A’s Throw The White Flag, Get Humiliated by The Rangers
The perfect game is long gone for Dallas Braden. He finally got his first win since he pitched that masterpiece, but after tonight it looks like he's going back to his losing ways.
Tonight was an absolutely disgraceful performance by Braden against the Texas Rangers. It wouldn't have been that big of a deal if Braden had been roughed up by certain hitters in the Rangers lineup such as Michael Young, Vladimir Guerrero, Nelson Cruz, Jorge Cantu, or even David Murphy, but that didn't happen.
It was the ninth place hitter in the Rangers lineup; a hitter so bad that he wasn't even hitting .100 for the season! The batter was Taylor Teagarden, who rarely gets playing time because he simply can't hit.
For some reason against th...
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