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Rangers
6, Brewers 3
- I am wondering how many times a team has allowed home runs to the first two batters of a game, and still won.
- I poked around on Stathead but was unable to find a way to search for that.
- Merrill Kelly got barreled up on the first three balls in play of the game — the Brice Turang leadoff homer (on an 0-2 pitch, no less), the Jackson Chouri0 homer, and then the Christian Yelich blast to the wall in center.
- Those were the three hardest hit balls by the Brewers in the game. The only harder hit ball by the Rangers was Jake Burger’s fifth inning homer.
- That’s weird.
- Making it weirder is that Kelly didn’t allow another run until the sixth.
- The Rangers scored three of their runs on two Jake Burger homers — the second of which came with Josh Smith on second base, in what was the only hit the Rangers had with a runner in scoring position.
- Texas scored a run on a balk. They scored a run on a Rowdy Tellez bases loaded weak tapper. They scored a run on a Joc Pederson grounder where Joc ran fast
- Merrill Kelly topped out at 94.5 mph with his sinker, averaging 92.0 mph. Hoby Milner reached 88.2 mph with his sinker. Robert Garcia’s fastball touched 95.5 mph. Shawn Armstrong hit 95.0 mph with his sinker. Phil Maton touched 89.9 mph with his sinker.
- Jake Burger had home runs at 111.9 mph and 108.4 mph. Alejandro Osuna had a 106.9 mph ground out.
- So the Rangers have swept the best team in baseball, and have an off day on Thursday before heading out on a six game road trip that includes three games in Houston to start next week. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
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