Game #22: A's 6, Rangers 4
April 26, 2006 | A's @ Texas
What a nailbiter! But the A's fought back. Kudos to Joe Kennedy despite giving me the jitters when he loaded the bases in the 10th. Let's go A's!
Hmm... I went back to review the scoring plays and the A's had three HRs in this game courtesy of Frank Thomas, Bobby "Weird Injuries" Crosby, and Dan Johnson (okay, we won't send you to Sacramento).
Meantime the Rangers had one HR, courtesy of Mench, and it was a grand slam. In the end, though, the A's win.
Makes me wonder if this is the vision that Billy Beane has been trying to make a reality -- a team that wins games by outhomering the opponent.
(Game experience: Monitored 10th inning on Gameday and Gamecast. (Gameday is better.) )
A's record: 10-12 | streak: W-1 | well-A-meter: 3
What a nailbiter! But the A's fought back. Kudos to Joe Kennedy despite giving me the jitters when he loaded the bases in the 10th. Let's go A's!
Hmm... I went back to review the scoring plays and the A's had three HRs in this game courtesy of Frank Thomas, Bobby "Weird Injuries" Crosby, and Dan Johnson (okay, we won't send you to Sacramento).Meantime the Rangers had one HR, courtesy of Mench, and it was a grand slam. In the end, though, the A's win.
Makes me wonder if this is the vision that Billy Beane has been trying to make a reality -- a team that wins games by outhomering the opponent.
(Game experience: Monitored 10th inning on Gameday and Gamecast. (Gameday is better.) )
A's record: 10-12 | streak: W-1 | well-A-meter: 3
posted by blank book at 2:31 PM
4 Comments:
Can't believe we took 2 out of 3 from the Rangers considering the state of the team! Have we won a game yet this year by a comfortable margin (which I consider 4 or more runs)? Sure doesn't feel like it!
Now that you mention it, there's only one game (vs. the Tigers) where we won by a margin bigger than 3 (not even 4, but 3!) runs.
Since we ragged on Johnson, his bat's been alive (last 2 days). Maybe we need to start on Ellis now! :)
Wait a minute. I was wrong! The one game where the margin was bigger than 3 runs... the Tigers won that, not us!
No. 19, you're absolutely right. We have won 0 games by a comfortable margin this season.
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