Brewers at Rangers; Wednesday, September 10 @ 1:35 p.m.: Freddy Peralta (2.50 ERA, 3.56 FIP) vs. Merrill Kelly (3.16 ERA, 3.77 FIP)

[treego14]

[treego14]

This series has been smelly, but I think we can get to Kelly!

We will put the barrel to Merrill!

Freddy is an all-star ...

with him, no losing streak goes far!

[Brian]

Texas Rangers and the City of Arlington Globe Life Stadium looks huge to me. The outfield walls are eight feet in height from the left field foul pole to the right field foul pole. The batter’s eye structure in centerfield is 120 feet in length and 40 feet high. 

Globe Life Field Dimensions

Left Field Line: 329 feet (Adrian Beltre’s #29)

Left Field Power Alley: 372 feet (Rangers’ first year in Arlington--1972)

Center Field (straightaway): 407 feet (Ivan Rodriguez’ #7)

Deepest Distance of Park (both left and right of straightaway CF): 410 feet (Michael Young’s #10)

Right Field Power Alley: 374 (The Turnaround Gang, 57 to 84 wins--1974)

Right Field Line: 326 feet (Johnny Oates’ #26)

In addition, there is a distance marker in left field at 334 feet from home plate to recognize Nolan Ryan’s #34. 

The distance from home plate straight back to the screen of the Field Suites is 42 feet, which honors Jackie Robinson’s #42. 

 

[Brian]

LOL, Bruce Bochy calls his replacement players for all the hurt TX Ranger superstars, "The Little Rascals."  I'm beginning to think on average, after about 7 years or so in the MLB your already on the baseball production downslope. 

[folly412]

Blue moon tonight.  Contreras not in the lineup.

[BarremlensTSSC]

Not being critical of the lineup choices on a getaway day, but it's hard not to look at Perkins-Jansen-Ortiz and assume that's probably a 1 for 10 day with a few ks and maybe 2 walks if we're lucky.

 

[treego14]

6 minutes ago, BarremlensTSSC said:

Not being critical of the lineup choices on a getaway day, but it's hard not to look at Perkins-Jansen-Ortiz and assume that's probably a 1 for 10 day with a few ks and maybe 2 walks if we're lucky.

 

Pancake Man knows better!

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

17 minutes ago, BarremlensTSSC said:

Not being critical of the lineup choices on a getaway day, but it's hard not to look at Perkins-Jansen-Ortiz and assume that's probably a 1 for 10 day with a few ks and maybe 2 walks if we're lucky.

 

Hoping this proves to be a great cold take in a few hours.

[Jim French Stepstool]

1 hour ago, folly412 said:

Blue moon tonight.  Contreras not in the lineup.

I mentioned the other day how I thought this would be a good day to sit Contreras. I wasn't confident that it would actually happen, though.

Maybe, just maybe Perkins is emerging a litte bit given his last handful of ABs.

 

[shanedog19]

Ortiz needs to be on a short leash. If he can't become more competitive offensively, we should turn to Mona for an extended period of time.

[BarremlensTSSC]

13 minutes ago, Ron Robinsons Beard said:

Hoping this proves to be a great cold take in a few hours.

Same.... and the reverse jinkx is half the reason why I posted it.

 

[Team Canada]

If Brice does this for a whole year he's a legit MVP threat.

[Brian]

They just said lefty's give M. Kelly problems so maybe why the goofy lineup. 

[Team Canada]

You get a HR! You get a HR!

Everybody homers!

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Yelich has scalded the ball since he came back. Law of averages would seem to indicate that the bad luck will turn around.

[shanedog19]

This is a game where we need to keep the pedal to the metal on offense.

[Brian]

I didn't realize Merrill Kelly looks like Chris Elliott.  

[Team Canada]

There goes the scoreless streak.

[torts]

There have been some absolute nukes already in this game 🤣

[torts]

1 minute ago, Team Canada said:

There goes the scoreless streak.

 

Trade him what a bum!

[shanedog19]

Swing at strikes Yelich my goodness.

[adambr2]

Well Yelich certainly didn’t look very good on that one.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

What is going on here? These blow-up innings are really getting tiresome. 

[ReverendBrewmeister]

Well, we got the "Peralta Falter Inning" in the 3rd. Managed to limit the damage to two runs. Plenty of time left in the game.

[Brian]

Texas may be better than we thought.