The Texas Rangers will look to win the first leg of the I-45 Classic with a victory at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington (pictured above) on Saturday evening. - verndogs/Flickr.com
Rangers Gameday: 5/17 Vs. HOU
Saturday, May 17th Game Preview
Houston Astros (24-19) vs. Texas Rangers (21-22)
Roy Oswalt (4-3, 5.05 ERA) vs. Vicente Padilla (5-2, 3.23 ERA)
6:05 PM CST in Arlington, Texas (Rangers Ballpark in Arlington)
TV: FSN-HD | Radio: KRLD 1080 AM, XM 179
| Astros |
Rangers |
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| Pos. | Player | Pos. | Player |
| RF | Hunter Pence |
2B | Ian Kinsler |
| 2B | Kazuo Matsui |
SS | Michael Young |
| SS | Miguel Tejada |
RF | Josh Hamilton |
| 1B | Lance Berkman |
DH | Milton Bradley |
| DH | Carlos Lee | LF | David Murphy |
| LF | Darin Erstad |
C | Gerald Laird |
| 3B | Ty Wigginton | 1B | Frank Catalanotto |
| CF | Michael Bourn |
CF | Marlon Byrd |
| C | Brad Ausmus | 3B | Ramon Vazquez |
Notes: Richard Durrett of the Dallas Morning News reports that Josh Hamilton asked manager Ron Washington to start tonight’s game in right field, as he is still feeling the lingering aftereffects of last night’s first-inning dive on a Kazuo Matsui line drive to center field.






8 Responses to “Rangers Gameday: 5/17 Vs. HOU”
May 17th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Quite a game tonight…6-2 Rangers, and looking for a series win…
May 17th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Michael Young grounds out to end the eighth inning…Eddie Guardado coming on to finish this one off…
May 17th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
One out in the ninth on an easy foul pop to Cat…
May 17th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Meanwhile, from the bizarro world department, Barajas is 2-for-4 with 5 RBI tonight…
May 17th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Rangers an out away from the .500 mark…
May 17th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
And now one strike away…
May 17th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Bah, Ty Wigginton smashes one into the left-center field gap…
May 17th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
And Guardado gets a line out to center…22-22 record, and just 2.5 back of LAA….
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