G44: Rangers beat Orioles 4-3, my cat put to sleep (5/22/2000)
• G45: Rangers shut out by Jeff Suppan and KC, 3-0 (5/24/2000)
• G46: Rangers beat Royals to get series win, 5-3 (5/25/2000)
• G47: Rangers blown out by Twins, 10-2 (5/26/2000)
• G48: Rangers lose big to Twins again, 10-5 (5/27/2000)
• G49: Rangers lose annoying game to Twins, 4-3 (5/28/2000)
• G50: Rangers take out Tigers with 3-2 win (5/29/2000)
• G51: Rangers look lazy in 7-4 loss to Detroit (5/30/2000)
• G52: Rangers bounce back, beat Tigers big, 13-5 (5/31/2000)
• G53: Rangers lose to Diamondbacks, 5-4 (6/2/2000)
• G54: Rangers bounce back, beat Arizona, 4-3 (6/3/2000)
• G55: Rangers hang on, beat Diamondbacks, 7-6 (6/4/2000)
• G56: Ryan Glynn masterful; Rangers beat Dodgers, 2-0 (6/5/2000)
• G57: Rangers shut down by Eric Gagne, lose 7-1 to LA (6/6/2000)
• G58: Rangers lose to LA again, 11-6 (6/7/2000)
• G59: Rangers lose to Colorado 3-2. COLORADO? (6/9/2000)
• G60: Rangers lose to Rockies again, 12-6 (6/10/2000)
• G61: Rangers swept by Rockies with 9-8 loss (6/11/2000)
• G62: Rangers drop sixth in a row, 3-2 to Baltimore (6/13/2000)
• G63: Sigh. Rangers lose 11-10 to Orioles (6/14/2000)
• G64: Rangers stink. Lose 10-1 to Orioles for 8th in a row. (6/15/2000)
• G65: Nine in a row. 9-2 loss to Tampa Bay. Ouch. (6/16/2000)
• G66: Rangers break losing streak with 5-0 shutout win (6/17/2000)
• G67: Rangers back to losing again with 6-1 game (6/18/2000)
• G71: Luis Alicea gets inside the parker; Rangrers lose 7-4 (6/20/2000)
• G68: Rangers beat Twins, 5-2 (6/20/2000)
• G69: OK, two wins in a row now. 7-5 (6/21/2000)
• G70: Rangers at three in a row now, with 3-2 win (6/22/2000)
• G72: Rangers drop another against Devil Rays, 9-7 (6/24/2000)
• G73: Rangers beat Tampa Bay, 9-5 (6/25/2000)
• G74: Rangers can’t get by Miguel Tejada’s glove; lose 7-6 (6/27/2000)
• G75: Rangers win 5-3, I can’t see it though. (6/28/2000)
• G76: Rangers win well pitched game, 3-1 (6/29/2000)
• G77: Rangers break out big, beat Mariners 13-3 (6/30/2000)
• G78: Rangers don’t keep it together, lose to M’s 6-3 (7/1/2000)
• G79: Rangers make me sigh again by losing 11-4 (7/2/2000)
• G80: Rangers beat A’s, 8-3 (7/3/2000)
• G81: Rangers win on July 4th again, 10-7 (7/4/2000)
• G82: Rangers sweep someone with 9-4 win over A’s!! (7/5/2000)
• G83: Rangers win 4th in a row; 5-4 over Padres (7/7/2000)
• G84: Back to .500 with 8-1 win over Padres (7/8/2000)
• G85: Rangers drop one to San Diego, 4-3 (7/9/2000)
• AL beats NL in All Star Game, 6-3 (7/11/2000)
• G86: Rangers start 2nd half with 6-3 win over ARI (7/13/2000)
• G87: Rangers beat by Armondo Reynoso & DBacks, 6-1 (7/14/2000)
• G88: Rangers beat the Big Unit, 6-5 (7/15/2000)
• G89: Rangers lose to San Francisco, 6-4 (7/16/2000)
• G90: Rangers lose slugfest to Giants, 10-8 (7/17/2000)
• G91: Rangers’ pen blows another one; we lose 5-3 (7/18/2000)
• G92: Back to AL games; we still lose, 5-3 (7/19/2000)
• G93: Rangers lose 6-1 to Angels (7/20/2000)
• G94: Rangers lose big to Mariners, 12-3 (7/21/2000)
• G95: Rangers give up 10+ to Mariners again; lose 13-5 (7/22/2000)
• G96: Rangers win, beat Mariners 3-2 (7/23/2000)
• G97: Rangers lose game and Pudge, 6-5 (7/24/2000)
• G98: Rangers beat Angels 9-6 (7/25/2000)
• G99: Rangers 2-0 in Post Pudge era; win 6-5 (7/26/2000)
• G100: Rangers trump Detroit 7-3 (7/27/2000)
• G101: Rangers win big again against Tigers, 11-5 (7/28/2000)
• G102: Rangers lose to Tigers 10-2 (7/29/2000)
• G103: Rangers lose to Tigers. Cowboys lose, too! (7/30/2000)
• G104: Rangers lose close game to White Sox, 4-3 (8/1/2000)
• G105: Rangers beat the White Sox, 7-2 (8/2/2000)
• G106: Rangers lose well pitched game, 3-1 (8/3/2000)
• G107: Rangers lose high scoring game, 10-8 to Toronto (8/4/2000)
• G108: Rangers lose aother one to Toronto, 8-5 (8/5/2000)
• G109: Ryan Glynn pitches well, we beat Toronto 11-6 (8/6/2000)
• G110: Rangers shut out by Indians, 2-0 (8/7/2000)
• G111: Rangers beat up Cleveland, 11-2 (8/8/2000)
• G112: Rangers drop game to Indians, 6-4 (8/9/2000)
• G113: Rangers lose 7-3, Ryan Glynn passes out in dugout (8/11/2000)
• G114: Rangers bounce back, beat Boston 6-3 (8/12/2000)
• G115: Rangers drop finale to Red Sox, 4-2 (8/13/2000)
• G116: Rangers drop opener to the Yankees, 7-3 (8/14/2000)
• G118: Brian Sikorski dominates Yankees, we win 5-0 (8/16/2000)
• G117: Rangers lose big to Yankes, 10-2, Kapler to 28 (8/17/2000)
• G119: Rangers lose close one to Red Sox, 8-7 (8/17/2000)
• G120: Rangrers lose to Red Sox, 6-4 (8/18/2000)
• G121: Rangers dominated by Pedro; lose 9-0 (8/19/2000)
• G122: Rangers win on my birthday, 6-2 (8/20/2000)
• G123: Yankees get revenge on Sikorski, we lose 12-3 (8/21/2000)
• G124: Rangers beat the Yankees, 5-4 (8/22/2000)
• G125: Rangers lose to Yankees again, 10-9 (8/23/2000)
• G127: Rangers shut out Blue Jays, beat ’em 1-0 (8/25/2000)
• G126: Rangers lose to Yankees again, 8-7 (8/26/2000)
• G128: Rangers lose to the Jays, 9-3 (8/26/2000)
• G129: Rangers lose to Blue Jays, 6-4 (8/27/2000)
• G130: Rangers lose to Indians, 5-2 (8/28/2000)
• G131: Rangers lose UGLY to Cleveland, 12-1 (8/29/2000)
• G132: Rangers drop close one to Indans, 5-3 (8/30/2000)
• G133: Rangers win big against Indians, 14-7 (8/31/2000)
• G134: Rangers lose 7-5 to Detroit (9/1/2000)
• G135: Rangers drop another to Tigers, 5-3 (9/2/2000)
• G136: Rangers win, but Cowboys get destroyed 41-14 (9/3/2000)
• G137: Rangers take close one from White Sox, 5-4 (9/4/2000)
• G138: Rangers win 2-1 behind Jonathan Johnson, 2-0 (9/5/2000)
• G139: Sheldon plays all nine positions in 13-1 loss (9/6/2000)
• G140: Rangers bullpen blows it in 10-6 loss to Chisox (9/7/2000)
• G141: Rangers top Royals, 6-5 (9/8/2000)
• G142: Rangers beat royals again by score of 6-5 (9/9/2000)
• G143: Rangers drop finale of KC series, 13-8 (9/10/2000)
• G144: Rangers beat O’s in Game 1 of DH, 9-1 (9/12/2000)
• G145: Rangers take both ends of DH with 6-5 win (9/12/2000)
• G146: Rangers drop finale of Baltimore series, 9-4 (9/13/2000)
• G147: Rangers beat Royals big, 8-1 (9/14/2000)
• G148: Rangers win wild one against Royals, 12-11 (9/15/2000)
• G149: Rangers out of playoff contention with 8-5 loss (9/16/2000)
• G150: Rangers top Royals 6-5 (9/17/2000)
• G151: Rangers drop game to Twinkies, 3-1 (9/18/2000)
• G152: Rangers lose really badly to Twins, 15-7 (9/19/2000)
• G153: Rangers take one against Minnesota, 6-4 (9/20/2000)
• G154: Rangers lose really tight game, 2-1 (9/22/2000)
• G155: Rangers lose big 15-4; Raffy gets #400 (9/23/2000)
• G156: Rangers lose finale of home season, 9-2 (9/24/2000)
• G157: Rangers shut out by Sele and M’s, 5-0 (9/26/2000)
• G158: Rangers lose to Mariners, 6-4 (9/27/2000)
• G159: Rangers win with big offense, 13-6 (9/28/2000)
• G160: Rangers drop opener to A’s, 7-5, Dick Bosman fired (9/29/2000)
• G161: SWEET MOTHER OF GOD! Rangers lose 23-2! (9/30/2000)
• G162: Rangers shut out on season finale, 3-0 (10/1/2000)