Put Your Hands Up, The Rangers Are In Town - A MLB 09 'Chise

[Scott]

GAME 3 OF 3

Texas (7-7) vs. Toronto (13-3)

STARTING PITCHERS

Matt Harrison (1-0, 3.86 ERA) vs. Dustin McGowan (0-1, 7.71 ERA)

Team Matchup

20th AVG 1st
t-22nd HR t-11th
t-22nd R t-6th
t-28th SB t-3rd
11th ERA 7th
13th FLD% t-6th

[Scott]

Blue Jays sweep Rangers, hand out 4th straight loss

This one was in the Blue Jays hands right off the get go. Though the Rangers did get 10 hits, all of them were singles. The hitting is really struggling, we hope to change that tomorrow in Baltimore. They look like they're a half second behind said Hitting Coach Rudy Jaramillo. In the three games in Toronto, Texas could only score one run. Definitely not something you'd see with this supposed high powered offense. Texas will head onto Baltimore for a 3 game set against the Orioles who are just 2-7 at home.

Before the game, Dustin Nippert was recalled from Oklahoma City and Darren O'Day was optioned down. Nippert was 3-0 with a 3.72 ERA for the Redhawks.

Texas 1, Toronto 11
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E TEX (7-7) 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10 0 TOR (13-3) 3 0 0 1 3 2 2 0 X 11 19 1	April 23, 2009 Rogers Centre Toronto, Canada
WIN: McGowan (1-1) LOSS: Harrison (1-1)

Texas Rangers Hitters AB R H BI AVG Kinsler 2B 5 0 0 0 .200 Young 3B 4 0 1 0 .268 Hamilton DH 4 0 2 0 .327 Byrd LF 5 0 2 0 .250 Murphy RF 5 1 2 0 .206 Davis 1B 3 0 0 0 .240 Jones CF 3 0 2 0 .384 Teagarden C 3 0 1 1 .181 Andrus SS 4 0 0 0 .183 TEX TOTALS 36 1 10 1 BATTING RBI: T. Teagarden (1) HBP: M. Young (1), J. Hamilton (2), C. Davis (2), A. Jones (1) SF: T. Teagarden (1) BASERUNNING FIELDING Pitchers IP H R ER ERA M. Harrison L, 1-1 4.1 9 4 4 5.06 J. Jennings 1.2 7 5 5 7.94 D. Nippert 2.0 3 2 2 9.00 TEX TOTALS 8.0 19 11 11 PITCHING Strikeouts: Harrison (2), Jennings (1), Nippert (4)

Toronto Blue Jays Hitters AB R H BI AVG Scutaro SS 5 2 3 2 .333 Hill 2B 5 0 2 1 .333 Wells CF 5 0 0 0 .266 Rolen 3B 4 2 3 0 .396 Rios RF 5 2 4 4 .378 Overbay 1B 4 1 0 0 .262 Snider LF 4 2 3 1 .345 Barajas C 4 1 2 2 .270 McDonald DH 4 1 2 1 .333 TOR TOTALS 40 11 19 11 BATTING 2B: T. Snider (3) HR: M. Scutaro (2), A. Rios 2 (2), R. Barajas (3) RBI: M. Scutaro 2 (10), A. Hill (5), A. Rios 4 (14), T. Snider (8), R. Barajas 2 (6), J. McDonald (5) HBP: L. Overbay (2) GIDP: V. Wells 2 (4) BASERUNNING SB: Scutaro (2) CS: Rios (2) FIELDING E: Scutaro (2) Pitchers IP H R ER ERA D. McGowan W, 1-1 6.0 9 1 1 5.85 B. League H, 2 1.0 1 0 0 9.81 S. Camp 2.0 0 0 0 3.37 TOR TOTALS 9.0 10 1 1 PITCHING Strikeouts: McGowan (6), League (1), Camp (3)

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[Scott]

GAME 1 OF 4

Texas (7-8, L4) vs. Baltimore (3-13, L1)

STARTING PITCHERS

Kevin Millwood (1-1, 1.71 ERA, 20 K) vs. Koji Uehara (0-2, 9.95 ERA, 11 K)

Team Matchup
20th AVG 21st
t-25th HR t-3rd
t-23rd R 14th
15th ERA 29th

Preview: After losing 4 straight to open the season, the Rangers had a nice little 7 game win streak before hitting a road block in Toronto. They look to get back on track against Baltimore, who is looking for revenge against Texas who swept them in Arlington April 13th-15th. The bad news for Baltimore is they'll be facing Millwood, Padilla & McCarthy, the Rangers best three pitchers while the Orioles will have Uehara, Hendrickson & Hill (a combined 0-7, 9.04 ERA) .

Ian Kinsler continues to struggle who is just 5 for his last 31, he could be dropped from the top of the order to #2 and allow Michael Young (who at least has a .290 OBP) or David Murphy (.303 OBP, if he's in the lineup). The two people hitting has been Andruw Jones (.385) & Josh Hamilton (.328). Hamilton has raised his average from .280 to .328 in the past 3 games.

[Scott]

Rangers lose game on controversial call

[font=Arial Narrow] Now the Rangers will not blame the guys in blue on this game, but they sure did play a crucial part. Andruw Jones, whos playing time is going to be limited in the next few days, provided a solo Home Run to left field, his 1st of the year in the 2nd inning to give Millwood an early 1-0 lead. Baltimore would come back in the bottom of the 3rd with an RBI single by Nick Markakis scoring Brian Roberts. In the bottom of the 6th is when the Orioles offense really got rollin. Scoring 5 runs on an 2 run single by Pie & 3 run HR by Ty Wigginton. Texas would answer with 4 in the 7th off a 3 run homer by David Murphy, his 1st on the year and an RBI single by Ian Kinsler, who is desperately trying to break out of a huge slump. Now for the controversy.... Chris Davis comes in to pinch hit for rookie OF Greg Golson, who entered the game for ejected OF Marlon Byrd. Davis hits a grounder to Mora, who overthrows the bag and it goes into the stands. Now Vizquel comes into the game to run for Davis at 2nd for some extra speed. Single to right field by Murphy, Vizquel rounds third and he's called.....








OUT? As you can see, he is blatantly safe, the Rangers will have revenge.

Andruw Knows It's Gone

Texas 5, Baltimore 6
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E TEX (7-8) 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 5 5 1 BAL (3-13) 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 X 6 11 2	April 24, 2009 Camden Yards Baltimore, MD
WIN: Uehara (1-2) LOSS: Millwood (1-2) SAVE: Sherrill (3)

Texas Rangers Hitters AB R H BI AVG Kinsler 2B 4 0 1 1 .204 Young 3B 4 0 0 0 .254 Hamilton DH 4 0 0 0 .308 Jones CF 4 1 1 1 .372 Blalock 1B 3 1 0 0 .268 Byrd RF 2 0 0 0 .240 Golson RF 0 1 0 0 .333 Davis PH 1 0 0 0 .235 1-Vizquel, PR 0 0 0 0 .000 Murphy LF 3 1 3 3 .281 Saltalamacchia C 4 0 0 0 .234 Andrus SS 3 1 0 0 .173 TEX TOTALS 32 5 5 5 BATTING HR: A. Jones (1), D. Murphy (1) RBI: I. Kinsler (3), A. Jones (4), D. Murphy 3 (4) HBP: G. Golson, H. Blalock BASERUNNING CS: I. Kinsler (2) FIELDING E: E. Andrus (3) Pitchers IP H R ER ERA K. Millwood L, 1-2 5.1 9 6 6 3.42 J. Rupe 0.2 0 0 0 1.13 D. Nippert 2.0 2 0 0 4.50 TEX TOTALS 8.0 11 6 6 PITCHING Strikeouts: K. Millwood (2), J. Rupe (1), D. Nippert (2) WP: K. Millwood (2)

Baltimore Orioles Hitters AB R H BI AVG Roberts 2B 4 1 2 0 .288 Jones CF 3 0 1 0 .238 Markakis RF 4 0 1 1 .344 Huff 1B 4 1 1 0 .349 Mora 3B 4 1 2 0 .234 Zaun C 3 1 2 0 .333 Pie LF 4 1 1 2 .153 Wigginton DH 4 1 1 3 .368 Izturis SS 4 0 0 0 .098 BAL TOTALS 34 6 11 6 BATTING 2B: A. Huff (4) HR: T. Wigginton (1) RBI: N. Markakis (8), T. Wigginton 3 (4), F. Pie 2 (2) BASERUNNING SB: B. Roberts (4) CS: B. Roberts (1) FIELDING E: M. Mora (1), C. Izturis (2) Pitchers IP H R ER ERA K. Uehara W, 1-2 6.2 4 5 4 8.38 C. Ray H, 2 1.1 0 0 0 5.40 G. Sherrill SV, 3 1.0 1 0 0 2.25 BAL TOTALS 9.0 5 5 4 PITCHING Strikeouts: K. Uehara (8), G. Sherill (1)

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[Scott]

GAME 2 OF 4

Texas (7-9, L5) vs. Baltimore (4-13, W1)

STARTING PITCHERS

Vicente Padilla (1-1, 4.91 ERA) vs. Mark Hendrickson (0-3, 9.45 ERA)

Team Matchup
22nd (.254) AVG 19th (.261)
13 (t-19th) HR 21 (t-4th)
57 (23rd) R 70 (14th)
18th (4.19) ERA 29th (5.76)

Preview: Texas continues to struggle with their bats after getting just 5 hits in their last game, but still managed to score 5 runs, which should have been 6 barring a right call. Padilla sets to face Mark Hendrickson who has struggled so far this year. Nelson Cruz is set to return in a few days, which should help the Rangers offense.

[Marino]

Looked out to me.

[cubsfan203]

Oh wow, sucks that you have to use those ugly batting helmets.

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Quote: Originally Posted by marino13882

Looked out to me.