Monday 9/4 - Wednesday 9/6 Rangers @ A's

[Providence A's]

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Monday 9/4 1:05 PM PT Robinson Tejeda vs. Barry Zito
Tuesday 9/5 7:05 PM PT Adam Eaton vs. Kirk Saarloos
Wednesday 9/6 12:35 PM PT Vicente Padilla vs. Joe Blanton

Series Notes
-Kotsay and Bradley should be available for this series
-For Street and Harden updates see the random ramblings thread

[Providence A's]

3 walks in the 1st inning hurt Big Z as 2 of them scored...then he gave up an inside the park homer, which I didn't see so I don't know what happened exactly. 3 - 0 Rangers after 2 innings.

[Molina00]

Nelson Cruz hit the ball to leftfield. Jay Payton dove for it but missed the ball and it rolled almost to the wall and Cruz scored.

[Providence A's]

and what was Kotsay doing during all of this? gameday said it was hit to left-center

[Molina00]

It was much more towards leftfield. Kotsay had no chance at getting to it.

[Providence A's]

that makes sense then...stupid gameday...I have the game onmlb.tv, but I had gone to the kitchen to get something to eat when it happened...

4 - 0 Rangers now...let's get some runs already...if we lose today, then so long as we win 1 game, we'll be good depending on what the Angels do...we still have games against the M's left, too

[Providence A's]

4 - 0 Rangers after 5 innings. We've had runners on, but haven't cashed in yet.

[Providence A's]

good job today Zito 7 - 0 Rangers...let's go get 'em tomorrow.

[Molina00]

Tejeda has really tuned it up in 2 very tough spots against Frank Thomas. Nelson Cruz is totally destroying Zito too. An inside-the-park homerun and now a 3-run shot. Nice job of Macha leaving Zito in after he was already well over 100 pitches.

[Providence A's]

A's lose 8 - 1...Angels play later tonight...hopefully, we'll bounce back tomorrow

[Molina00]

If Eaton can carry over from his last start and Padilla continues to pitch well against the A's, the rest of this series should be pretty exciting. I really didn't expect Tejeda to pitch quite this good today.

[Providence A's]

even if you swept, you'd be 7 games out with 21 to go and no more head-to-head matchups...good luck with that

[Fishercat]

Rrargh DISGRUNTLED JAY PAYTON SIGHTING.

[Providence A's]

I didn't see it; the sun was in my eyes.

[A'sDiehard]

I was there and Jay definitely didn't help the cause.

It's ok, just keep winning starting tonight.