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The only unfortunate thing is they bailed Tillman out. If we lose, it should still go to him, nobody deserves it more.

Yes. Crazy to think that if Brach gives up a fluke (but earned) run this inning and it stays 6-5 the rest of the way, he takes the loss and Tillman gets away with it. Why there is still such a big deal made of W-L in baseball is really beyond me...

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I wasn't too worried really. The numbers they were throwing out on Lewis, the guy is really REALLY bad. Only way he's on the mound is when you're desperate like Texas.

My biggest concern was the long man keeping it close.

I guess by close I mean no further out of hand.

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For starters the ball was hit to left center and Martin started in right center and got a bad jump. But he did get to the ball and laid out in a dive and - from what I saw - had a chance to make the catch that 20 out of 30 CF's would probably make... of course, they also probably would have taken better routes or gotten better jumps as well. It was catchable, but it wasn't like it was an easy catch, but he could have made the difficulty of the catch less so if he were a better fielder anyway.

I think when you lay out sideways on a ball fading away, it's a pretty good play. But hey. They'll show it on replays and he can decide. I thought it was a shame that he got to it. And glad he bounced on his wrist because of full layout.

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I don't know, it didn't look like the OF was going full bore initially, like it fooled him off the bat, making the play look tougher than it needed to be. Just watched it again, and I thing it should've been caught.

We have had situations like that before that burned us for 2 runs (3 if you count Davis's subsequent single). I would feel bad for the Rangers, except that, for one, it wasn't considered an error, and two, errors and misjudgments are part of the game -- sometimes you win because the other team was bad. After seeing us score so many runs of late -- almost all of them earned -- I have to remind myself that not every win has to be because we hit the ball out of the park more times than they did.

I'll take the runs any way we can get them.

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