THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIRY KANSAN
FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2008
SPORTS
3B
FRIDAY GRIDLOCK
Katie Martincich (volleyball)
Justin Thornton (football)
Danny Van Orsdel (cross country)
Jake Sharp (football)
Last meal?
Pizza Wheel pizza and Hang 10 smoothie from Juice Stop
Spaghetti
Sesame chicken
Crab legs
Last concert ticket you bought?
Mile High Music Festival, Denver
Couldn't tell you
Country Stampede or DMX
Shinedown
Last book you read for fun?
Love is a Mix Tape
Don't read much
“The Game” by The Pick-Up Artist
Emmitt Smith's biography
Favorite Olympic moment?
Michael Phelps' eight gold medals
Usain Bolt winning the 100 and 200
Shawn Johnson winning gold on the beam
When the Jamaican guy walked off on the hundred
Last movie that made you cry?
I don't cry at movies
“The Lion King” when I was in the second grade
“Simon Birch”
I don't cry
Who is Joe Biden?
Football coach
Don’t know
No clue
No idea
MLB
Rangers sweep Royals in KC
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A little luck and a little hustle were all the Texas Rangers needed to pull off their first three-game sweep this season.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia scooted home when pitcher Brian Bannister flubbed a popup, giving Texas the go-ahead run in their 3-2 win over Kansas City on Wednesday night.
"Give him 10 more of them and he won't drop them," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "Salty didn't take it for granted the ball was going to be caught. It worked out well for us."
Matt Harrison won for the fourth time in August, pitching the Texas Rangers to a 3-2 win over the crumbling Kansas City Royals.
The Royals have lost 10 of their last 11 games and 17 of 20, falling
to a season-worst 21 games below .500.
This one got away in the seventh inning. Chris Davis and Saltalamacchia hit two-out doubles to tie it, then Saltalamacchia came home when Joaquin Arias' routine popup went off the heel of his glove.
Harrison (6-3), a 22-year-old rookie left-hander, went 4-1 in five August starts. He held the Royals to two runs, one earned, on seven hits in 6 2-3 innings, giving the Rangers their first franchise sweep of more than two games at Kansas City.
Frank Francisco worked a flawless ninth to log his first career save.
Francisco was 0-for-6 in save opportunities this season before retiring the Royals in order in the ninth, striking out two.
The Royals stranded seven runners and went 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position.
"Obviously, the error hurt, but it shouldn't have been as close as it was either." Royals manager Trey Hillman said. "A lot of that has to do with lack of run production when we should produce. Third inning, runner on second, nobody out, and we don't get him over. Fourth inning, runners on second and third with nobody out and we don't score a run out of that, too."
Bannister (7-14), who struck out a career high eight, has not won in 11 starts since a June 23 victory over Colorado. He has not defeated an American League club since Cleveland on June 1. Bannister gave up three runs, two earned, on six hits and a walk. Not to mention the error.
"It just didn't catch it," Bannister said. "It should have been caught and you don't get a lot of practice at it. It should have stuck in the glove and it didn't. It's kind of unexpected."
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