Rangers 8, Indians 5

Posted on April 8th, 2009 10:28pm by Evan Grant
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Be back with full coverage shortly, but in the meantime, please feel free to entertain yourselves with talk of:

• The unstoppable Nelson Cruz, who had two homers.

• C.J. Wilson’s tightrope act in the eighth inning that harked back to last year’s meltdowns. Wilson avoided a meltdown by striking out the tying run twice.

• Vicente Padilla’s outing. For me, it was “eh.” But I’m going to look at any outing in which he or Kevin Millwood fail to last six innings as a failure.

• Elvis Andrus, the greatest 20-year-old Ranger since, well, maybe ever. Or at least since Ivan Rodriguez.

• The team’s 2-0 start. They can go to 3-0 tomorrow. The last time they did that was 1996. You know, around these parts, anything that compares favorably to 1996 is a good thing.

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7 Comments to “Rangers 8, Indians 5”
  • Greg @ April 8th, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    I have such a man crush on Elvis. I’ll chalk his error up to not being used to throwing from that angle. I bet something like that doesn’t happen again.

    Bullpen was sketchy, way too big of a reminder of last year. Hopefully they’ll get their stuff straightened out.

    But the Rangers are 2-0, time to celebrate!

  • Mike E @ April 8th, 2009 at 10:48 pm

    In fairness to Padilla, the defense didn’t make some of the plays they made behind Millwood with Davis getting pulled off the bag a couple of times. If one of those is made then Padilla’s out of the 6th without giving up the homer. Then maybe he goes out for the 7th stronger. Also I think Wash was a little overeager to see what Jennings would give him out of the pen.

  • The Ghost of John Rheinecker @ April 8th, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    Evan, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this location to post my thoughts in, a unique feature that not many websites offer. I feel like this kind of concern is what makes Evan Grant, Inside Corner, and frankly life itself fantastic.

    Thanks,
    The Ghost of John Rheinecker

    ps: I hope next time you’re driving your car you become the first person in world history to catastrophically rear end a helicopter which is flying at a safe height, creating a mystery that will dazzle millions for generations.

  • Mike S @ April 8th, 2009 at 10:54 pm

    Greg, except for CJ the pen was good! Jennings gives up an unearned run but worked his one inning pretty well. Eddie G was fine and Frankie was great! CJ had issues including a throwing error but I’m glad that Maddux and Wash let him work his way through it.

  • Tom B @ April 8th, 2009 at 10:54 pm

    Rangers lost their concentration but they won the game. In years past they might not have done so. They hung in there and won and hopefully gained a little confidence and a personal lesson or two. All “W’s” look good.
    Wilson will be out tomorrow due to number of pitches and maybe Francisco. We need a good start with many innings from McCarthy. 170 pitches or so to get 27 outs is not doing the bullpen any good but it’s early. 60+ in the last three innings.

  • Mike S @ April 8th, 2009 at 10:57 pm

    I’m w/you, Mike E. The errors did not help Vicente at all. He would have finshed the 6th easily w/o the errors!

  • Jolly @ April 8th, 2009 at 11:18 pm

    1 Error with Vinny and he got the next out…..then next inning he gives up HR……the defense didn’t give up that HR……

    3 errors and cardiac CJ relief and we still win because of great offense but it sure as hell shows us we have holes to repair…..