Tune in Wednesday at 7:00 PM ET as the Texas Rangers take on the New York Yankees. Scheduled starters are Derek Holland (7-7, 4.72 ERA) for Texas and Andy Pettitte (10-6, 4.25 ERA) for New York. Drew Fairservice from
Ghostrunner on First will be liveblogging for your enjoymetn.
Yankees Rangers doing battle, up next!
The great young Derek Holland takes on the very old Andy Pettitte
How about some lineups? First the visiting Rangers.
I. Kinsler 2b
M. Young 3b
J. Hamilton cf
N. Cruz rf
I. Rodriguez dh
C. Davis 1b
T. Teagarden c
D. Murphy lf
E. Andrus ss
Thoughts? Nelson Cruz is en fuego. Taylor Teagarden played a secondary role in the Rangers Catching Constonant Appreciation Society in 2009, but with starting catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia out with injury, his playing time is due to increase
Ivan Rodriquez hits 5th and DH's, which makes me laugh just a little
Now your New York Yankees, if you're from New York or live on the Death Star
D. Jeter ss
N. Swisher rf
M. Teixeira 1b
A. Rodriguez 3b
H. Matsui dh
J. Posada c
R. Cano 2b
J. Hairston Jr. lf
M. Cabrera cf
Swisher hits second after being asked to bunt in the dumbest possible situation last night. Seriously, what a braindead call.
www.replacementlevel.com good post on the madness last night
Couple pregame housekeeping items: comments. Keep'em coming and keep'em relevant. Funny, topical, or die.
A Hairston is a credible Patterson
works for SNL
It worked for SNL. Sort of. Living under penalty of death will only make you work hard enough to live
Josh Hamilton! Perserverence! Relapses!
Ian Kinsler leads off the game. He leads off the season well but usually fades in the second half, like right now.
Mizzou? Tigers or some other such cat?
Pettitte gets ahead of Kinsler with some nice offspeed stuff before striking him out on a cutter inside.
Kinsler is slummmpping, not a good time for such actions.
Michael Young steps in, having a solid season.
He bounces a shot to A Rod at third that east up the big hot cornerman.
Rodriquez collects and throws but Young is safe. Ruled an error and understandibly so.
You say room service bounce, I say charity hop. We're all right
Josh Hamilton jumps out 2-0 against Pettitte, though his demons are behind 0-1
Josh Hamilton lines a hot grounder past Teixeira at first base. Young moves to second, two on for Nelson Cruz with one out.
Nelson Cruz finished second in the home run derby but leads the far more interesting Golden Sledgehammer race on Hit Tracker Online.
hittrackeronline.comThe smell of missed revenue and the sight of overestimated value.
Cruz walks quickly, bases loaded!
Pudge will face Pettitte, playing tonight because of good career numbers against the old lefty
I totally spaced on that, Texas has both their catchers in the lineup already. In the event of an injury, pitcher hitting!
Pudge rolls the first pitch to A Rod at third. He makes no mistake and turns a nice around the horn double play. No blood, chance missed. Going to the bottom half we're scoreless.
I don't know PoD, I would assume so. Though Lyle Overbay only has a dozen and he's on the list
