Young Walks Off, Texas Hits The Road

After another dissapointing loss to the Kansas City Royals, a game which saw Kevin Millwood continue his hot pitching with a complete game, 2 run effort, Texas was desperate for a win in the final game of the series before heading out on a seven game roadtrip.

Kansas City pitched well the entire series and today was no different, as Kyle Davies battled back from a 4-walk, 2-run first inning to shut down the Rangers offense, striking out eight and limiting them to 3 runs on 3 hits in six innings of work.



Vicente Padilla struggled again, allowing five earned runs in as many innings, giving up two more homeruns in the process. But the bullpen bailed Padilla out, pitching 4 scoreless innings, giving the offense a chance to chip away at Kansas City's 5-3 lead.

The offense didn't let them down, picking up two runs in the bottom of the 8th thanks to rbi's by both Nelson Cruz and Chris Davis, tying the game 5-5.

In the bottom of 9th, Michael Young, historically one of Texas' better clutch players, hit it a walk-off, game-winning homerun off a 96 mph fastball from Kyle Farnsworth, sending Texas on the road with a 6-5 victory.

- David Murphy now has more runs batted in (1) this season than he does hits (0).

- Frank Francisco hasn't allowed an earned run in 5 appearances this season.

- Ian Kinsler has now reached base in his last 12 games.