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Tuesday, April 12, 2005Anaheim Angels at Texas RangersToday's Matchup: John Lackey (0-0, 7.72 ERA) vs. Chris Young (0-0, 6.75 ERA)
Today's pitching matchup is a re-match of last Thursday's game, where Lackey started out perfect through 4 innings, while Young gave up 3 in 4. Lackey then quickly gave up the lead in the 5th and the Angels took the lead back in the bottom of the inning with a Bengie Molina home run. The Rangers tied it in the 9th off of Shields, before the Angels one it on a walk-off Steve Finley single. In other words, expect each team to have over 5 runs (possibly around 10) this game. UPDATE (8:40 CDT): I was watching Scrubs, so I just tuned into the game now. It is the bottom of the 4th and the Angels are up 7-3. Young has already been knocked out of the game and the Rangers' catcher, Barajas has already committed two errors in the game, both leading to runs. If Lackey can make it 3 more innings and give up fewer than three more runs (I think if he gives up two more, he will be gone) then he will have done his job. UPDATE (8:52 CDT): Top of the fifth, Figgins leads off with a double and Erstad knocks him to third with another groundout to 2nd (he did that earlier in the game, too). Looks like the Chronicles' "4-3" count is going up fast. Also, just saw that Rivera came in to bat for Vlad. I don't have any info as to what happened. UPDATE (9:32 CDT): After 6 innings, it is 9-3. Lackey did not quite make it through the 6th like I had hoped, loading the bases with no outs. Donnelly then came in and saved his ass by striking out two and getting the third to foul out to the catcher. FINAL UPDATE (10:51 CDT): The Angels won the game 13-8, but it really was a bigger spread than that. They scored 3 in the top of the 7th to make it 12-3 and put the game out of reach. That score allowed them to leave Donnelly in through the 7th despite him throwing a lot of pitches and let them try to have Yan work through his struggles in the 8th (he didn't before they put Shields in). Shields pitched the last 1.1 innings and picked up the save. |
