Give 'em five

Rangers 6 Royals 3
W-Rogers (6-2), May (1-6), S-Cordero (13)
Royals Season Record: 12-25

Giving up 5 runs in one inning will usually do a team in. That's what happened tonight in the 2nd inning. Coming off a fantastic start against Oakland last Saturday night, May looked bad tonight getting pitches out over the plate like he did with the count 0-2 to Blalock that he promptly parked in the seats behind the right field wall.

Our bull pen was lights out again tonight. They pitched the final four innings of the game, giving up zero runs, 4 hits and 3 bases on balls. Nate Field dropped his ERA to 1.76 and looks very capable, along with Huisman, to close games.

Beltran was 1 for 5 tonight and never looked comfortable. In the past six games he is 4 for 25 and at times looks lost. He is way too good for that to continue though. Hopefully he breaks out of his slump in Oakland. We are going to need somebody who can get on base against that staff. Last weekend, we had 14 total hits in the three game series.

Tomorrow night in Oakland, we've got Anderson (1-5, 6.97 ERA) going up against Mulder (4-2, 3.45 ERA). No matter how you slice that match up, it doesn't look good for us. But games are not won or lost based on how the pitching match up looks before the game begins. And we've got Saturday to look forward to. Greinke gets his first start!