After being completely offensively stalled for most of the trip to Toronto, it just made Monday’s win versus the division rival Angels a little sweeter.
The Rangers piled all their runs into the fourth inning when they mostly based but in some cases blooped five hits and four runs. The inning started with a Julio Borbon single, but he reached second on an error by the second baseman. The following batter, Elvis Andrus ended up at second on a fielder’s choice play on his own single. That play also put Borbon at third, and he crossed the plate on a sacrifice fly by Michael Young.
After Young, an offense of Ian Kinsler (Josh Hamilton had the day off), Vladimir Guerrero and Nelson Cruz produced back-to-back-to back doubles. Playing against his former team for the first time, Guerrero double just sank into the grass with the stroke of luck that he always finds. The other two landed near the outfield wall.
Darren Oliver also showed his stuff against his former team. The third hurler of the night, Oliver pitcher a perfect seventh and eighth in support of starter and winning pitcher Derek Holland. Holland made his second start since being called up when Matt Harrison went on the disabled list.
After giving up no hits through the fourth, Holland surrender homers to Mike Napoli in the fifth ad Torii Hunter in the sixth.
Note: I started a job but will still try to update this blog as much as possible with my new time constraints.
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