A buddy of mine who is a Rangers fan was getting all excited about Hamilton last week. I told him that the Rangers would still finish at least 10 games behind the Astros, and he responded with something like, "Yeah, right...lastros 4ever lol". Not even a week later and we're 75% of the way to that goal.
Castro in the lineup for the second straight game vs LHP. I wish we had better bench guys vs LHP to platoon with Rasmus and Valbuena. Tonight's lineup: 2B Jose Altuve (R) 3B Luis Valbuena (L) RF George Springer (R) DH Evan Gattis (R) 1B Chris Carter (R) LF Colby Rasmus (L) CF Jake Marisnick (R) C Jason Castro (L) SS Jonathan Villar (S)
Yeah ol Jon Daniels is just trying to recapture what he destroyed in Texas, meanwhile Nolan is with us and laughs and laughs and laughs.
Marisnick continues to dominate. I don't know where his #'s will end up, but I love to dream that he's this perfect/elusive combo he's showing now--CF with elite speed/defense who can also hit for average and some power. Few and far between..
I think I picked a good night for my brother to fall back in love with the team: Spoiler (Huge pic, sorry but I loved it)
Liking going to pen early. Hopefully not going to need it tomorrow with McHugh and Deduno probably didn't have much left.