Put Your Hands Up, The Rangers Are In Town - A MLB 09 'Chise

[Scott]

Quote: Originally Posted by marino13882

Who is this Kinsler fellow?

Not sure, he's been missing for around the first 30 games

[Scott]

GAME 3 OF 3

Seattle (7-27, L15) vs. Texas (19-15, W3)

STARTING PITCHERS

Carlos Silva (0-6, 7.90 ERA) vs. Matt Harrison (1-2, 5.76 ERA)
May 14th - 1:05
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

[gtm]

Oh my, Seattle is really hurtin'.

[Scott]

Rangers Come Through In 9th

In what expected to be a high scoring affair, it was all but that. Carlos Silva was nasty with his sinker and curve ball all day, inducing a lot of ground ball outs.

Elvis Andrus did come through with a crucial 2-run RBI double to give the Rangers a 2-0. That would be surrendered in the 6th inning on a 2-run HR by Ken Griffey Jr though. It would stay locked in at 2-2 until the Rangers batted in the bottom of the ninth.

Murphy led off with a single to get things started. He would then reach second on a slow tapper to 3rd, Byrd nearly beating it out. Rangers have a runner on second, at bat pinch hitting 1B Chris Davis, who already has 1 walkoff single this year. Line drive just under the diving glove of 1B Russell Branyan, Murphy rounds 3rd and just gets under the tag.

Rangers Win 4th Straight

Player of the Game

Neftali Feliz
Play of the Game

GW RBI Single by Chris Davis

Seattle 2, Texas 3
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E SEA (7-27) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 8 1 TEX (19-15) 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 9 0	1:05 PM May 14, 2009 Rangers Ballpark in Arlington Arlington, TX
WIN: N. Feliz (1-1) LOSS: D. Aardsma (1-3)

Seattle Mariners Hitters AB R H BI AVG Betancourt SS 4 0 1 0 .273 Sweeney 1B 4 1 2 0 .207 Beltre 3B 4 0 1 0 .233 Griffey Jr LF 4 1 1 2 .274 Lopez 2B 4 0 0 0 .257 Gutierrez CF 4 0 0 0 .212 Johjima C 3 0 1 0 .273 Chavez PH 1 0 0 0 .223 Johnson C 0 0 0 0 .250 Cedeno DH 3 0 1 0 .286 Balentien RF 3 0 1 0 .289 SEA TOTALS 34 2 8 2 BATTING 2B: M. Sweeney (7) HR: K. Griffey Jr (3) RBI: K. Griffey Jr 2 (10) GIDP: M. Sweeney BASERUNNING SB: R. Cedeno (1) FIELDING E: Y. Betancourt (12) Pitchers IP H R ER ERA C. Silva 6.2 7 2 0 6.35 M. Lowe 1.1 0 0 0 5.63 D. Aardsma L, 1-3 0.1 1 1 1 5.25 M. Batista 0.0 1 0 0 5.56 SEA TOTALS 8.1 9 3 1 PITCHING Strikeouts: C. Silva (4) Walks: C. Silva (1) WP: C. Silva (1)

Texas Rangers Hitters AB R H BI AVG Kinsler 2B 4 0 1 0 .242 Young 3B 4 0 0 0 .245 Hamilton DH 3 0 1 0 .288 Blalock 1B 4 0 1 0 .252 Murphy LF 4 1 1 0 .367 Byrd CF 4 1 1 0 .271 Teagarden C 3 1 1 0 .286 Davis PH 1 0 1 1 .292 Andrus SS 3 0 1 2 .222 Golson RF 3 0 1 0 .462 TEX TOTALS 33 3 9 3 BATTING 2B: E. Andrus (1) RBI: C. Davis (22), E. Andrus 2 (10) GIDP: D. Murphy BASERUNNING CS: I. Kinsler (3) FIELDING Pitchers IP H R ER ERA M. Harrison 5.1 7 2 2 5.40 N. Feliz W, 1-1 3.2 1 0 0 3.12 TEX TOTALS 9.0 8 2 2 PITCHING Strikeouts: M. Harrison (5), N. Feliz (1)

[Scott]

GAME 1 OF 3

Los Angeles (19-16, L1) vs. Texas (20-15, W4)

STARTING PITCHERS

Kelvim Escobar (2-4, 5.13 ERA) vs. Kevin Millwood (2-3, 4.85 ERA)
May 15th - 7:05
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

[Brett_OS]

This will be an exciting series, time to grab my popcorn.

[Scott]

Quote: Originally Posted by Member_6590

This will be an exciting series, time to grab my popcorn.

Lets hope it lives up to expectations

[Scott]

Hello Win Column

What was thought to be an old fashioned pitchers duel was barely that. Texas opened things off with a Josh Hamilton in the bottom of the 1st, scoring Ian Kinsler, Rangers jump out to an early 2-0 lead.

However, LA would come back with a 2 run HR by Bobby Abreu to even the game at 2-2, that is until the 5th inning. The Angels would add 4 more runs in the 5th as Millwood imploded, giving them a 6-2 lead.

Texas would manage to score one run in the bottom of the 6th to narrow it to 6-3. However, Torri Hunter would answer with a 2-run HR to put it at 8-3. Texas wasn't done yet though. They would tack on 3 runs to bring it to 8-6. Then Hank Blalock stepped up with Hamilton on 1st and hit a blast to Right, tieing the game at 8-8. After a fine defensive play by Ian Kinsler to end the 9th. Kinsler had the chance to start things in the 9th.

Ian led things off with a double, things were looking bad for the Angels. Up stepped Michael Young, but a grounder to left couldn't advance Kinsler to 3rd. Josh Hamilton would come through with a base hit that scored Ian Kinsler to give the Rangers a great 9-8 come from behind win.

Rangers Win 5th Straight In Comeback Fashion

Player of the Game

Josh Hamilton

Play of the Game

GW RBI Single by Hamilton

Defensive Play of the Game

Kinsler robs Napoli

Los Angeles 8, Texas 9
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LAA (19-16) 0 0 2 0 4 0 2 0 0 8 15 2 TEX (20-15) 2 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 1 9 14 0	7:05 PM May 15, 2009 Rangers Ballpark in Arlington Arlington, TX
WIN: E. Guardado (2-1) LOSS: J. Speier (4-2)

Los Angeles Angels Hitters AB R H BI AVG Figgins 3B 4 1 1 1 .307 Abreu DH 4 3 3 4 .397 Guerrero RF 5 0 0 0 .318 Hunter CF 5 1 1 2 .241 Kendrick 2B 5 0 3 1 .205 Rivera LF 5 0 2 0 .276 Napoli C 5 0 2 0 .301 Morales 1B 4 2 2 0 .269 Aybar SS 3 1 1 0 .252 LAA TOTALS 40 8 15 8 BATTING 2B: C. Figgins (10), B. Abreu (9), M. Napoli (6) HR: T. Hunter (8), B. Abreu (10) RBI: C. Figgins (19), H. Kendrick (8), T. Hunter 2 (25), B. Abreu 4 (35) HBP: B. Abreu GIDP: J. Rivera BASERUNNING FIELDING E: C. Figgins (2), E. Aybar (4) Pitchers IP H R ER ERA K. Escobar 6.0 8 4 3 5.05 S. Shields H, 3 0.2 1 2 0 1.50 D. Oliver BS, 1 0.1 1 2 0 4.24 J. Speier L, 4-2 1.0 3 1 1 2.39 J. Arredondo 0.1 1 0 0 1.96 LAA TOTALS 8.1 14 9 4 PITCHING Strikeouts: D. Oliver (1) WP: D. Oliver (1)

Texas Rangers Hitters AB R H BI AVG Kinsler 2B 5 2 2 0 .248 Young 3B 5 1 2 1 .250 Hamilton CF 4 3 3 3 .301 Blalock DH 4 1 2 2 .260 Murphy RF 4 0 1 1 .361 Byrd LF 4 0 1 0 .270 Davis 1B 4 1 0 0 .282 Saltalamacchia C 3 0 1 0 .260 Andrus SS 4 1 2 0 .233 TEX TOTALS 37 9 14 7 BATTING 2B: I. Kinsler (5), M. Young (7), E. Andrus (2) HR: J. Hamilton (8), H. Blalock (4) RBI: M. Young (18), J. Hamilton 3 (18), H. Blalock 2 (16), D. Murphy (9) HBP: J. Hamilton, J. Saltalamacchia GIDP: C. Davis, M. Byrd BASERUNNING FIELDING Pitchers IP H R ER ERA K. Millwood 6.0 10 6 6 5.36 D. Holland 1.2 3 2 2 3.38 E. Guardado W, 1.1 2 0 0 4.00 TEX TOTALS 9.0 15 8 8 PITCHING Strikeouts: K. Millwood (4), D. Holland (1) Walks: K. Millwood (2)

Table created by: PUJOLS4MVP

[Marino]

Good comeback but you shouldn't have let them score so many in the first place.

[Scott]

GAME 2 OF 3

Los Angeles (19-17, L2) vs. Texas (21-15, W5)

STARTING PITCHERS

John Lackey (2-4, 4.04 ERA) vs. Vicente Padilla (4-2, 4.15 ERA)
May 16th - 1:05
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

Notes: Vlad hits Padilla very well, he's a .391 hitter against him, with 3 HR 12 RBIs in just 46 ABs.