And by “another one” I mean the Rangers…. Jason Jennings looked pretty dang good until the 6th inning (or was it the 5th?)….  Regardless, the bats were quiet again, as a matter of fact Kinsler leads off with a hit, and then we don’t get another hit until Broussard goes yard late in the game…. Silva pitched pretty well for the M’s…. Now it’s the Angels, and we never seem to play well in Anaheim, maybe we can change our luck….

In other baseball news, I guess the big story is Kansas City…. Detroit was all but given the AL pennant before the season, and now they are 3 games behind the AL Central leading Royals!!!  The Nationals are 3-0!!!

I can see it now, the World Series in Kauffman Stadium and the brand new Nationals Park…. At least it’s a nice dream huh?

Well, I’m going to go for now, try to find one of the two night games on TV somewhere….  There will be more later!!!

Well thanks to our Savior (Josh Hamilton) the Rangers avoided going to 0-2 in 2008.  Hamilton hit his first Rangers homer to give the Rangers a 5-4 lead heading into the bottom of the ninth inning and C.J. Wilson got his first save of 2008.  Is it possible that those two have the worst combination of hairstyles in baseball?

How about this, BREAK UP THE ROYALS!!!  As of this afternoon, they were undefeated and two games up on the mighty Detroit Tigers!  Brian Bannister lead the charge for Kansas City, as he combined with two other relievers for a three hitter.

Baseball season is back in full swing, can’t wait to see two new pitchers for their respective teams going at it tonight, Jason Jennings of the Rangers and Carlos Silva of the Mariners.  Hopefully the defense shows up tonight, it almost cost us the game again.  We’ll see what happens!!!

More tonight!

Well, the last game of Opening Night 3.0 is officially over now, the Astros fall to San Diego to close out the night.  It was an interesting Opening Day, you get two rain-outs, the Blue Jays and Yankees get postponed as well as the Rockies and Cardinals.  Not to mention the fact that a couple of teams projected to dominate during the regular season fell to inferior teams.  Kansas City beat Detroit, Pittsburgh beat Atlanta in a wild one, Minnesota defeats Torii Hunter and the Angels, and break up the Nationals, they go to 2-0 and they are a half game in front of the Mets…. could they go wire to wire?

This of course is a Rangers blog, so I’ll spend a little more time on the Opening Day loss given to us by the Seattle Mariners.  I believe I mentioned in an earlier post that the Rangers need Millwood to revert back to his Cleveland and Atlanta days for Texas to be in good shape.  Well, he did, the problem was that the bullpen was pathetic.  Millwood gave up two runs, neither of which was earned.  He should have been out of the 6th inning when he gave up the 2 runs, but Michael Young (who hit a 1st inning homer) committed an error and things fell apart from there.  Fukumori came in and was ineffective, and luckily Franklyn German came in and stopped the bleeding.  At the plate, I thought the Rangers did not do a bad job, considering Bedard usually strikes everyone out.  Young gets a jack in the 1st inning, and that was it until David Murphy knocked one in later in the game.  The offense MUST be more productive for things to go right.  0-1.  So much for going undefeated.

The beautiful thing about baseball is that tomorrow you get to put on the cleats and do it again.  Vicente Padilla takes the hill for the Rangers, Felix Hernandez for Seattle.  Should be a good one.

Let’s see, what else was interesting about today…. I haven’t checked all of the stats for every game, but I did get to see bits and pieces of quite a few games.  I saw most of the Kansas City/Detroit game, and I was impressed with Cabrera at the plate, he got his first Tiger homer.  Verlander’s stuff was electric, but the bullpen couldn’t get it done in the end.  I saw some of the Cubs/Brewers game, but it was scoreless when I stopped watching there.  The most important thing I saw was how trim Carlos Zambrano looked.  If he can hold up throughout the year, I see him winning 17-20 games and winning the Cy Young.  ESPN showed bits and pieces of the Washington/Philadelphia and Arizona/Cincinnati games, and the only thing I really saw during that was Chris Young’s homer for the Diamondbacks.  The kid can hit the long ball, but he’s got to improve his average this year.

Well, that just about does it for Opening Day 3.0, 1 down for the Rangers, 161 to go.  161-1 won’t be so bad I guess