Despite giving Texas 7+ innings and allowing only three earned runs, Millwood took the loss as the offense was only able to muster a couple of runs thanks to RBI basehits by Ian Kinsler and Elvis Andrus.
"I didn't think I had the best stuff in the world, but it was good enough to compete," said Millwood, who was charged with three earned runs on seven hits."It just wasn't good enough to win. I just didn't make the key pitches when I needed to."
Carlos Quentin, Jermaine Dye and Paul Konerko all gave Chicago RBI singles, putting just enough on the board to pick up the win, 3-2.
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In the rubber match of the 3 game set again Chicago, Texas' Vicente Padilla turned in a historic start, going 7 innings and allowing only 1 hit. With his performance, he became the first player in Rangers history to throw 2 consecutive one-hit starts.
"I was keeping [my pitches] low, and they were swinging at it," Padilla said through an interpreter. "My fastball was moving a lot."
"[Maybe] three starts ago there were questions about his velocity -- and the thing about Padilla, you don't know if that's by design or if that's him," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "He can pitch. He can manipulate the baseball. He can do some good things. It just took him a while to get going."
The offense was led by Hank Blalock, who went yard for the 8th and 9th times on the year. It was the 7th time in his career Blalock has had a multi-homer game.
Chris Davis added his 8th homerun of the season.
"Those guys grind it out, man, especially those at-bats in the fifth inning against Colon," Washington said. "[We] had a couple walks there, and then we chopped some balls and we made some things happen, which is what you have to do."
Texas leaves Chicago winners of 5 of their last 7 games.
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