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| Happy 60th, Wash! |
The Major League Baseball is in full effect as the calendar passes from April to May. Hopefully, the Texas Rangers are getting a nap after flying into Toronto this morning to face the Blue Jays, who seem to always play them tough.
The last time I wrote a cotton-pickin' thing about the Rangers, they were taking two of three from the New York Yankees in pretty convincing order.
Then, they met their match. The Rangers might be the best team in the Majors. I don't think the Tampa Bay Rays are too far behind.
The Rays handed the Rangers their first series loss of the season taking Friday and Sunday's games.
The Rays are really good: Solid middle of the line-up, good pitching, good bullpen and they have one of the best grinding line-ups outside of the Rangers and Yankees. Truly the class of the AL East and, arguably, of the American League.
I can bitch with the best. Listening to Dunham & Miller on The Ticket this morning you'd think that Derek Holland hadn't had a good game all season (honestly, that's the trouble with The Ticket: They think that listeners don't notice when they don't follow a game or team ... it's terribly obvious). Matt Harrison wasn't sharp Friday. The offense has struggled ... against good pitching.
At the game Sunday, fans around me were ready to throw in the towel in the third inning. I guess fans are the big story. For the first time ever, the Rangers have a six-game sellout streak with the Yankees and Rays in town. I don't know if that continues with lesser opponents, but pulling in 50K in late-April sans Yankees or Red Sox is a feat.
Some are quick to point out that Dallas-Fort Worth's becoming a "baseball town." Like Troy Aikman once said, Dallas doesn't love the Cowboys; they love a winner. And fans are largely still very ignorant of the game.
Women next to me couldn't understand why the outfielders couldn't catch the Rays' sharply hit balls to the wall. Most thought Holland had nothing while battling through seven innings and striking out eight.
But no one's quitting. Holland didn't quit. Harrison didn't quit. Mark Lowe and Koji Uehara have been fantastic as of late. Colby Lewis is stellar. The offense will come. Sometimes you lose to good teams and there's no shame in that. There's 30 teams that would trade destinies with the Rangers in a heartbeat. Keepin' things in perspective.
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