Your Texas Rangers!: Official 2009 Thread - Page 34 - Dallas-Mavs.com Forums

Five-ofan · 08-30-2009, 02:01 AM

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Originally Posted by tcat075

So...

Angels and Red Soxs rally from deficits to win. Angels acquire Kazmir, who owns us, and since he got traded, is bound for a revival. Likely will have an ERA under 2.00 the rest of the season. The Rangers get shut down to the tune of 1 run in 7 innings by a no-name pitcher. Then, the Rangers have two homers taken away due to the Metrodome's stupid bag that creates a high fence in right, instead getting a single and a double in the 8th and 9th on baseballs that are out of all other 29 ballparks. They take advantage of Nathan's struggles, walking twice to load the bases...except they don't, because ball 4 to Davis is called a strike despite being a good inch and a half out of the strike, ending the game.

I hate baseball right now.

according to pitchfx it was a good 6 and a half inches outside.

mavspwnage · 08-30-2009, 04:17 PM

Millwood continues to have games blown for him. Just another gut wrenching loss. Bases loaded and no outs and we can't score. Boston won and the Angels are leading. This is like a slow painful death. We need to maul the Jays, bad.

ocelot_ark · 08-31-2009, 12:13 AM

CJ Wilson is awesome.

alby · 08-31-2009, 12:40 PM

The upcoming schedule looks encouraging, don't F it up Rangers.

Five-ofan · 08-31-2009, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by mavspwnage

Millwood continues to have games blown for him. Just another gut wrenching loss. Bases loaded and no outs and we can't score. Boston won and the Angels are leading. This is like a slow painful death. We need to maul the Jays, bad.

millwoods been awful for a month.

Flacolaco · 08-31-2009, 07:23 PM

Shortest baseball game ever

jthig32 · 08-31-2009, 07:24 PM

I'm going to keep reminding myself that they're playing with house money at this point.

jthig32 · 08-31-2009, 08:07 PM

House money house money house money.

*sigh*

tcat075 · 08-31-2009, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ocelot_ark

CJ Wilson is awesome.

Do I sense sarcasm?

mavspwnage · 08-31-2009, 08:55 PM

11-0 to start the bottom of the 5th...11-7 now after a Cruz HR. Could this really happen???

tcat075 · 08-31-2009, 08:59 PM

Down 11 in the 5th. Ugh.

I've come to determine this 2009 Rangers team is just not good in close game situations. Of course they win some, but one run/two run/three run games are this team's weakness. Considering the team's youth, I guess its not too surprising.

Here's the close games from this month:

8/3 - Loss to Oakland, CJ blows the save
8/5 - Loss to Oakland, offense ties the game in the 6th, pitching gives up the lead in the bottom of the inning.
8/8 - Loss vs LAA, Millwood and Eddie give up homers to give the Angels the lead
8/14 - The Frankie Meltdown
8/19 - Lose 6-5, giving up 4 in the 6th
8/21-22 - First 2 games in the Tampa series, by a total of 3 runs. Including Grilli giving up the game winner.
8/28 - First game vs Minnesota...tough call on the Davis strikeout but still couldn't quite win it
8/30 - Last night. Loaded the bases in the 9th, no ones. How many runs did we score again?

I know you can easily go find about the same number of close games we won, but that's exactly my point. Good teams win close games. Not 50% of the time, instead more like 75-80%. We don't do that, at least this August we haven't. And if this is how the team performs in close games...win half, lose half...they ain't ever going to win nothing.

tcat075 · 08-31-2009, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by mavspwnage

11-0 to start the bottom of the 5th...11-7 now after a Cruz HR. Could this really happen???

Holy crap are you kidding?

I just wrote a 10 minute post about how this team has no resiliency and how they had no shot of making the playoffs...

DirkFTW · 08-31-2009, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by tcat075

Holy crap are you kidding?

I just wrote a 10 minute post about how this team has no resiliency and how they had no shot of making the playoffs...

Sounds like you've stumbled onto Flaco's secret plan for sports team success!

mavspwnage · 08-31-2009, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by tcat075

Holy crap are you kidding?

I just wrote a 10 minute post about how this team has no resiliency and how they had no shot of making the playoffs...

No joke. lol

play-by-play of the Rangers' 5th inning:

David Murphy single
Taylor Teagarden single
Chris Davis single...Murphy scores (11-1)
Elvis Andrus FC; Teagarden to 3rd
Ian Kinsler triple...Teagarden, Andrus score (11-3)
Michael Young sac fly...Kinsler scores (11-4)
Josh Hamilton infield single (line drive off pitcher lol)
Marlon Byrd single
Nelson Cruz HR...Hamilton, Bryd score (11-7)
David Murphy strikeout

mavspwnage · 08-31-2009, 09:11 PM

Kinsler RBI, 11-8!

mavspwnage · 08-31-2009, 09:19 PM

11-9!

mavspwnage · 08-31-2009, 09:24 PM

Byrd nearllly hit that one out. He JUST missed making it 12-11 Texas.

chumdawg · 08-31-2009, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by tcat075

Good teams win close games. Not 50% of the time, instead more like 75-80%.

I'd be very surprised if that were true.

Flacolaco · 08-31-2009, 09:34 PM

Well...give them an A for effort so far on offense. But Holland...that was just too much in the first.

mavspwnage · 08-31-2009, 09:44 PM

oh my fucking god!!!!! Davis!! ARGH!!!!!! a foot away! fuck!!!!!! 11-10 though...

Five-ofan · 08-31-2009, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by chumdawg

I'd be very surprised if that were true.

its not. Its just like in basketball, good teams blow people out, close games are mostly luck though how good a teams bullpen is does factor in to there record in close games. Then again a bullpen is largely based on luck too.

jthig32 · 08-31-2009, 10:13 PM

Wow...how utterly demoralizing this is.

Uggg.

mavspwnage · 08-31-2009, 10:16 PM

Grilli with the total buzzkill.

mavspwnage · 08-31-2009, 10:32 PM

18-10?!?!?! are you fucking kidding me?!?!?!?!?!?! wowwwwwwwwwwww

Flacolaco · 08-31-2009, 10:56 PM

MLB rule 102.7B

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Any team that allows 18 runs in the last 40 games is ineligible for the post-season.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. They just absolutely, positively don't deserve it. Because they're weak.

DirkFTW · 08-31-2009, 11:19 PM

=(

tcat075 · 09-01-2009, 06:46 AM

worst loss of the year.

good-bye playoffs.

tcat075 · 09-01-2009, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by chumdawg

I'd be very surprised if that were true.

well, in my little fantasy world it's true

However, it always seems like the Yankees, the Red Sox and the angels win a majority of their close games. I guess part of it is they have good late inning relief pitching. As we've seen, the Rangers have struggled greatly w/ that this past month. But other times, our offense cannot score late. Any chance LAA, NYY or Boston doesn't score at least 1 if they loaded the bases, no outs, even against Nathan?

GermanDunk · 09-01-2009, 07:23 AM

What was the problem here ? To strong batters or did the Texan pitchers fail ?

Murphy3 · 09-01-2009, 09:47 AM

If that Davis shot would have been a couple of feet deeper, Grilli never enters the game.. strop never enters the game..

Baseball truly is a game of inches.

Holland has reverted back to throwing alot of pitches right down the middle again.. That has been the case the past three starts even though one of the starts was a quality start.

ocelot_ark · 09-01-2009, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Murphy3

Holland has reverted back to throwing alot of pitches right down the middle again.. That has been the case the past three starts even though one of the starts was a quality start.

Agreed.

mavspwnage · 09-01-2009, 10:12 PM

nice, two 5-2 wins to sweep the DH.

Flacolaco · 09-01-2009, 10:43 PM

It was nice to watch baseball today that didn't make me want to jab an ice pick into my sack.

mavspwnage · 09-01-2009, 11:38 PM

Mariners beat the Angels!! SWEET

Gained 1.5 games on the Angels in one day.

Flacolaco · 09-02-2009, 12:25 AM

sh!t.

Michael Young is likely hurt hurt.

alby · 09-02-2009, 01:26 AM

The feliz stint in the 7th and 8th inning of game 1 was utterly redirkulous.

Five-ofan · 09-02-2009, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by alby

The feliz stint in the 7th and 8th inning of game 1 was utterly redirkulous.

pretty much all of feliz's stints have been ridiculous. hes pretty much the best reliever in baseball. Hes been worth 1.1 war in 19.2 innings which is effing ridiculous. For reference thats the 26th highest total in baseball for a reliever and everyone above him has WAY more ip.

jthig32 · 09-02-2009, 01:06 PM

What Feliz is doing right now is going largely unnoticed by the media and casual Ranger fan. It's freaking ridiculous what he's done so far.

Flacolaco · 09-02-2009, 01:10 PM

Is there some kind of drug he can take that will enable him to pitch 3 innings every single day?

DirkFTW · 09-02-2009, 02:13 PM

Vitamin B-12?