Series Thread: Rangers hope to revive offense at home vs A's 8/15-8/17

[WastinSomeTime]

tonight's "baseball" game brought to you by "umpire" Joe West.

That guy is total garbage.

 

[darrylgann]

A most unlikely win! Oh sweat Beltran

 

[romeo212000]

You know this win has to piss off Seattle and Houston.

 

[Bmurph]

tonight's "baseball" game brought to you by "umpire" Joe West.

Seriously fuck that guy in the neck, he's such dogshit

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Walk off HBP. DT you left to soon.

I was ready to leave but for some reason I kept watching because I just thought we could do something against Axehead but wasn't so sure after what Maz did at the plate.

 

[PhantomWarrior]

Lol what a W. I'll take it. Thanks Axe and alphabet man.

Beltran better stay healthy.

Kela gets the win. How about that.

 

[WastinSomeTime]

You know this win has to piss off Seattle and Houston.

Ain't it good.

 

[WilltheThrill]

I will say this- Bob Melvin just made a big managerial mistake, one that Wash used to make with regularity.

If you are going to pull a pitcher and then intentionally walk the next batter, you have the CURRENT pitcher issue the intentional walk and THEN bring in the reliever. By bringing in the reliever to immediately issue an intentional walk, you run the risk of changing his release point and messing with his control. And that's exactly what happened there with Scrabble. His first and only pitches to a batter were four soft tosses wide. The next pitch ended up where his previous 4 went.

 

[romeo212000]

Was watching MLB network. Wow, Mike trout's mom is kind of a trashy bitch.

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Glad their BP was worse than ours tonight

To me Kela was the only one who did not perform out of the pen even though I was not impressed with Jeffress. I knew when Oakland had a guy on 2nd against Kela that a grounder would find a hole and tie it up. Dyson deserved better there.

 

[RevSader]

I will say this- Bob Melvin just made a big managerial mistake, one that Wash used to make with regularity.

If you are going to pull a pitcher and then intentionally walk the next batter, you have the CURRENT pitcher issue the intentional walk and THEN bring in the reliever. By bringing in the reliever to immediately issue an intentional walk, you run the risk of changing his release point and messing with his control. And that's exactly what happened there with Scrabble. His first and only pitches to a batter were four soft tosses wide. The next pitch ended up where his previous 4 went.

I agree...never get your new pitcher in the mode of not throwing hard.

 

[WastinSomeTime]

I will say this- Bob Melvin just made a big managerial mistake, one that Wash used to make with regularity.

If you are going to pull a pitcher and then intentionally walk the next batter, you have the CURRENT pitcher issue the intentional walk and THEN bring in the reliever. By bringing in the reliever to immediately issue an intentional walk, you run the risk of changing his release point and messing with his control. And that's exactly what happened there with Scrabble. His first and only pitches to a batter were four soft tosses wide. The next pitch ended up where his previous 4 went.

You are exactly right. That is managing 101.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

You know this win has to piss off Seattle and Houston.

I had started to type "what I would give to have seen the Mariner faces when they saw the final score."

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Good job Claudio. You have surprised me.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Good job Claudio. You have surprised me.

Kept them in the game.

 

[RevSader]

Was watching MLB network. Wow, Mike trout's mom is kind of a trashy bitch.

He's from Jersey...sooo

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Pujols just hit a 3 run HR to tie it up.

 

[PhantomWarrior]

I'm all for switching Robbie for Nicholas.

Gives us a LH bat. But call ups just around the corner.

 

[PhantomWarrior]

I think we just Oakland'd Oakland.

Yes we did and that is sweet indeed.

 

[saddles]

This ending reminded me of this.
Rangers walk off on Francoeur's hit-by-pitch