Yes break
out the brooms—as the Rangers take the three game series against the Colorado
Rockies at Globe Life Field over the weekend of May 19th through 21st,
and twice in the series scoring double digits—11 runs on a Saturday afternoon
and then 13 more runs on Sunday afternoon as well. TWENTY FOUR RUNS in two
games, that’s says something about this Ranger offense.
Home Runs
by Corey Seager, Josh Jung, and Josh Smith—not to mention extra base hits by a
slew of Rangers to help push runs across the plate—five in the 2nd
inning and another six in the fifth. Tack on a couple of more in the 8th
and that’s your 13 runs in the game!
Andrew
Heaney on the mound for the Rangers gave up ONE run but it was unearned since
it was a Fields Choice and error on the 1st baseman (Nate Lowe) trying
to throw out the lead runner going into second base—however the Rockies did get
a couple of more runs across when they faced reliever Jose Leclerc.
It’s the same
song with the bullpen, you never know which one will show up for a game—the red
hot guys or the ones that will get shell shocked and give up either a big lead
and make it closer than it should, or the absolute worse, give UP the lead all
together and lose it on the tail end of the late innings, where your offense is
not able to break through.
Those are
the frustrating games and the bullpens ineptness. Some blame Bruce Bochy the
manager of the Rangers, for not managing the bullpen properly—or they point fingers
at Chris Young for not getting the right arms, lets face it, the team has lost
for the time being, Jacob deGrom with his injury, catcher Mitch Garver is still
not back yet though he might start a rehab assignment soon, then there is the
60 days—those are the ones that the team might see sometime in July—Glen Otto,
Bret martin, Jake Odorizzi, Spencer Howard, every one of those names are
Pitchers—Jake Jankowski is on 10 days—along with Garver—so again, might see
those guys play in either Round Rock or Frisco for rehab assignments.
For the most
part however, the Rangers win three in a row against the National League
Rockies, and their interleague play continues as they hit the road to take on
the Pittsburgh Pirates for a set then travel to Baltimore for three games then
to Detroit for another three games, back home June 2nd when the
Seattle Mariners come into Arlington to take on the Rangers for a three game
division match up—then the RED BIRDS from St Louis come to town—not that any
one of us still stings from GAME 6 of the 2011 World Series--- ONE OUT away—ONE
STRIKE away from bringing home the hardware only to lose it in extra innings,
to the Cardinals, and then game 7 was more a less an afterthought with the
Cardinals in St. Louis win the whole thing for their 11th WORLD
CHAMPIONSHIP in club history, and the Rangers once again come in second place
for the 2nd year in a row. (2010 lose to San Francisco Giants, led
by, current Rangers Manager Bruce Bochy. (I told him at the beginning of this
season, that I would not hold it against him) But I did mentioned it—so I got
it out of my system!
So we turn
our attention to the road games coming up and see how they fare with the
Pirates, Orioles, and Tigers, before they come back home to face the Mariners.
For now it’s
a good feeling to sweep a team (any team) and take that momentum with you to
the next game(s).
Just a
thought
