Your Texas Rangers

[crocmommy]

Well, after tonight's good outing by A.J., I don't know what to do with the guy. I do know that I am happy about it.

On a side note, I enjoy Chuck Morgan's efforts to curb the wave. Tonight on the big scoreboard (on Star Wars night) was Yoda telling the crowd that:

"The wave is the path to the dark side. Once you start down the wave's dark path, forever it will dominate your destiny."

It didn't work. They still did it.

That's funny. Hope George Trost was there. He hates the wave more than anyone I know.

[crocmommy]

Well, after tonight's good outing by A.J., I don't know what to do with the guy. I do know that I am happy about it.

I try to look at it this way. There is no way a team is ever going to have 5 starters that are all pitching well at the same time. And of course one or two will be better than the other guys. You can't get rid of a guy who doesn't pitch well every time he's up...you just hope that most of the time, he keeps you in the game. So I would think the rangers would have to keep AJ. Perez is a whole different story. I dread him pitching now. Not sure what happened. Have the hitters caught onto him now? Or is he having problems? He was very good for a while...

[Jim Jack]

Holland was good again today. And they won.

[crocmommy]

Holland was good again today. And they won.

It was close up to the last pitch. I enjoy those kind of games once in a while.

[BigTex]

A one run lead is dicey with this bullpen.

[Mark]

Any time you can win 3 of 4 against one of the other division leaders, you are playing great baseball.

[crocmommy]

Another nice win last night. The magic number is down to 23. It's moving fast!

Seattle had a pitcher who could switch his pitching arm from left to right last night. Never heard of that before. So he would switch every other hitter or so. So when Beltre came up to hit, he had his batting helmet on backward. Gotta love it.

[BigTex]

I dozed off in the middle of the game and completely missed Venditte. Didn't know about Beltre's bit until this morning.

Did you know that by rule Vindette has to declare which arm he will use before the batter steps into the box? I didn't know that until this morning either.

[crocmommy]

I dozed off in the middle of the game and completely missed Venditte. Didn't know about Beltre's bit until this morning.

Did you know that by rule Vindette has to declare which arm he will use before the batter steps into the box? I didn't know that until this morning either.

Yeah, I just read that this morning too.

About Beltre, it's good that he can do something to get attention to the team. While I realize this is a football town, the Cowboys are getting way more attention that a losing team deserves. I have watched very little of the preseason games, but can't avoid all the hype on the local TV news and on social media especially about Romo. The Rangers are looking like they will make post season again and are relegated to a few minutes after the Cowboys preseason has been covered.

[Mark]

Very nice win tonight after Hamels cruised for 3 innings and then completely lost it. Odor was tonight's walk-off hero.

[crocmommy]

Very nice win tonight after Hamels cruised for 3 innings and then completely lost it. Odor was tonight's walk-off hero.

That was a long crazy game to listen to. And the Magic Number is now 22.

[BigTex]

Will King Felix send Odor a message?

[Mark]

Will King Felix send Odor a message?

For hitting a walk-off?

[BigTex]

Will King Felix send Odor a message?

For hitting a walk-off?

Lots of discussion today about Odor flipping his bat and taking the slow walk to first. Whether it was the same as what Bautista did. But what we all think about it doesn't matter. It only matters what the Mariners think.

[Mark]

Will King Felix send Odor a message?

For hitting a walk-off?

Lots of discussion today about Odor flipping his bat and taking the slow walk to first. Whether it was the same as what Bautista did. But what we all think about it doesn't matter. It only matters what the Mariners think.

I agree that the Mariners' actions will be driven by their perceptions...

I read on another forum that there was "a lot of chatter about Odor posing and staring down Diaz."

I didn't remember seeing it that way, so I watched it all again on Lunch with the Rangers today. I saw Odor hit the ball, drop the bat, take a few slow steps while watched the flight of the ball, then go into his trot. I didn't see a pose, I didn't see a bat flip, and I didn't see him staring down Diaz. Maybe I'm a homer, but I just didn't see anything wrong last night.

[BigTex]

I agree. I don't think it was Bautista-level but we'll know shortly what the Mariners thought.

[crocmommy]

At least Perez managed to hold an 8 run lead. It got a little scary in the 6th when he loaded up the bases. Now we'll see if the bullpen can hang onto it.

[crocmommy]

At least Perez managed to hold an 8 run lead. It got a little scary in the 6th when he loaded up the bases. Now we'll see if the bullpen can hang onto it.

Great game 14-1. If they could only score that many runs every time Perez pitches.

[BigTex]

Well somebody got plunked, but it wasn't Odor.

Ejection.

[crocmommy]

Well somebody got plunked, but it wasn't Odor.

Ejection.

I missed that. Who got plunked and who got ejected?