The Good
In a losing effort, an offense with basically no regulars still piled up 14 hits. Victor Diaz puts together a 2 for 3 afternoon with three runs scored, two runs batted in, and his second homerun of the spring.
Jason Botts, playing the role of DH today, added an RBI double in the second inning.
Steven Murphy, who was on loan from minor league camp, also added three runs batted in with two of them coming via the longball in the ninth inning.
The Bad
(See below)
The Ugly
The Ugly awards for this afternoon go to the entire Ranger pitching staff. Robinson Tejeda started the game and allowed four of the first five Giants to reach base. In his two innings of work, he surrendered two runs on three hits while walking three batters.
Following him, Francisco Cruceta, Josh Rupe, Rick Bauer, and Ron Mahay combined to allow a grand total of 14 hits and 11 runs. Rupe had the roughest performance of the afternoon by far after he allowed four runs on seven hits in 2 2/3.
Notable
Jamey Wright will get the ball first Sunday afternoon in Surprise against the Angels.TEXAS (9) AT SAN FRANCISCO (13)
TEXAS AB R H BI SAN FRANCISCO AB R H BI
M Kata ss 3 0 1 0 J Ellison rf 3 2 1 0
R Vazquez ss 2 0 0 0 D Ortmeier rf 0 0 0 1
J Hairston Jr 2b 2 2 1 0 O Vizquel ss 4 1 2 1
J Botts dh 2 1 1 1 I Ochoa pr-ss 1 0 0 0
J Arias ph-dh 3 1 1 0 B Bonds dh 2 1 1 3
M Byrd lf 2 0 0 0 N Schierholtz ph- 2 0 1 1
S Murphy lf 3 1 2 3 R Durham 2b 4 0 1 1
V Diaz rf 4 3 2 2 S McClain 3b 1 0 0 0
D Relaford 3b 2 0 0 0 R Aurilia 1b 3 1 2 1
D Meyer 3b 3 1 2 0 C Santos pr-1b 1 0 0 0
F Guzman cf 2 0 1 0 P Feliz 3b 4 0 1 0
T Donovan cf 3 0 0 1 W Bergolla 2b 1 0 0 0
G Laird c 1 0 0 1 B Molina c 4 1 2 2
C Stewart c 2 0 2 1 E Velez pr 0 1 0 0
J Sandberg 1b 4 0 1 0 G Rodriguez c 1 1 1 0
R Tejeda p 0 0 0 0 T Linden cf 4 2 3 3
F Cruceta p 0 0 0 0 F Lewis lf 3 3 2 0
J Rupe p 0 0 0 0 B Zito p 0 0 0 0
R Bauer p 0 0 0 0 K Correia p 0 0 0 0
R Mahay p 0 0 0 0 J Sanchez p 0 0 0 0
J Taschner p 0 0 0 0
TOTALS 38 9 14 9 TOTALS 38 13 17 13
TEXAS 013 001 112 -- 9
SAN FRANCISCO 202 202 32x -- 13
DP--TEXAS 1. LOB--TEXAS 7, SAN FRANCISCO 8. 2B--P
Feliz, O Vizquel, J Hairston Jr, M Kata, V Diaz, J
Botts, C Stewart. 3B--R Durham, T Linden, J
Hairston Jr. HR--B Bonds 1 (2) (off J Rupe), B
Molina 1 (1) (off F Cruceta), T Linden 1 (1) (off
R Mahay), V Diaz 1 (2) (off B Zito), S Murphy 1
(1) (off J Taschner). SB--F Lewis 2 (2), R Aurilia
1 (1). SF--B Bonds, D Ortmeier, G Laird.
IP H R ER BB SO HR
TEXAS
SAN FRANCISCO
SO--TEX: M Kata 2, J Sandberg, V Diaz, F Guzman.
SFO: P Feliz 2, B Bonds, J Ellison, F Lewis.
BB--TEX: J Hairston Jr 2, V Diaz. SFO: F Lewis 2,
R Aurilia, T Linden, J Ellison. T--3:11.
A--11,995.