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

[Scott]

Recap: LA jumped out to an early lead and was actually leading in the 5th before Texas could even get on the board. Josh Hamilton had an answer in the bottom of the 5th, he hit his 11th HR to the upper deck in RF, which tied the game at 2. Andruw Jones would answer with his own 2 run shot in the bottom of the 6th which gave them the lead 4-2, which the would hold onto. Francisco recorded his 18th save of the season and newly called up Mike Hinckley would come on to get his 1st victory of the year.
Player of the Game: OF Andruw Jones (1-2, R, GW HR, 2 RBIs)

Los Angeles 2, Texas 4
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LAD (38-23) 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 12 0 TEX (37-23) 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 X 4 7 0	7:00 PM June 12, 2009 Rangers Ballpark in Arlington Arlington, TX
WIN: M. Hinckley (1-0) LOSS: H. Kuroda (8-1) SAVE: F. Francisco (18)

Los Angeles Dodgers Hitters AB R H BI AVG Furcal SS 5 0 1 0 .288 Hudson 2B 5 0 1 0 .278 Ramirez* LF 4 0 3 1 .323 Ethier RF 5 0 1 0 .241 Loney 1B 4 1 1 0 .257 Kemp CF 4 0 2 0 .225 Martin C 4 0 2 1 .275 Mientkiewicz DH 3 0 0 0 .163 Pierre PH 0 0 0 0 .321 Blake 3B 3 1 1 0 .268 Loretta PH 1 0 0 0 .050 LAD TOTALS 38 2 12 2 BATTING 2B: R. Martin 2 (15), J. Loney (13) RBI: M. Ramirez (53), R. Martin (39) GIDP: J. Loney BASERUNNING SB: R. Furcal (13), M. Kemp (10) FIELDING Pitchers IP H R ER ERA H. Kuroda L, 8-1 5.1 6 4 4 2.51 C. Wade 1.2 0 0 0 3.15 H. Kuo 1.0 1 0 0 1.95 LAD TOTALS 8.0 7 4 4 PITCHING Strikeouts: H. Kuroda (2)

Texas Rangers Hitters AB R H BI AVG Kinsler 2B 4 0 0 0 .260 Young 3B 3 1 1 0 .302 Hamilton DH 4 1 1 2 .296 Blalock 1B 4 0 1 0 .330 Murphy RF 2 1 0 0 .311 Byrd LF 3 0 1 0 .323 Jones CF 2 1 1 2 .331 Saltalamacchia C 3 0 1 0 .311 Vizquel SS 3 0 1 0 .190 TEX TOTALS 28 4 7 4 BATTING 2B: H. Blalock (16) HR: J. Hamilton (11), A. Jones (5) RBI: J. Hamilton 2 (34), A. Jones 2 (27) HBP: A. Jones, D. Murphy GIDP: H. Blalock BASERUNNING FIELDING Pitchers IP H R ER ERA O. Hernandez 5.0 8 2 2 1.93 M. Hinckley W, 1-0 1.2 2 0 0 0.00 E. Guardado H, 7 1.0 1 0 0 3.60 C. Wilson H, 13 0.1 0 0 0 2.05 F. Francisco SV, 18 1.0 1 0 0 0.45 TEX TOTALS 9.0 12 2 2 PITCHING Strikeouts: O. Hernandez (2), M. Hinckley (1), E. Guardado (1), F. Francisco (2) WP: E. Guardado (2), M. Hinckley (1)

Table created by: PUJOLS4MVP

Minor League Roundup:

The Redhawks (AAA) lost to the New Orleans Zephyrs 0-4. The Redhawks managed only 3 hits in the loss. The RoughRiders (AA) lost to the San Antonio Missions 1-10.

Strong Performers:
AAA - P Josh Rupe - 3.0 IP, 3 hits, 0 ER, 3 Ks - 0.00 ERA
AA - DH Steven Murphy - 1-3, 2B, RBI

[Scott]

GAME 2 OF 3

Game #62 of 162 (38.2%)

Dodgers (38-24) vs. Rangers (38-23)

Clayton Kershaw (3-3, 3.03 ERA) vs. Vicente Padilla (6-4, 3.86 ERA)
June 13th, 2009
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington

Minor League Games:

Redhawks (30-32) vs. Zephrys (34-28)
Jason Jennings (2-3, 3.43 ERA) vs. Daniel Barone (1-5, 5.20 ERA)

RoughRiders (25-34) vs. Missions (22-37)
Michael Main (3-7, 3.73 ERA) vs. Ernesto Frieri (3-3, 4.11 ERA)

[onlybygrace]

Nice man...you and I are basically at the same point in our seasons. Good job.

...but you're having a much better season than I am.

[avrbas]

Good luck in Game 2 vs Dodgers. Kershaw was fun to hit against, I was finally not early on fastballs thanks to his 97 mph heat.