Rangers @ Tigers (September 12th-13th)

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Andrew Miller is in to pitch for the Tigers now.

Hank Blalock leads off by grounding out.
DeRosa follows with what should have been a groundout to short but Guillen can't pick up the ball. DeRosa is safe at first on the error by Guillen.

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Matt Stairs follows with the walk. Now runners on 1st and 2nd with 1 out for Ian Kinsler.

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Kinsler flies out for the 2nd out of the inning.
Laird rips the ball to short but Guillen can handle this one and throws out Stairs at 2nd to end the inning.
Rangers lead 8-3 going into the bottom of the 7th.

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Brandon Inge leads off the 7th by striking out swinging. That's the 6th strikeout of the game for Millwood.

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Neifi Perez follows with a pop out to shallow centerfield.
Curtis Granderson draws the walk with a full count.
Runner on 1st with 2 outs with Pudge coming up.

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Pudge rips the ball to rightfield but DeRosa makes the play and the inning is over.

Rangers lead 8-3 after 7 innings.

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Matthews leads off the 8th with a walk.
He now has a single, double, triple, homerun, and a walk in that order.
Gary now has everything except a strikeout in this game.

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Michael Young crushes the delivery from Jason Grilli over the righfield wall for a 2-run homerun. Rangers lead 10-3.

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Teixeira follows up with a fly ball to centerfield for the 1st out.
Carlos Lee mashes the Grilli pitch over the leftfield wall for his 2nd homerun of the season!

Now 11-3 Rangers.

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Blalock grounds out down the thirdbase line for the 2nd out of the inning.
DeRosa pops out to first base to end the inning.

Rangers lead 11-3 going into the bottom of the 8th.

[DirtyKash]

Matthews is freakin' awesome

[Molina00]

Joaquin Benoit takes the mound in relief of Kevin Millwood.

Final line on Millwood: 7 IP - 7 H - 3 R - 3 ER - 2 BB - 6 K

[Molina00]

Benoit walks Craig Monroe to leadoff the inning.
Magglio Ordonez goes down swinging for the first out.
Pinch hitter Kevin Hooper grounds into the force out at secondbase. Now runner on 1st with 2 outs.
Chris Shelton, another pinch hitter, grounds out to thirdbase to end the inning.

Rangers lead 11-3 going into the 9th.

[Molina00]

Jamie Walker in relief for the Tigers now.

Stairs leading off the inning hacking at air.
Kinsler goes down swinging for the 2nd out.
Pinch hitter Miguel Ojeda rips the Walker deliver into leftfield for a single.

Ojeda is now 1 for 1 in his Ranger career.
Runner on 1st with 2 outs.

[Molina00]

Joaquin Arias, making his major league debut, draws the walk with a full count. Now runners on 1st and 2nd with 2 outs.