Blogger Baseball Scorecard: 2010 MLB Baseball Play-offs: ALDS Tampa Bay Rays at Texas Rangers

The Bay Rays have the momentum now I think, or a least they know they can score runs against these Texans, scoring 1 in the 6th, 2 in the 8th and 3 in the 9th in game 3 - the first runs they'd scored since their only run of the series - scored in the 7th inning of game 1! That's Cliff Lee's master work in game 1 - amazing how a great pitching performance can wreak havoc on a teams batting. I guess I've got to give Texas game 2 starter C.J. Wilson some credit also (6.1 IP, 2H, 2 BB, 7K, 0R).

TV Coverage here in Toronto seems to be missing, the darts tournament is over, now they're showing a branding piece about English football.

Rogers Communications Inc. brand for the MLB post season this year is: "Every MLB Post Season Game - exclusively on Rogers Sportsnet!!"

What part of "every" are they not understanding I wonder? No radio either here in Hockey Canada; the only media on this game is ESPN's Play-by-Play and the graphical interface at MLB called Gameday. Radio is also available at mlb.com - if you buy it. Thought now would be a good time to show case the technology they have at MLB by offering it for free during the Division Series, at least. Boy are they ever greedy over there.

Game Schedule - ALDS Texas Rangers at Tampa Bay Rays

Game    Matchup          Day     Date     Time ET
Gm 1    TEX 5 @ TB 1     Wed     Oct. 6   1:30 PM
Gm 2    TEX 6 @ TB 0     Thu     Oct. 7   2:30 PM
Gm 3    TB 6 @ TEX 3     Sat     Oct. 9   5:00 PM
Gm 4*   TB @ TEX         Sun     Oct. 10  1:00 PM
Gm 5*   TEX @ TB         Tue     Oct. 12  5:00 PM

Chart from MLB

ALDS Tampa Bay Rays at Texas Rangers - Game 4
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Arlington, Texas
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
1:07 PM EDT

Starting Pitchers:

Tampa Bay Rays

Wade Davis   G  GS CG SHO IP    H   R  ER HR BB SO  W  L  ERA
2010 stats   29 29 0  0   168.0 165 77 76 24 62 113 12 10 4.07

Texas Rangers

Tommy Hunter G  GS CG SHO IP    H   R  ER HR BB SO  W  L  ERA  
2010 stats   23 22 1  0   128.0 126 55 53 21 33 68  13 4  3.73

ALDS Tampa Bay Rays at Texas Rangers - Game 4
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Arlington, Texas
Sunday, October 10, 2010
1:07 PM EDT

Weather: 82°F | 28°C Clear
Wind: Southerly at 9 mph | 13 kph (home plate out to centre field)

Umpires:
Home - Bill Miller
First Base - Jeff Kellogg
Second Base - Mike Dimuro
Third Base - Tim Welke

Game notes:

9th Inning

J Borbon's 9 pitch, PH at bat in the 9th was a great. Scared me, so I went to Brooks Baseball's PitchF/X portal and got the pitching map thinking this could have been the beginning of the end of the Bay Rays season - but not - three, up three down.

Box score for this game at ESPN.

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Final	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Tampa Bay Rays	0	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	5	11	0
Texas Rangers	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	8	2


Tampa Bay Rays	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		H	AB	BB	R	RBI	LOB	PO	A	E
1. J Jaso C		BH8 x				3UA		Hunter out --->		3UA			CBC X	3UA			BFX	3UA #9 1,2
2. B Zobrist 2B		K				BH9 -				GB6 IFBH <>			CBB SS	Ks			CFS	Ks /
3. C Crawford LF		GB3 DP 3-6-3 /				Ks /				pop FO6			SBB X	3UA /
4. E Longoria 3B				5-3				2BH8 <>	pb	#2 1,2 HR7 2RBI <>					X	2BH9 --
5. C Pena 1B				3BH8 <>				2BH7 RBI <>		Ks /					SX	FO8
6. M Joyce RF				GB4 E4 #5 3,h SB ---				Ks				GB3 IFBH x			BSC FS	Ks
7. D Johnson DH				#6 1,2 GB6 6-3 #6 2,3				Ks				GB4 DP 4-6-3			SCC	K /
8. B Upton CF				Ks /				2BH7 RBI --				BH6 E6th #8 1,2 SB ---				Holland out --->	bunt	GO1 1-3
9. R Brignac SS PH 6th J Bartlett SS						Ks		Ks /				#8 2,3 5-3 /					CBX	BH9 --


/Inning Totals	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Totals
Runs	0	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	5
Hits	1	1	1	3	2	1	0	1	1	11
Errors	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
LOB	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	6

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	p-s	ERA
Wade Davis (rhp)	5.0	7	1	1	3	7	1	94-57	1.80
Randy Choate (lhp)	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6-4	0.00
Grant Belfour (rhp)	1.2	1	0	0	0	0	0	22-15	0.00
Joaquin Benoit (rhp)	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	7-6	0.00
Rafael Soriano (rhp)	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15-10	4.50


Texas Rangers	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		H	AB	BB	R	RBI	LOB	PO	A	E
1. E Andrus SS		BH8 --				2BH9 --				FO9	BBC X	GB6 6-3 /					BCX	GO1 1-3 /
2. M Young 3B		Ks				LO9				GB6 IFBH #8 1,2 --			CSB X	LO3
3. J Hamilton CF	pb	#1 1,2 BB x				4-3 /				BB -			FX	3UA
4. V Guerrero DH		GB5 DP 5-4-3 /						BH9 -		Ks /			X	pop FO3 /
5. N Cruz RF				Ks				Ks				HR9(8) RBI <>		Balfour out --->	SSS	Ks
6. I Kinsler 2B				BB --				FO9		Davis out --->		BH8(9) <>			BX	FO8
7. D Murphy LF				GB4 4-3 #6 1,2				Ks /		Choate out --->		GO 2-3 #6 1,2			SX	FO9 /
8. B Molina C PH 9th J Borbon				Ks /						BH7 ---		LO7					BBB CCF FFX	FO8
9. M Moreland 1B						Ks				LO9	CCB BFB X	2BH9 RBI --					BCX	FO7