The Texas Rangers clobbered the visiting Oakland Athletics by the score of 14-4 on Wednesday afternoon. With the ten-run victory, the Rangers took the final two games of the series against the A’s. Great way to finish off the 2008 season at home that is for sure!

The Rangers have been dissappointing for most of the season, but on Wednesday they gave their fans something to cheer about. The Rangers hit three home runs including a three-run shot by Hank Blalock, a two-run blast from Nelson Cruz, and then a solo home run from Travis Metcalf.

Blalock finished the game with a team high four rbi’s. He was followed by Michael Young, Josh Hamilton, Cruz and Metcalf who all had two rbi each in the game. German Duran and Michael Bradley finished up the scoring with one rbi each.

On the mound it was Matt Harrison getting the win and improving to 8-3 on the year. Harrison tossed six innings while giving up six hits and two runs. He struck out seven batters while giving up a solo home run. It was a quality start for Harrison and the Rangers scored plenty of runs for him to get the win. Josh Rupe threw two innings and was charged with two runs while Wes Littleton threw the ninth inning to finish up the game.

It was nice to see the Rangers win the final two games at home to give the fans a little something to cheer about. It wasn’t the season they wanted, but hopefully things will improve next time we see the Rangers take the field in Arlington.

Let’s now sit back and see how the team does in Anaheim as they take on the Angels in the final three games of the season this weekend.

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The Texas Rangers tied the game up in the bottom of the ninth inning with a Hank Blalock home run, but then ended up losing to the Oakland Athletics by the score of 4-3. The two teams played 11 innings on Monday night and it just wasnt the Rangers night to pull off a come from behind victory.

Luis Mendoza gave up a rbi single in the 11th inning to Travis Buck and ended up taking the loss for the Rangers. The only other Rangers pitcher to allow any runs was starting pitcher Kevin Millwood who was charged with eight hits and two three runs over seven innings. He didn’t have that bad of game as he struckout six and only walked one. There just wasn’t enough run support for him in the game.

As we mentioned before, Blalock had the game tying solo home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to force extra innings. The other two rbi came off the bats of German Duran and who had a rbi single and Milton Bradley who had a rbi sac fly. The offense needed to step it up just a little bit but they were unable to do that and pick p the pitching staff.

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The Texas Rangers were trying to sweep the Kansas City Royals in a three game series but they lost on Thursday by the score of 6-5.  Frank Francisco gave up two runs in the eighth inning to give the Royals the lead.  Francisco ended up taking the loss and is now

The Rangers got two home runs in the second inning from German Duran (three run shot), and Ian Kinsler ( solo home run).  Besides the four runs in the second inning the only other run for the Rangers came in the eight inning when David Murphy hit a sac fly to score Brandon Boggs.

Rangers starting pitcher Eric Hurley gave up six hits and four runs over six innings of action to get a no decision.  Jamey Wright pitched a scoreless seventh inning before Francisco imploded in the eight inning.

The Rangers willnow take on the New York Mets in an interleage matchup over the weekend.

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The Texas Rangers were absolutely crushed by the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night as the Rangers defeated the Twins 11-4.  The Rangers had 11 hits compared to the Twins 13 hits, but the had more rbi chances and took advantage of them all game long.

Doug Mathis was rocked for eight hits and nine runs in only 2 1/3 innings of action.  Six of those nine runs were earned as Mathis’s era sky rocketed to 10.12.  Mathis is now 1-1 on the season.

Franklyn German pitched the next 3 2/3 innings and did a wonderful job as he did not allow a run to cross the plate.  The Rangers then called on Josh Rupe to throw the final two innings of the game and he gave up three hits and two runs.

Ian Kinsler, Josh Hamilton, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, and German Duran all had one rbi in the game for the Rangers.

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The Texas Rangers gave up four runs in the top of the ninth inning as the Seattle Mariners came back to tie the game and force it into extra innings.  However in the bottom of the tenth inning, Ramon Vazquez hit a walk off solo home run to give the Rangers a 13-12 victory over the Mariners.

Besides Vazquez’s home run, Josh Hamilton and Milton Bradley hit back to back solo home runs in the third inning.  Hamilton led all Rangers hitters with four rbi in the game.  Michael Young finished with two rbi while Frank Catalanotto, Chris Shelton, German Duran, Vasquez, and Bradley all had one rbi in the game.

Doug Mathis pitched the top of the tenth inning to pick up his first win of the season.  C.J. Wilson was the pitcher that gave up the four runs in the to of the ninth inning that allowed the Mariners to tie the game.  Wilson gave up a three run home run to Kenji Johjima that tied the game.

Starting pitcher Vicente Padilla threw five innings of seven hit baseball.  He let six runs cross the plate, with three of them being earned.

The Rangesr are now two games under .500 at 19-21 on the season.  Rangers Blog