Why won't Cle lose? Rangers still 1 GB in the Wild Card race.
Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: Yu pitched and again the run support is weak. Rangers win back to back for the first time in September I think. Is that good? The freakin' Indians won't lose. Rangers still 1 GB in Wild Card race.
Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: The Rangers have started a winning streak? Beltre went yard, could he please get hot for these last few games?
Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes: Josh Hamilton may very well help determine whether the Rangers make the play-in game again this year with the Rangers ending the season with 4 at home against he Halos.
Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: Answer: none. 6 hits is all they managed. This is the American League so the pitchers cannot help score runs.
Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: Again, the pitching is not the problem, the staff gave up only 5 hits to KC, it was just too bad that the last hit was a walk off grand slam in the bottom of 10.
Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes: 1.5 games back in the Wild Card race with 7 games left, all at home.
Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: 1 run. How many ballgames is your team going to win putting up only 1 run? Answer: not many and not this one. Feliz walked in the winning run after Frasor loaded the bases in the bottom of 8 and lose 2-1 to KC.
Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: Of course the pitching staff did only allow 2 runs. That should be enough to win a ballgame.
Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes: Rangers dropped out of top two in the Wild Card race with the loss.
Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: I've been bad about posting but I have been watching. And this will be awfully familiar and awful if at the end of this thing they end up in a one game playoff and lose. Again. For the second straight year. Or worse, the Rangers don't even make the one game play-in game. That. Would. Suck.
Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: It's that simple. But, the Rangers bats still go quiet every so often (maybe too often) and then when a pitcher gives up 2-4 runs they get a loss.
Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: The Rangers don't seem to win as much as they should when Yu's on the mound. Of course Holland has had some wasted great starts this season too. I'm just saying, way more often than not this season it's been the lack of offense and not the pitching that has been to blame for losses. In fact the with all the injuries to the staff the pitching has been great.
Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: The Rangers' 8 game winning streak came to an end with the loss to the Brewers tonight. The Rangers have won 13 out of 14 games and still will be either 1 game up or tied with the A's in the division (A's are losing to the Astros 5-1 in the bottom of 7th right now). Why won't the A's just go on a losing streak?
Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: The Rangers won 8 in a row and 13 out of 14 games! Not too shabby since it looked like the A's might be poised to run away with this thing.
Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes: Why do the Rangers have so much trouble with simple things like run downs and base running?
The Rangers are tied in the division with the A's.
Read more...Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: Yu gave up 2 first inning homers. Very uncharacteristic for him since he came back from his stint on the DL (he had a sub 1 ERA since coming off the DL). Oh well, he's human after all.
Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: The Rangers had 6 stolen bases. And the Rangers had a mini offensive explosion producing 4 runs in the top 9, fueled in large part by their running.
Oh yeah, and with the win, and A's losing earlier versus the Reds, the Rangers trail by only 1 game in the division.
Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes: It's amazing what great base running and committing no errors in the field will do for you. Just ask the Halos, by virtue of an error in the top of 9 they gave the Rangers an extra out. And as usually happens when you give a MLB team an extra out, the Rangers made them pay for it.
Glass Half Empty / Afternoon Cloud: Of course if you heard the national broadcast team of Joe Buck and Tim McCarver announce game 2 of the 3 game series against the A's on Saturday you would have thought the A's were up in the division by 10 games AND that the A's had won the night before.
Oh yeah, and as fully expected, Nellie was suspended by MLB for the rest of the regular season.
Kins continues to amaze on the base pads, again inexplicably he got caught flat footed and was picked off 2nd base, wasting his lead off double.
Glass Half Full / Silver Lining: Despite Buck and McCarver falling over themselves to sing the praises of the A's, the Rangers did in fact take 2 out 3 from the A's in Oakland.
And the Rangers took the first game of the series against the Halos Monday night.
Thoughts / Observations / Sidenotes: After the win versus the Halos, and with the A's having the night off, the Rangers trail the A's in the division by 2 games. And the A's play 2 against a Reds team that's not too shabby.
I keep on going back to the following: if you would have told me that the pitching would have been as beat up and injured as it has been (for example see Grimm and Tepesch getting multiple starts) I would have thought the Rangers would have been out of the race. Especially with as mediocre as the offense has been.
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