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10th Inning:
3 Rangers up and down. 

Bottom of 10
Lead off double.  Maybe Bush was a bad decision.  And now the intentional walk.  1B and 2B, no outs.  Trouble.  And the season.

BJs win. 7-6.  Game over.  Season over.  Bad double play throw from 2B to 1B might have gotten them out of the inning.  It would have been close. 

9th Inning:

Crap, this is great and bad and awesome.  3 up and down for our Rangers.  Here we go.

Bottom of 9
Kela has been nothing short of amazing.  3 BJs up and down.  6-6.  Extra innings. 

8th Inning:
Betltre is pressing.  Ugly 2nd out strikeout.  Can't blame him.  This is may be his last chance.

Bottom of 8
3 up, 3 BJs down.  6-6.  It's getting tense.  Little nervous. 

7th Inning:
3 Rangers up and 3 Rangers down.  Crap.  6-6.

Bottom of 7
3 BJs up and 3 BJs down.  6-6.  OK.


6th Inning:
2 outs for our Rangers in the top of 6.  10 outs left.

1 on, 2 outs for the Rangers.  BJs starter has been pulled.  Let's see what we can do versus their bullpen.

Mitch!!! 2 run double with 2 outs.  Rangers 6-5.  Now it's really a ballgame.

Mitch stranded on 2nd.  Rangers up 6-5.  Wow. A shutdown, 3 up 3 down bottom of an inning is what is needed.

Bottom of 6
Diekman in and out.  BJs on 2nd and 3rd, no outs.  Intentional walk.  Now it's Kela, bases loaded.

Wild pitch, BJs tie it up.  6-6.  BJs on 2nd and 3rd, 2 outs.

Flyout line drive to LF.  Damage done.  New ballgame.  At least 3 innings to see if the Rangers play another game this year.  6-6.  Tie ballgame.

5th Inning:

Suggestion for all you politicos out there.  Put the Presidential debate on 1 screen (computer or TV) and the ballgame on the other.  Mute the ballgame.  The announcers suck anyway.

3 up, 3 down for the Rangers.

And now the BJs at bat.

4th Inning:

2 run homer by Odor.  5-4 BJs.  It's a ballgame again. 

Jeff, good point, why not Martin Perez to start this game?  And is available in the bullpen???

That's it, Mitch stranded on 1st after a 2 out walk, Elvis flew out to LF.  A shutdown inning would be nice.  Who's available in the bullpen???  Everyone, right?

Bottom of 4

Claudio is pitching.  He's been solid down the stretch.

Lead off walk, damn.

Double play to end inning.  Good.  1 run to reset this game would be too much to ask for, right?

3rd Inning:
Elivs.  Yard.  3-2 BJs.

Rangers get 1 back.  3-2 BJs.  Another shutdown inning from Mr. Baseball would be nice.  If not absolutely needed.

And in the bottom of 3, lead off hit, stole 2nd.  No outs.  Is a man on 2nd and no outs bad???

And a ground rule double scores another run.  And Banny is headed to the mound.  4-2 BJs.

Barnette is in pitching for the Rangers.

Single scores the BJs runner on 2nd.  Man on 1st, no outs.  BJs 5-2.  Shit.

2nd Inning:
Maybe Martin Perez should start warming up in the bullpen.

2 quick outs in the top of 2. 

Now it's up to Mitch.  And he struck out.  3 up, 3 down. 

And now the BJs get to bat again, bottom of 2 coming up...

Shutdown inning for the Cobra.

1st Inning:
Rangers up 1 after half an inning.

And now Mr. Baseball (Cobra Lewis spent some time in Japan) gives it right back giving up a 2 run homer in the bottom of 1.  Shit.

And another solo homer.  Damn.  3-1 BJs.  Damage done. 

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Your Rangers are down 0-2 in the series after our 2 aces got shelled.

Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: This has been a continuation of the end of last year's series.

Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: Now Cobra Lewis, Mr. Baseball, is set to start game 3. And hey, they have nothing to lose. Maybe they'll play looser. And better. Playing better would help too.
 
Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes: I wonder how many teams have come back from an 0-2 deficit in a 5 game divisional series. I bet not many.

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Don't call it a comeback. Oh wait. Yeah, do call it a comeback. Again.

Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: Kinda bad to always have to come from behind.

Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: Kinda great that they seem to be able to.

Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes: Home field would be nice.

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5 wins so far in July for your Texas Rangers. Is that bad?

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Rangers (Odor) beat (up) Blue Birds (Bautista)

via GIPHY

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Rangers swept the Astros, then get swept by White Sox, then split the 1st 2 versus Spankees

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Texas' bullpen STRUGGLES(and that's being nice), lose last 2 games of the series, lose series versus Seamen

Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: Yesterday Wilhelmsen gave up 2 homers and 2 extra base hits and did not record an out. That means his current ERA is INFINITY.

Tollseson blew a save opportunity in the 9th today and his ERA is now 45.

Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: Wilhelmsen was visited on the mound yesterday by the new pitching coach Doug Brocail after getting beat up and not recording an out. Then he beaned the next batter and was thrown out. You gotta think that cane from the dugout. Maybe, right? And then Banny was jawing at the Seamen's manager. In which case, awesome! I cannot wait till we face the Seamen again.

Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes: Off to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, California, United States of America, Earth, Milky Way (look it up, that's their official name) who I believe are paying Josh Hamiltn $30 million to sit on our bench.

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Rangers manage only 1 hit and still beat Seamen/King Felix on Opening Day

Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: Cole gave up solo HR's in the first 2 innings-and the Rangers' kryptonite Seager hit one of them.

On top of that the Rangers managed ZERO hits through 4 innings and ONE in the game.

Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: Live by the snow falling on Seager, die by the snow falling for on Seager* - he had 1 of the 2 Seamen errors in the Rangers' 3 run 5th inning.

At least the Rangers seem to still be King Felix's kryptonite. How else can you explain a 3-2 lead for the Rangers and the Rangers with only1 hit at that point.

Tolleson had a 3 up 3 down 9th to close the game.

Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes:
After 1 game the Rangers are on pace to:
- go undefeated
- have Prince get 162 hits and 162 RBI's (Prince had the only Rangers hit and RBI in the game)
- have the rest of the lineup go without a hit the whole year

*credit to Chris Berman for borrowing that from him.

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Opening day for your AL West defending champion Texas Rangers is this Monday

Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: Yu is not back yet and we have an unproven 5th starter.

Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: The season is about to start.

Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes: It's been a quiet, uneventful offseason and spring training. And there's been no drama. Weird right?

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At least the #NBA doesn't have the all star game determine home court in the finals. What league would be dumb enough to do that? #MLB

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Rangers sign Mr. Baseball Colby Lewis to a 1 year deal

Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: He's not exactly a spring chicken.

Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: Lewis will eat up innings.

Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes: Apparently Yu's brother is entangled in some type of gambling mess. So far it appears Yu has nothing to do with it.

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