The Team from the West - Texas Rangers Franchise

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Moving my franchise from Virtualsports to here

Game: MLB 08 The Show
Sliders: Regular
Rosters: Default
Games: 162
Goal: Win The Divison or Wild Card [ ]

Uniforms

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Rangers sign Bartolo Colon & Mike Sweeney, Release veterans Padilla & Bradley

Arrlington- Today the Texas Rangers signed Colon & Sweeney to 1 Year deals. However they had to release players. 2 of 3 were Padilla & Bradley. The other one was to be named later after spring training.

The new rotation may look some what like this
1. Kevin Millwood/Brandon McCarthy
2. Kevin Millwood/Brandon McCarthy
3. Derek Holland / Scott Feldman / Bartolo Colon
4. Derek Holland / Scott Feldman / Bartolo Colon
5. Derek Holland / Scott Feldman / Bartolo Colon

The New Lineup
1. 2B - Ian Kinsler
2. LF - David Murphy
3. 3B - Michael Young
4. DH - Hank Blalock
5. CF - Josh Hamilton
6. C - Jarrod Saltalamaccia
7. 1B - Mike Sweeney
8. RF - Nelson Cruz
9. 2B - Ryan Roberts

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New Rotation

1. Kevin Millwood

2. Brandon McCarthy

3. Derek Holland

4. Scott Feldman

5. Bartolo Colon

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AT.
(0-0) Texas Rangers AT. Seattle Mariners (0-0)

Safeco Field

Game 1

Kevin Millwood (0-0) 0.00 ERA Vs. Felix Hernandez (0-0) 0.00 ERA

Game 2

Brandon McCarthy (0-0) 0.00 ERA Vs. Jarrod Washburn (0-0) 0.00 ERA

Game 3

Derek Holland (0-0) 0.00 ERA Vs. Miguel Batista (0-0) 0.00 ERA

Players to Watch

SP - Derek Holland ll Ichiro Suzuki - RF

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Texas Bullpen spoils Millwoods' quality start
AT.
(0-1) Texas Rangers AT. Seattle Mariners (1-0)

TEAM ll 1 ll 2 ll 3 ll 4 ll 5 ll 6 ll 7 ll 8 ll 9 ll R ll H ll E
TEX ll 0 ll 3 ll 0 ll 1 ll 0 ll 0 ll 0 ll 0 ll 1 ll 5 ll 17 ll 0
SEA ll 0 ll 0 ll 1 ll 0 ll 2 ll 0 ll 0 ll 5 ll X ll 8 ll 12 ll 0
W- Horacio Ramirez (1-0) L- Kason Gabbard (0-1) S - J.J. Putz

Pitchers
Kevin Millwood: 6 IP ll 8 H ll 3 ER ll 1 BB ll 7 K's
Kason Gabbard (L, 0-1): 1 IP l 2 H l 2 ER l
C.J. Wilson (BS, 1) 1 IP l 2 H ll 3 ER l 1 BB
Felix Hernandez: 3 IP l 4 ER l 8 H l 3 K's l 1 BB
Horacio Ramirez (W, 1-0): 5 IP l 7 H l 1 ER l 1 K
J.J Putz (S, 1) 1 IP l 2 H l 1 K l 0 ER

Hitters
Ian Kinsler: 1-4 l RBI l 2K
Jarrod Saltalamaccia: 3-4
Mike Sweeney: 3-4
Marlon Byrd: 3-3 l 2 R l RBI
Jose Vidro: 2-5 l 3 R HR l 3 RBIs' l 2 R
Raul Ibanez 1-5 l 2 R HR l 2 RBIs
Ichiro 0-3 l 2 BB

Player of the Game

Jose Vidro was 2-5 and hit the go ahead 3 R HR in the 8th inning to give the M's a opening day win over AL West Rivals Texas Rangers

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Seattle blows out Texas again, look for sweep
AT.
(0-2) Texas Rangers AT. Seattle Mariners (2-0)

Adrian Beltre went 5 for 5 with 5 ribis

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SEA l 4 l 2 l 0 l 0 l 0 l 5 l 0 l 0 l X l 11 l 18 l 0
W- Jarrod Washburn (1-0) L- Brandon McCarthy (0-1) S- None

Seattle- The M's have blown out the Rangers for the 2nd game in a row and will look to make it three straight and look for a sweep

Adrian Beltre led the way in this blowout. Adrian Beltre went 5 for 5 and driving in 5 of the 11 runs. Jose Vidro also had rbis. He went 2-5, going deep once with 3 rbis Yuinesci Betancourt also went deep and had a rbi. Ibanez also went deep which was the difference maker in the game.

The Rangers were led by young Catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia. He hit a 2R HR. Ramon Vazquez also hit a homerun. Vasquez leads the team in homeruns with two. Hank Blalock was the last one to hit a homerun.

Jarrod Washburn got his 1st win of the season. However he allowed 5 Earned runs on 10 Base hits. The bullpen helped Washburn get that win. Sean Green & White combined for 4 Innings pitched 6 hits allowed & 2 Earned runs & 2 strikeouts

Brandon McCarthy did not have a good day. He went 2 Innings, 6 Runs allowed and 9 base hits. The bullpen was even worst than the Washburn. They allowed 9 base hits & 6 earned runs.

Next games pitching matchup is rook Derek Holland against Veteran Miguel Batista. Seattle looks for the sweep

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Bullpen cannot hold on to Hollands' quality start, M's sweep Rangers after Lopezs' walk off
AT.
(0-3) Texas Rangers AT. Seattle Mariners (3-0)

Lopez hit the walk off HR to give his team a win & a sweep

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SEA l 0 l 0 l 1 l 0 l 0 l 0 l 1 l 1 l 1 l 4 l 11 l 0
W- Sean Green (1-0) L- Joquain Benoit (0-1)

Rangers cannot seal the deal, lose 4-3
Seattle- Derek Holland pitched on heck of a debut. Some analyst said that Holland pitched like he's been here for 5 years. In his debut, he 7 strong innings only allowing 2 Runs 1 in the 3rd inning & the other in the 7th. He also punched out 6 and only walked 1.

His opposition Miguel Batista pitched a pretty good game as well. He pitched 5 innings only allowing 3 runs on 7 base hits & punching out 2. Seattle's bullpen was fantastic which lead to a victory. Bullpen went 4 strong innings only allowing 1 hit.

The Texas Rangers took the lead in the 4th inning after back to back 2B by Kinsler & Young. The Texas Rangers then scored again in the 5th inning which Marlon Byrd scored.

The M's then scored in the 7th to make it a 3-2 game after Suzuki's 2 out 2B to score Betancourt. The Rangers and Benoit got themselves into a bases loaded jam with nobody out. Benoit struck out the next two batters. And then the pitch to the next batter was a wild pitch which scored the tying run.

The Mariners then won it in the bottom of the 9th on Lopezs' walk off HR

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(0-3) Texas Rangers AT. Los Angeles Angels (1-3)

Series Preview

Game 1

Scott Feldman (0-0) 0.00 ERA Vs, Paul Murphy (0-0) 0.00 ERA

Game 2

Bartolo Colon (0-0) 0.00 ERA Vs. John Lackey (0-1) 10.80 ERA

Game 3

Kevin Millwood (0-0) 4.50 ERA Vs. Kelvim Escobar (0-0) 2.84 ERA

Preview: The Texas Rangers & Los Angeles Angels both would like to bounce back from there series before this one. The Rangers were outscored against Seattle 23-15. While the Los Angeles Angels lost there series to the Minnesota Twins 3-1. Texas leads the Majors in Batting Average but they have not shown any run support for there starters. Millwood pitched a very good 2008 debut, while Holland was fantastic in his major league debut, went 7 strong & fanned 6 while only allowing 2 runs & like Millwood he too got a no decision. If the Rangers want to win games they have to score some runs & there bullpen needs to do a better job blowing 2 games against the M's

Keys to success

1. Score some runs

2. Bullpen needs to hold on to games

3, Starting pitching needs to continue