Rangers Lose to Spankees Again, 3-0
Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: I know hindsight is 20/20 but, Harrison was in a pitching duel with Kuroda. Harry was at 106 pitches, had only given up 5 hits through 6.1 IP, he still looked like he had good stuff and still had a shutout going. And the Spankees had 2 switch hitters due up in Texiera and Swisher so there was no match up (lefty vs. lefty for example) that you were going for. But, Wash pulled Harry and Ogando gave up 2 homers for 3 runs. Ballgame.
Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: Harry looked good (and in my opinion at the time should have been left in to finish his pitching duel with Kuroda).
Tanner Scheppers looked great in relief even with the ump not giving him pitches that were well within the strike zone.
Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes: To go on even more, with the way the game was going for the Rangers at the plate why doesn't Wash leave Harrison in so long as he keeps his own shutout going?
But, bottom line is that the Rangers aren't going to win too many ballgames when they can only manage 2 hits (the first one in the 7th inning).
1 comment(s) regarding this post:
Poster - I agree. You don't pull a pitcher, pitching a scoreless game until there are AT LEAST 2 men on base and/or 115+ pitches, unless as you suggest, a righty-righty, lefty-lefty matchup can be had. Made no sense.
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