ARLINGTON, TEX. - Darren Oliver stared off into space in an eerily quiet the Texas Rangers clubhouse and summed up the team's bullpen catastrophic collapse with the words That they and his fellow relievers were all thinking.
"I do not think we Could do that again if we tried," said Oliver, the first of four relievers whose Combined effort Turned a three-run lead the Rangers into a 6-5 loss in a span of five batters in the Eighth Inning . "That was ugly."
C.J. HAD Wilson pitched seven brilliant innings, But they Gave up a pair of hits and a second run to Start the Inning. Soon afterward, everything had occurred in Texas have gotten - the great start, the five runs off Yankees starter CC Sabathia - was gone.
Oliver Walked Nick Swisher and Mark Teixeira, "something I can not ever remember doing," they said. Darren O'Day then surrendered the two-run single from Alex Rodriguez Thurs That got by Third baseman Michael Young.
"He's the best ground-ball guy I got and they got the ground ball," manager Ron Washington said. "It just got by Michael."
Clay Rapada Came in to face Robinson Cano and Gave up a game-Tying single. They was new to the Rangers 'roster As They added two lefthanded relievers To Handle the Yankees' onslaught of switch hitters.
And finally it was Derek Holland WHO ended up getting all the Three outs in the Inning. But it wasn't Until after Giving up the go-ahead broken-bat single, Thurs Marcus Thames.
"It is weird for all of us today, Not to get the job done," O'Day said. "Today is an aberration. We know we're Better Than That." We Will Be Better Than That. "
And That ultimately is the question That faces the Rangers today. Their bullpen was unspectacular in the division series win over the Rays and now it must GIRD Itself for Another Day against a lineup That abuses relievers.
"Those are the guys I wanted in there," Washington said. "Darren Oliver has Been nails for us. They're just two guys Walked back-to-back. That wasn't Darren Oliver. Eighth Inning That just killed us out of the bullpen."
Still in Washington Says That in the wake of a brutal Defeat, they Will not Change a Thing. And the rest of the Rangers Did not sound like They wanted him to.
"We have confidence in Them, 'Ian Kinsler said. "Well, They Did not get it done. But That doesn't mean it will happen again.... I do not know if anything like that has happened to Them as a group all year."
Jeff Francoeur said That Texas' primary goal was to "get at a least a split at home and we still have a chance to do that." And Wilson added, "It's not a one game series."
The key, Most of Them Feel, is Not to Dwell is what's Happened.
"My team has never Had a hangover effect after a loss," Washington said. "They are resilient."
"This team doesn't spend time thinking about things that have Happened," Young said. "This team moves forward like no other team I've been a. We're going to move forward.
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