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Perez had his normal outing in hickory.
5 innings 4 hits, 2 runs, none earned, 2 BB and 4 K’s.

The same manager that would bench a player as he makes the allstar team.

I am tired of seeing Omar every time we turn around! He just played Wednesday!

I dont mind the omar start, he will get his games and this is a logical spot for him but cruz would be sitting his 4th game in a row if not for an injury.

Nothing about the jammed finger until Cruz makes all star team. It would be impossible to sit Jones or Byrd.

Borbon so far is 2-2 with a walk and 3 SB.

Davis adds a sac fly and another RBI, smoak grounds out.

Assuming he keeps hitting, I predict that Davis will be back no later than 8/1/09. [Earlier if they manage to trade Hank.]

We always new that Davis could hit Triple AAA Pitching.

Memaw, after last year he showed he can hit MLB pitching also.

@scooper: i hope your right..pulling for that guy, the team could use CD from last year

evan, your liking the song was not gay. your taking the trouble to post the video was.

Not really. Cruz started hot. A lot of people would have heard his name then. And they see his HR totals.

Not gay, not old… just an example of really, really poor taste.

@raoul: what is it that you so dislike about emoticons?

@Rangers Fan – wouldn’t that lineup include Vizquel at 2b?

Their inherent gayness

haha uhh no. That would not include him at 2nd. Kinsler makes plays Omar just can’t make anymore and he has kept errors to a minimum.

He doesn’t have the speed, the range or the arm Kinsler has at this point. I like that he’s here as a mentor but that’s the extent.

@Steve the Dog: Wrong on the dinner pool. Clam chowder and a salad with blue cheese crumbles and a little bit of smoked salmon. I’m actually trying to eat a little better. Not much, but a little.

Maybe I’ll fare better in the home run puget sound

ugh sick…he Tom puts it best. He gets so many cheap hits.

Nice start.

@Steve the Dog: I HATE Alfredo Sauce. Want something red or green (pesto) on pasta. Not cream.

Just wanted to let you know Yankees are up 3-0 on angels in first.

OH..haha. Thanks part-timer. lol.

Why do we need to look at shots of a train every 5 seconds?

Davis also just drew an 8-pitch walk. Things have gone awry for OKC though…11-5

Do I dare say that CD would have had that?

MARINERS JUST SCORED BECAUSE THE FOUL POP WAS NOT CAUGHT

I am with you scooper

If this game gets close to the record, I’m deducting 10 just for people thinking the same thing at the same time.

Smoak draws a walk.

We are going to have to really get on it to get the record.

Nice shot… Blalock is upping his value every day!

OK, Hank’s even for the day.

@evan: yes, I thought Nellie should have cut that ball off. He took a really bad angle (as almost everyone has already said).

Good for Hank. Now, lets watch the rest of our lineup go down in order, seeing an average of 2 pitches per at bat.

No worries, Hank has another homer up his sleeve to keep the game close, right?

@ Evan
What was the outcome of Marlon’s phone call?

Problem is that they have 8 guys who are as good as nippert. Cruz can be a piece, but you’re still losing one of Smoak/Holland/Feliz/Perez – if not 2.

@scooper: see the 2nd sentence of my 9:36

I would let smoak go but thinking about it, can we trade smoak, he has to be in the system a year before he can be traded, I think he signed on aug 16th.

Smoak and Holland are untouchable for me. I read somewhere they would also want to include Andrus and to that I say, H NO! It has also has been reported you would have to take on Wells salary as well. We will not do that.

If Toronto is looking to dump more salary along with Halladay, then I would think it would be a no-go for the Rangers. It doesn’t look like we are in any financial position to take on salary.

I think you could do Cruz/Hunter/Smoak and then a couple 2nd tier guys.

Unless TOR subsidizes his contract to a great extent, I don’t think I’d do Andrus for Halladay 1 for 1.

hunter + cruz + a minor prospect. yep, that should do it for an ace.

Scooper, if they are dumping salary they have to accept a lessor package of talent.
If they think they can add an 11 Mil player and still get 5 top prospects they need to put down the pipe.

@ Evan

Thanks for the update, i hate allegations

The good news is with Cruz getting caught stealing, Salty gets to start over with an 0-0 count! (I’d use a smiley to indicate my sarcasm, but apparently they’re inherently gay)

also – if you are a DISH Network subscriber, don’t live in a Ranger market, and voted in the last chance voting, you should check your email – because you get a free preview of MLB.tv from the 11th through 21st. I believe there’s potentially 4 Ranger games there.

Of course, there’s an Extra Innings preview on most cable providers and directv at the same time. But us DiSH losers don’t get it, and can’t buy it.

The Braves traded Frenchy for Church.

Forget about talent, in ATL it’s PR Gold. Acquired another Church and got rid of a Frog? The AJC may do a story on them now.

I’m calling a Hamilton homer

Good to see from Kins…a single and a walk. What’s the latest on this Kinsler possibly replacing Pedroia thing?

YOUNG!

Minor league trivia.
What ranger player is batting 236 but has a OBP of 1.536?

@obagain: I understand that. I’m also not quite sure how you and I got into this conversation. It actually sounds like our thinking is pretty similar.

@obagain: Moreland

Prediction:

Hanks Homies will make a return to the ballpark after the break

@RangersFan: I don’t think so. Moreland’s average is higher than that.
@obagain: Whittleman?

Scooper, we tend to do that a lot, not sure why.

@obagain: can we call a truce?

I’m gonna say Pudge

you are confusing OBP with slugging %.

it’s okay, kids do it all the time

I thought it was Clark

Not to be a contrarian, but wouldn’t it have been pretty difficult for the guys to have had an AB with runners in scoring position in Mike Witt’s perfect game?

I wonder if the rangers are thinking about moving perez up, I like the idea but I hate that it would be to bakersfield.

has anybody noticed that all 9 of feldmans outs have come on ground balls tonight?

Dude! I just saw Jay Buhner!

@ernie…yes I think that’s typically what he gets, particularly weakly hit ones.

A perfect game is 27 up, 27 down. A no-hitter survives an error, but not a perfect game. Doubting myself, I looked up the boxscore, no Es for the Angels in that game.

@obagain: move Perez up and see how he reacts. I think we’ve seen with Holland that it is not a bad idea for our pitchers to have some adversity in the minors.

scooper, I agree, he had proven he can get hitters out in A ball, give him a challange.

@Evan

Give him and good ole John Blake an attaboy for me

what the heck

HAHAHAHA, terrible play… Byrd should have had that one.

brutal play by byrd. why did he stop

@Evan
how do you get your hands on these random nuggets like the RISP thing from last night? You didn’t sell your soul for them or anything, did you?

Byrd has to call off the other fielder unless he is sure he cant get to it.

@All: Strike the note about the no at-bats with runners in scoring position. Lamar does make an excellent point. Mike Witt’s season-ending perfect game in 1984 would have meant no runners in scoring position because nobody reached base. Sometimes even the search engines we use have gaffes.

@RangersFan: Standing rule – infielder goes out until the outfielder calls them off. The outfielder does not STOP, expecting the infielder to catch it.

Yanks up 4-1 in the 4th.

@scooper- I know, but I’m pointing out that Andrus always catches those balls (ones you think would be the left-fielders). Regardless, one of them should be calling the other off.

Scooper, that is correct the infielder is blind to the incoming outfielder.
Outfielder should never let an infielder make a tough catch when they can make a resonable easy one.

Andrus has more range. Still, it is a more difficult play for the infielder and the outfielder should take it if they can get to it. No way should the outfielder stop and expect the infielder to make the play.

Tom just made the call, i concur

oh well

I just don’t know about bringing Davis back that quickly. If he hits well for 3 weeks at AAA are they really going to believe he’s fixed? Then what happens if they bring him back and he goes right back to hitting .200 with 2 Ks per game?

All I know is that it’s a good time for him and Blalock to get hot.

The former makes the latter more expendable and the latter makes the latter more valued.

@Scooper: I’m not exactly glad the mis-hap happened; I just enjoy a good fielding goof-up every now and then. It’s unfortunate that Nelson Cruz usually accounts for almost all of them though.

I say let Davis stay a bit longer in AAA because Hank is having way better at bats than Davis has the whole season. He works the count and has been hitting the ball to all parts of the field.

Is everyone comfortable with AJ being the full-time DH for now? To me. he seems to be a simple streaky hitter. He’s either on fire or ice cold. I don’t necessarily he should just automatically be given a spot everyday because he got hot for a few games.

Personally, as long as he stays hot I’m fine with Andruw staying in the line-up. If he goes into a slump, get him outta there!

@ALL: After looking again at STATS Pass, the greatest research tool I’ve ever seen (it’s a very expensive pay service), what we’ve discovered is that the service is for some reason not factoring in no-hitters as games in which there were no plate appearances with RISP. It’s very strange because this tool is fabulous and lets you set very specific parameters. You guys figured out the computer was wrong. Way to go!

@last of romo- thought the same thing on the Cruz steal. Was the mi cocina bar eating dinner with mrs. jack daddy and explaining why you might “prefer” to run with 2 strikes and 2 outs and not on a 2-0 count. I like wash. I hope that was a case where cruz went on his own.

Also called the MY homerun (even the opp field part). My first call of the year.

I never got my homer pool free-stuff either! Oooo, calling fraudulence here! (kidding around, I less-than-three Evan)

As for C Davis, he just needs to learn to lay off the waist high curve-ball that breaks in the dirt. Watch him, he always whiffs at it.

@evan- saw some chatter on a Perez promotion. I’ve been thinking about this recently. Have wondered if he might get the Feliz treatment (straight to AA from low A). I know they want to limit his innings, but they also wanted to limit Feliz’s last year too and that didn’t stop them from moving Neftali up to AA.

What do you think?

@RAT: Please re-send your info. I can verify this is not a Ponzi scheme. Many have received their prizes, but some have fallen through cracks. This is good to remind me.

@Rat – Davis will alwasy strike out a bunch and will always be vulnerable to breaking pitches down (most guys are) and he was last year when his year was good.

The problem with Davis this year more than anything, was an ability to consistently catch up to fastballs. particularly up and in. One of the sites (either BBTiA or LSB) had something up that showed his contact rate on FBs and it was the lowest in the league by far, if i recall.

@Jack Daddy: Difference on Martin Perez is he’s 18 and won’t turn 19 until next season. Feliz was 20 when he was promoted to Frisco. I really don’t think the Rangers are going to push an 18-year-old to Double-A. Even if he moves next year, I mean, that would be pretty much speed-of-light progress.

Gay or not Gay time, part II:

Saw The Proposal tonight with my wife. G or NG?

Ok, but how about now:

Liked it better than my wife.

Does it help at all that we saw the 6:15, just so we could get to the bar to watch the start of the Rangers?

Evening all. Broke down and sore from my return to Softball World in Euless. I don’t remember softball hurting so much.

@ Evan (4/15) 9:34: Ian Kinsler about to get his second shot at completing the cycle. He singled last time. He has five consecutive hits dating to last night. … Yep, that’s a cycle. He becomes the fourth player since Gary Matthews Jr. in September, 2006. First one to name the other three in the comments section will get something free. I love giving out freebies.

…. I never got nothin!

Good evening, all. Just got back from the Frisco game. The Riders won 14-3.

On CD: it’s also nice that he went down there with a good attitude, is working hard, is willing to play 3rd, and is having success.

@Jack Daddy: Gay but you get the “at the bar now” exemption…so your good.

@steve: married is irrelevant.

@obagain- good to know…I think it’s definitely a good thing he can be a DH, 1b and 3b next year. If Omar were to be here again you would be set for your infield off the bench.

Best way to make room on the 40 this winter is to put more youngsters on the 25.

@steve the dog – already working that angle. waiting for the wife to get the baby sitter out of the house!! might have to miss a couple of innings of the game. Who i am kidding – maybe an AB. Or two, if she’s lucky!

@Evan – can we get a ruling from fancy stats machine on the longest surname batter/pitcher matchup? I’m pretty sure that GIDP is top 3

Dylan, were the moreland hits good hits or just seeing eye type hits, if you remember.

kirkman is one of the other Frisco starters. who i am forgetting as the 5th? is ballard back down there?

@Last: You send it along, too. Jimminy Christmas, it is a Ponzi scheme. I’ve become Bernie Madoff.

@obagain Ok… I’m not gonna swear to this (I was at the game on a second date with this chick that I sort’ve dig, so there was a lot of second date getting to know you stuff going on that is awesome from a date perspective but not all that conducive to a ton of baseball watching) but I think that Moreland hit a double up the left field line that was as solid as they come. The whole team was hitting tonight (except for Marcus Lemon, as I recall).

@TD – Dude… turns out I knew a bartender out that tonight. Went for the hard liquor instead.

pitch count for Feldman?

@Last: Given our stats record today, I can’t give you anything official, but I’m going to say it would be hard to beat that one.

I know! It’s not like it really does matter but still…it’s just like no talking about a no hitter…

89 pitches thru 6 innings.

Great bunt kins.

That is the Ian Kinsler we need to see more!!

LOVIN the bunt by KINS…GREAT GAME for him.

COME ON JOSH…it’s TIME!

@alan in SA: Think Feldman is at 85.

@Dylan: Two things, you are possibly being a gentleman, but if you are on here and not still in date mode, well, I’m not sure just how good things went. … But, then again, I’m not the relationship doctor. I haven’t had a second date since Bush left office. The first Bush.

5-2 Yanks in the bottom of the 5th.

5-2 Yanks

@Evan – I’d like to say it’s me being a gentleman but, frankly, it’s 100 degrees and humid out there. Not exactly my preferred bodily state when attempting to, to extend the metaphor, steal second.

@scooper… Neither was I. I’ve been on some TERRIBLE second dates! This was, most definitely a good one.

@Evan – Is it ok that this thread is turning into the Dylan’s Date Post Game Thread?

@Dylan: just ask beer guy – we talk about his dates too. the only reason we don’t talk about Evan’s is because he says he never has any.

@dylan/scooper: Oh Sure, the SECOND date at a ball game…. see if she’ll go on the 20th. By then, she’s got her hooks in you!

I think my wife would have agreed to the sewage treatment plant tour with me for our second date if I wanted. Of course, I’m about as handsome and charming as they come (and I lied and said I was rich!)

@last: you sound awfully jaded! I mean, she did marry you!

i mentioned this last week, but we’ve seen both ends of the uniform spectrum the last few weeks:

Great – SF home whites and LA road greys
Horrid – AZ (with D Backs on the front), the ridiculous padres, the Angels on wednesday (red letter/numbers on top of a red shirt) and now these stupid M tops with the TEAL (Teel?) accents.

ross in spokane tonight.
5 innings, 2 hits, no runs, 2 BB and 5 K’s.
His GO to FO was 8-1.
He may get a promotion also.
39 k’s to 6 BB and keeps the ball on the ground.

well crap…5-5 in LA

SEE! If Josh and Tom would shut up about getting out of this inning.

Ryans dad, no I have to pick and choose games with my shoulder.
I play all over, from waxahachie to plano to white settlement.

@ All

Please say hello to my wife, I am trying to convert her to a baseball fan….I think the interaction of this blog may help

her name is Delilah the Dog

@ryansdad: and they never will, either!

I played a couple of years ago down in Waxahachie. Very impressed with the facilities down there.

@evan

I don’t think I like those kinds of parties…

@EVAN: I was hoping to keep Scooter in there…

Were one of those two hits a couple of innings ago?

After the double Ichiro just laced past Young, I would have to say I would have stuck with Feldman… you know what they say about hindsight

@steve the dog: I don’t know alot about women, but I know having many strangers refer to her as a dog is not good for creating a welcoming environment.

@Evan: Instead of asterisks, DMag needs word substitution. On sandbox.com years, YEARS, ago, a certain Balmer Oriole was “Mike hot dogerson.” Loved it.

Not last night..I meant last time Holland was out there.

It seems like Holland is starting to show just a little emotion out there. Is that new?

NICE job Holland!

Nasty stuff from Holland the past two outings he’s had out of the pen. He’s really progressing.

I’m also still waiting on an explanation of why we have to fight through another Nippert start instead of Holland.

Who gets the call in the 8th, CJ or Holland?

Rangers Fan, I’m convinced we are seeing another Nippert start so we can be entertained on The Ticket by the Sterminator saying “Nip” “Nip”

RF, what if nippert only gives you 3 innings again? I like nippert in the pen, not impressed with his starts.

Ichiro already had a hit off of Scooter tonight, so I’m OK with it. Test the kid – he was feeling good after his last appearance, give him a shot at it. Obviously, this is after the fact, so I already know that the inning came out OK>

that was some cheese by Holland. i think people forget that we have a slow gun in Arlington and that he’s still sitting at 94 this year, touching 96-97, like last year.

I hate holland in pen, but you have to like him as a weapon against lefties late in games.

Yay! I just got home to find that I won the homerun pool. I think that the appropriate phrase here would be “even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.” And the Rangers are winning, too! Sweet!

Does Holland come back out? I’d let him.

3 years later we still get the implosion every time we come to seattle, why?

Congrats MATT.

Now gay or not gay? Matt saying “YAY!”.

5-5 yankees/angels, CRAP!

@ALL: Forgot about the asterisks. Let’s call it a Meeting of the Minds (sorry fellow Parrotheads). No more ****tail talk. Cracks me up every time. Guess we won’t be able to do any live blogs on badminton because of all the references to the shuttle****. And no rooster impressions, you know because of ****le-doodle-do. And don’t even think about ****ing your head at me.

I agree with Holland starting rather than Nippert starting.

Oh well
The wife got 3 hello’s
said “you are stupid….call me when the game is over” and walked out of the room

Holy crap! That was a smack.

A little late, but I called that shot…5 innings late to be exact

THANK YOU NELLIE! You better keep him in there Wash.

Does Nellie maybe have the “hot hand” now?

@TD: I would hope you could. If there is a problem, let me know. I don’t know if this is only an internet special, but if you have an issue getting tix at the special price for our special section on our special night, let me know and we will try to get something taken care of for you. Because we are all about the service. … And Holy Homers, Nelson Cruz. Where has that been?

Evan, can you ask wash why cruz sat the last 3 games and wasnt goint to play in this one except for an injury?

@Dylan: What about CJ?

@ Dylan

that is exactly what I was thinking with Holland, a great way to boost his confidence

I looked over at my 12yo step son and said I’m putting in the call for Nellie here. And it’s going to be a bomb. I WAS RIGHT and I have a witness. He got up off the floor and blew me up. HAHA

I called 414 ft on the Nellie shot too, there is hope that I may one day win some free stuff

OK…come on holland.

@Evan – Is there a deadline for the tickets for the game on the 21st that the price will be available? I don’t get paid till next Friday.

Thanks @idiotbox

What’s the distance on Nellie’s homer?

CRUZ HR: 418 to 420

11:29: And now Jason Jennings comes in to face Franklin Gutierrez with two men on and no outs. Jennings has allowed eight of 16 inherited runners to score. Never easy.

I am not feeling good about this.

@Dylan: No deadlines on ticket sales I don’t believe. And besides, I never let something as pesky as funds stop me from buying something I want. On second thought. …

I’ve got the SF game up now. It seeems like they have a potential no hitter every night there.

Nice work so far HIPPY JENNINGS.

also, 7-5 angels

Wow was Nellie’s homer ever huge.

@AJ: Yes, upon your suggestion, he DOES look like Witten – ALOT in his mlb.com pic.

And jennings again lets all the inherited runners score.
I dont understand, he has no faith in mathis in a 6-2 game but he will bring in jennings who almost always allows runners to score.

No-no bid just went live for free on mlb.com

Amazingly he doesnt give up many of his runs but he lets inherited runners always score.

oh my people, oh my…

Holy crap! Deep drive to center field that was caught at the wall for the second out in the no no.

NO – NO!

That was AWESOME!

I know…that was cool!

Sanchez got his no-no!

Not to be all melancholy, but to be that good at anything for even one night… wow.

C’mon, Frankie! Finish them off!

@ Evan
Before we get out of here tonight, I just wanted to say I hope you enjoy your biscuits and honey in the morning. Make sure they don’t get any honey on that shiny dome when they are drizzling from up above.

I predict a holland no-no at some point in his career.

7-6 now in the YANKS/ANGELS game…

@rangersfan: I agree. He is economical with his pitches, so he should have quite a few complete games. And, with his stuff (assuming he continues to progress with his secondary pitches) he should be able to do it.

What a pitch to Itchy-Ro

I lied..its matsui

I can’t believe I’m pulling for the Yankees.

FF, how do you walk him? Be agressive.

@obagain: Maybe you can’t, but they need bats bad. They are going to have to give up something really good. They already have Lincecum and Cain. I don’t know.

Angels winning….sorry.

Dang Angels coming back and now lead the Yanks 7-6.

The Enemy of my Enemy’s Enemy is Eric bieniemy

Scooper. imagine in 2 year we have holland, feliz and beavan all reaching their ceiling and kiker throws a no hitter, do you trade him?

Thank you, Frankie!

Boy… Frankie sure did use his offspeed stuff more than I’m used to.

Great game!

Jonathan Sanchez moves to a dominating 3-8 with that no-hitter…LOL.

Yea Jennings did so bad. Are we still winning? Am I correct in saying that Jennings used to be a starter and was forced into this role. He isn’t a strikeout pitcher. I think he did good. I think he has done well all year with all things considered.

P, he came in with 2 on and both scored, if he holds the win is much easier that it was.

only 425 comments tonight, we are slacking.

414* ob.

Angels 10-6 now over the yanks. Blurgh.

@RangersFan: Uribe had moved from 2nd to 3rd an inning earlier.