Game 66: Texas at Kansas City

This is a series the Rangers should sweep. That's how I feel about it, going into it without doing any study of the pitchers. You could say that I have some extra bias.

Here's some extra food for thought. This series consists of these match-ups:

• Millwood vs. Meche
• Padilla vs. Davies
• Eric Hurley vs. Bannister

Kevin Millwood is 4-3 with a 4.65 ERA coming into this game. He is a career 5-3 against the Royals, and grabbed a win against Kansas City despite a poor pitching performance.

The Rangers rank first in team batting average, fourth in HRs, first in slugging percentage and first in scoring runs. The Rangers also rank last in ERA, 27th in strikeouts, and last in WHIP.

Kansas City, in those same categories, 18th in batting average, last in HRs, 28th in slugging percentage, 29th in scoring runs, 25th in ERA, and 16th in strikeouts.

Gil Meche is 3-8 with a 5.54 ERA. He is 4-8 in his career against Texas and is 1-4 at home this year. His ERA against Texas is 6.68 and has given up 18 HRs in 66 innings. That is one HR in 3 2/3 innings. Texas hits him for a .295 batting average.

This is going to be a smaller post, since my computer is having a few issues.

Forecast: Despite the issues, this is going to be an easy win for Millwood. I probably don't need all the numbers to know that the Rangers win it: 6-0. Johnny Out.

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