Better late than never

Endy rock: Doing those small things

Around the seventh inning, I was fuming. The night after absolutely clobbering the Baltmore Orioles, the Texas Rangers could barely tough some starting pitcher named "Mitch."

You should never get beat buy a guy named "Mitch." Ever. Even if it's Williams.

The Rangers offense came around. Scored four runs in the seventh inning, the Rangers bullpen held up and won the thing 4-2 to at least get the series win and a shot at sweep tomorrow.

By the numbers:

0
Walks by Matt Harrison, who went six innings allowing the two runs. He's not allowed a zero-walk game all season.

2
Home runs allowed by Harrison. His first multi-home run game of the year. And, yes, it's July.

1
Scoreless inning each for Tommy Hunter, Mark Lowe and Neftali Feliz. Will we look upon this trio differently in September? Do the Rangers have their bullpen situation figured out?

1
Extra-base hit by the Rangers, an Adrian Beltre double. The day after hitting 10 extra-base hits against the same Baltimore squad.

6
Base hits in two games from Michael Young, making him 42 hits short of 2,000.

7
Hits from Nelson Cruz in last three games. Nine RBI in last four games.

5
Runners left on base by Mark Reynolds. He went 0-4 with two strikeouts tonight.