Game 5, W8-4

It took a cold night to heat up the Ranger bats, but the Rangers got them going in an impressive 8-4 win over the Red Sox and Julian Tavarez.

Let me start with the bad. The weather for one. This isn't how baseball should play, but at least we're not in Cleveland. Propbably a good motto for most days. Not happy that we stranded 23 baserunners (same as the BoSox), but at least that means we had a ton on people on base. Hank's lead-off triple bothered me the most.

Kam Loe struggled. I hope he isn't pouting because he's stuck out in the pen; but the only way to earn some starts is performing during the season, and yesterday was a step back.

I missed Josh Lewin. Whoever worked with Grieve was horrible. Josh can be a little grating at times as well, but a 3:28 game needed a little more personality than Entourage talk.

The GOOD. Quite a bit here. Despite falling behind by two, we still were patient hitters and saw a high number of pitches. Tim Mcclelland had a generous strike zone behind the plate, but we still worked 7 walks. Same with Millwood, he found his pitches that worked and gave us six quality innings. Everyone seemed to be hitting the ball to the opposite field except for Lofton (since when did he start swinging like Ichiro?). Benoit looked good again, and Mahay held the game together for us. Sosa, who has been chasing worms with his infield dribblers, finally got a solid shot out of the infield and it landed in the left center bleachers. Impressive considering how the ball wasn't carrying. Lastly, the outfield and DH ended up 6 for 18 with 2 walks and 5 rbi. That's the difference between losing 3-4 and winning 8-4. Can they keep it up? We'll see against Schilling tonight.

Six shooters?