Texas Rangers Pros And Cons

"Lefty" Williams, the starting pitcher in Game 2, was not going to be as obvious as Cicotte. After a shaky start, he pitched well until the fourth inning, when he walked three and gave up as many runs. Rookie pitcher Dickie Kerr, the Game 3 starter for the Sox, was not in on the fix. The original plan was for the conspirators, who disliked Kerr, to lose this game; but by now dissent among the players meant that the plan was in disarray.

Martin Perez wasn’t great tonight, but it wouldn’t have matter who pitched tonight with the way the Rangers bats were going tonight. Perez pitched five innings, giving up seven hits and five earned runs. Perez struggled with his command tonight as well, walking three batters and giving up two long balls. Perez struggled getting ahead of batters all night, with a 66% first pitch

Luckily, his hard work started to pay off, and Dickey moved back up the ranks with the Rangers. He

The sixth inning was when everything changed, as the Boom sent 10 batters to the plate, and scored five runs, giving them a 7-0 lead. Matt Piatt notched two hits and RBIs in the inning, including his leadoff home run over the right center field wall. It was his first on the season. Brandon Sedell (Nova Southeastern), Hoover and Chris Townsend (Central Arkansas) set the table for the top of the lineup when each singled to load the bases. After a pitching change, Daniel Sweet cleared the bases, with a three RBI triple to left center field. Piatt drove his second RBI in the inning in with two outs and two on, with a line drive between the shortstop and third

Kowar worked quickly in the top of the fourth, getting a fly out and a line out before Jackson Lueck singled to left — the Noles’ third two-out hit of the night. What happened next is a pitcher’s

The series of Colorado and LA Dodgers are tied up at a game a piece heading into the final game of this series tonight at Dodger Stadium. Pucking Hockey has a free MLB pick in this match-up and possibly a baseball prediction.

Facing a two-run deficit, Haley Kodama had a two out, RBI double in the sixth to cut the deficit to 7-6. Then, the Wildcats added to their lead with two more runs in its half of the sixth inning for 9-6. In the seventh, Miller hit a two-run home run to make it a one-run game with none out. A fly out, strike out and line out ended the comeback

The Lumberjacks scored one in the seventh thanks to an Anthony Corrado triple and sacrifice fly by John Aguirre, but four runs all scored with two outs in the run-ruled game. With two down, Wilkinson walked, stole second, and scored when Quintanilla reached on an error. He stole second and scored on Crowder’s RBI single. A walk and Zapata single scored the third run, and a fielding error allowed the final run to score in the game and push the lead to

Look for Aybar to swing the bat and provide some power to the Braves lineup that Simmons was not able to do.

​The best chance the Phils got to score off Foltynewicz came in the 7th inning when Tommy Joseph led off with a single and Franco followed with a walk. Michael Saunders then came up and hit a laser line drive right into the glove of Foltynewicz who then turned and doubled up a hung-out-to-dry Joseph at second. Andrew Knapp then grounded out to end the

To be blunt I’m not a huge fan of this lineup, especially considering that the lineup the Rangers had been using was clicking on all cylinders. Josh Hamilton and Shin Soo Choo both get the nights off and I think that has every bit to do with the lefty on left matchup. But I think Banister might be overthinking himself here as both have had great success against Kazmier. Choo is a .333 (4-for-12) career hitter off Kazmier and Josh Hamilton has faired even better than Choo, hitting .368 with two homeruns and six

Twitter was a buzz on Thursday when the Yankees lineup card for their matchup against the Rays had lefty Caleb Smith listed on the bullpen roster for the night. No biggie, right? Except for the fact that Smith is scheduled to be the starter for the Yankees on Saturday. Smith's mysterious move back to the bullpen has many guessing.

Tonight the Rangers will be hoping for a strong performance from Gallardo and if he can turn one in then the Rangers will have a great shot at winning the series. Gallardo has struggled lately though, giving up five earned runs in each of his past three starts. On July 19th, just three short starts ago, Gallardo pitched an uninspiring four innings of ten hit ball, allowing seven earned runs against this Astros team. The Astros have been swinging the bats well as of late as the Rangers saw last night and they’ll certainly be confident heading into tonight. If Gallardo does have one thing going for him, it’s that he usually keeps the ball in the park. In his last ten starts he has only given up three home runs, two of which did come in his last start though

The Rangers have jumped all over the Houston Astros Monday evening, but Adrian Beltre has been on a level of his own this evening. For the third time of his career, Adrian Beltre has hit for the cycle.

Home Run! Now George is up to bat for the Wolverines in the championship game against the Buckeyes. The Buckeyes were winning four to three. I am pitching in the last inning with the game on the line at Renwick Park.