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RANGERS RALLY!

After preparing all day to face Clayton Richard, the Rangers and Ron Washington were very surprised to see him not out on the mound. Instead it was Andrew Russell who got the start.

He pitched very well, going 7.2 IP allowing only 4 hits to that point. Texas would finally get things started in the bottom of the 8th.

Chris Davis hit a line drive double to the right field wall, the Rangers were in business. Matt Thornton couldn't stop things either. As he would eventually allow the Rangers to take a 5-3 lead on a Andruw Jones 2 run single in between Left & Center Field.

The Rangers took 2/3 from one of the hottest teams in the league, on another good note, Ian Kinsler went 1/3 raising his avg to .195 Texas will travel to SafeCo Field to take on the Mariners for a 2 game set. They are set to face King Felix & Erik Bedard. Seattle is 7-18 so far this season.

Player of the Game: P Frank Francisco
Play of the Game: Technical Difficulties

Chicago 3, Texas 5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E CWS (17-7) 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 10 1 TEX (12-12) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 X 5 6 1	May 3, 2009 Rangers Ballpark in Arlington Arlington, TX
WIN: C. Wilson (1-0) LOSS: M. Thornton (1-1) SAVE: F. Francisco (6)

Chicago White Sox Hitters AB R H BI AVG Getz 2B 5 0 1 0 .344 Fields 3B 5 0 0 0 .232 Quentin LF 3 1 1 0 .337 Thome DH 3 1 1 0 .307 Dye RF 4 1 2 0 .211 Konerko 1B 4 0 3 1 .384 Pierzynski C 4 0 1 1 .271 Ramirez SS 4 0 1 1 .289 Anderson CF 3 0 0 0 .230 CWS TOTALS 35 3 10 3 3 BATTING RBI: A. Ramirez (13), P. Konerko (21), A. Pierzynski (15) HBP: C. Quentin GIDP: J. Fields, C. Getz, B. Anderson BASERUNNING FIELDING E: C. Getz (1) Pitchers IP H R ER ERA A. Russell 7.2 4 3 3 5.79 M. Thornton L, 1-1 0.0 2 2 0 0.90 S. Linebrink 0.1 0 0 0 .213 CWS TOTALS 8.0 6 5 3 PITCHING Strikeouts: A. Russell (4), S. Linebrink (1)

Texas Rangers Hitters AB R H BI AVG Murphy LF 4 1 1 1 .339 Young 3B 3 1 0 1 .239 Hamilton CF 3 0 0 0 .284 Jones RF 4 0 1 2 .338 Blalock DH 4 0 1 0 .273 Kinsler 2B 3 0 1 0 .195 Davis 1B 3 0 1 0 .273 Golson, PR 0 1 0 0 .250 Saltalamacchia C 3 0 1 1 .264 Andrus, PR-SS 0 1 0 0 .192 Vizquel SS 2 0 0 0 .000 Byrd PH 0 1 0 0 .230 TEX TOTALS 29 5 6 5 BATTING 2B: C. Davis (3) RBI: M. Young (14), A. Jones 2 (11), J. Saltalamacchia (5), D. Murphy (7) HBP: M. Young GIDP: J. Hamilton BASERUNNING FIELDING E: C. Davis (3) Pitchers IP H R ER ERA M. Harrison 4.0 7 2 2 5.18 S. Feldman 3.0 1 0 0 2.79 C. Wilson W, 1-0 1.0 2 1 1 2.70 F. Francisco SV, 6 1.0 0 0 0 1.04 TEX TOTALS 9.0 10 3 3 PITCHING Strikeouts: M. Harrison (1), S. Feldman (2), C. Wilson (2), F. Francisco (1)