Rangers hang on for Harden's first win
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Rangers hang on for Harden's first winRangers hang on for Harden's first winRich Harden says he feels great physically, and he's close to putting it all together.He also doesn't sugarcoat things and he knows the numbers don't tell that story.#x Five walks. Two hit batters. Not a clean inning on the books.Positive PlateYes, he turned in a quality start, his second of the season in the Rangers' harrowing 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night that saw closer Neftali Feliz flirt with disaster in the ninth inning.But back to Harden. The results were fine Wednesday -- two runs in six innings for his first victory -- but everyone is waiting for the dominant pitcher that Harden and the Rangers think is bottled up somewhere inside the 6-foot-1 Canadian.
"It's not how I want to pitch," Harden said. "It's not how I wanted to start the year. I still have some work to do." Harden says it might be a question of finding the correct arm slot. It's not like he's getting crushed out there. He's allowed 21 hits in 23 2/3 innings,google排名, including only four against the White Sox,Positive Platewhich seems to support his argument that he is getting better."It's a positive that guys aren't squaring up on me," said Harden, who was helped by three double plays on Wednesday.
But his command is still an issue, and Harden knows it.#x He has 23 walks -- that's one free pass per inning. He still has his opponents feeling they can get to him, and that's not the way it was with Harden when he was in Oakland and had one of the best young arms in baseball."Early in that game, we couldn't do a lot of damage," White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said. "Harden was doing everything to give up runs, but he makes one pitch every inning. Just one pitch in every inning he pitches to get out of it." Harden can live with hitting a few batters because he's being aggressive. But he was disgusted with a leadoff walk to former Rangers shortstop Omar Vizquel to start the sixth inning.Vizquel took a called third strike in the third inning. Harden sensed Vizquel didn't want to take the bat off his shoulder in the sixth. But Harden walked him after falling behind by throwing three changeups for balls, getting the count full and then missing the strike zone with a splitter. Later in the inning, Carlos Quintin hit a two-out three-run home run on a slider to make it 5-3 and get the White Sox back in the game.#x"The walks are what are hurting me," Harden said.Harden wasn't the only Rangers pitcher struggling with his command.Positive PlateFeliz was one batter away from getting pulled from a save situation or a tie game in the ninth inning.相关的主题文章：
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