Texas Evens Series With Yankees, Survive Long Rain Delay

The night started off with a 2 hour & 24 minute delay, forcing most of the sellout crowd to sit around waiting for a storm that never came. The delay came from a particularly nast storm cell that was hit all around the ballpark. Only thing is, it never actually stared rainging until around 8pm, roughly an hour after the game was set to start.

"That was a long one," said second baseman Ian Kinsler. "A long one, but it was worth it to get the win."

And win they did, jumping out on the Yankees in the bottom of the first inning, scoring two runs thanks to a bases loaded single by Marlon Byrd.

Yankees starter Joba Chamberlain struggled with his control all night, walking four in as many innings of work. In the bottom of the fouth inning, Chris Davis hit a big homerun to dead cetner off Chamberlain, running the score to 3-0, but the Yankees came right back to tie the game up, getting a solo homerun by former Rangers All-Star Mark Teixeira in the fifth and two more runs in the top of the sixth.

But in the bottom of the sixth, Marlon Bryd hit a two-out double, then came around to score on a base hit by Jarrod Saltalamacchia. The Rangers added two more in the bottom of the seventh thanks to a sacrifice ground ball by Josh Hamilton and a sac fly by David Murphy. Both scoreing chances were set up by both Ian Kinsler and Michael Young reaching base at the beggining of their half of the inning.



Chris Davis then added another homerun in the bottom of the eight, the first multi-homer game game of his career.

"I definitely think it picked me up," Davis said. "I've said over and over the last few weeks have been tough. It's good to have a game that might help me turn the corner. I'm not anywhere where I need to be but I am getting closer."

Kevin Millwood battled for Texas, giving them 5 2/5 innings, allowing 3 earned runs and leaving the game tied.

"I definitely was ready to go get started, and then there was the rain delay," Millwood said. "Once the game started, I felt normal. They didn't really chase anything. I didn't feel I was that sharp tonight."

Texas' bullpen did the job though, shutting the Yankees down to the tune of 3 1/3 innings of scoreless baseball.

"We did a great job of executing," manager Ron Washington said. "We played baseball the way it was presented to us, and that's what it's all about."