ST25: Rangers win slugfest 15-13, lose Hunter

This was the first of two games played on Thursday. Was a split squad deal with one game being during the day, and the other during the night. This was another of those no pitching games. I talk about that lot. This would be a story where you wouldn't write about the pitching at all, since there was virtually none of it good. Today's no exception, and there was one extra lovely piece of news coming out of this game which I'll get to later. The game was one of these kind. Rangers up 2-0, tied 2-2, Rangers up 6-2, tied 6-6, Rangers down 8-6, Rangers up 10-8, tied 10-10, Rangers down 12-10, Rangers up 15-10, final score 15-13. Of the 18 half innings, nine of them had scoring going on, including three innings where there were more than 2 scored (fortunately, all three of those were by the Rangers - 4 in 3rd, 4 in 6th, 5 in 8th). The box score also looked weird, as this was one of those games in an NL park, and the Rangers got permission to use the DH. So other tha...