Rangers Rover thru Twins – Fall 2005
Dateline: Browns Chapel On a crisp mid-October morning, this reporter headed out to the field early to check the playing surface conditions. Coach Goldstein was talking with one of the stadium owners. Coach Goldstein was explaining that the seven days of 7 rain did no...
Rays Again Shock Rangers 7-6 – Fall 2005
Dateline: Running Cedar On a cloudy fall evening, the Rangers took the field against the Rays for the exciting finale of the season series. Each team had won a game. The Rangers went down quietly in the first, but Tommy pitched an excellent bottom of the first. He...
Rangers Jump Past Jays 11-4 – Fall 2005
Dateline: Running Cedar On a truly perfect fall morning the Rangers took the field for the first time against the Jays. Tommy S. started the game on the mound for the Rangers and made things a little exciting by loading the bases with two outs. He settled down and...
Rangers Roll Past Twins 10-2 – Fall 2005
Dateline: Browns Chapel On an extremely pleasant and bright fall evening, the Rangers took the field for their inaugural match against the Twins. Juan led off with a walk. Bryon grounded out to third but Juan moved to second. Andy drilled a double to center to score...
Rangers Rumble Past Padres 16-7 – Fall 2005
Dateline: Fox Mill 2 On a pleasant fall evening, the Rangers took the field following their heartbreaking loss earlier in the week. Juan led off with a sharp double to left and moved to third quickly scoring on a wild pitch. Before the fans settled in, the Rangers...
Rays Rally to Surprise Rangers 4-3 – Fall 2005
Dateline: Running Cedar On a cloudy fall afternoon, the AA Rangers took the field after their exciting shutout on Saturday. Juan led off with a walk; Joe grounded out to short and moved Juan to second. Walks to Tommy, Andy, Max and Michael resulted in runs scored by...
Rangers Shutout Rays in Season Opener – Fall 2005
Dateline: Running Cedar On a picture perfect fall morning the 2005 AA Rangers took the field. Andy, the Rangers starter, struck out the first two and then induced a weak grounder back to him on the mound to quickly retire the Rangers. In the bottom of the first, the...
Reds Tie Cards 6-6 – Spring 2005
Dateline: Browns Chapel In a tune-up game for the Cards, the Reds looked great. Devon started and pitched two scoreless innings. Omar also threw from the mound and shut down the Cards. When all was said and done the game ended in a tie and the Reds concluded their...
Reds Playoff Hopes Ended by Pirates – Spring 2005
Dateline: Running Cedar After a thrilling sweep of the Cubs the Reds came into round one of the playoffs against the Pirates. It was another tough outing against the Pirates. This reporter will spare the gentle reader the details, but suffice it to say the Reds...
Reds Clip Cubs 9-6 – Spring 2005
Dateline: Fox Mill 2 It was a beautiful late Spring day, temperature around 80°, relative humidity 65-70 %. The Reds played their last home game against the second place Cubs. Nick took the mound in the first and he induced two groundouts to second and struck out a...