Sunday, June 21, 2009

Swept In San Fran

The Rangers were recently swept by the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park, a ball park where they've never won a game. Although swept, it wasn't like they were completely awful or had bad games, and their pitching was actually the best I've seen it in a while. Their usual over-powering offense, however, was shut down causing them to lose games like 6-4, 2-1, and 3-2.


Skipping to the second game of the series, Saturday night the 22 year old, Derek Holland, pitched seven solid innings. In those seven he gave up only four hits, one run, one base on balls, and had five strike outs on the night. Personally, I think pitching a great game like this deserved a win, but better luck next time. If only the offense could have got going, they definitely could have put this game away with the game they got from Holland. Ian Kinsler's solo home-run which tied the game, was the only run Texas got for the night.

Today's game was also a great game for pitcher, Kevin Millwood. Millwood also pitched seven strong innings himself, striking out ten batters. Ten batters in seven innings is amazing, to me at least seeing as how with Texas you don't always see numbers like that. While on the mound he let up eight hits giving up three runs. Here's another pitcher who deserved the win. Again, the Rangers were down some runs when Jones blasted a two-run homer to tie. Once again, they lost the lead and couldn't find the offense to win.

It was a fun series to watch because it was a battle of pitchers and defense. One play I found myself replaying about twenty times the next day was that of second baseman, Ian Kinsler. It was in the eighth inning of Saturday night's game and it was the most amazing double play I've seen. (see double play here: http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=5143677 )

Texas now heads to Arizona to face the Diamondbacks. Even though the Rangers have lost four in a row, I wouldn't be worried. They've been having a decently successful season thus far and they'll bounce back and make up for this weekend.

2 comments:

  1. The benefit of a longer season , with more games being played than hockey, this type of loss is not discouraging. Even with being swept, you get to see some tremendous efforts put forth by individuals and all we can do is hope for the team to move forward with a stronger sense of what they need to keep on track.
    Great article.. ah, baseball ..

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  2. Thankyou :)

    Yeah, they'll get back on track..at least I hope so!

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