Take 2 Roundup: Games of Thu, 1/24/08

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[size=24:4affe87a00][b:4affe87a00]TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE[/b:4affe87a00][/size:4affe87a00]
[size=18:4affe87a00]Correa Nine-Walks Mariners, Nearly No-Hits Them[/size:4affe87a00]

What a bizarre stat line. Texas starter Ed Correa took a no-hitter into the 9th inning before giving up 2 walks and a double to lose the no-no and the shutout, but the [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=929]Rangers held on to beat the Mariners 11-1[/url] on Thursday night. Correa went 8 innings, gave up only the 1 run-scoring double, walked 9 and struck out 8. To add injury to insult, Seattle slugger Ken Phelps, who is leading the Majors in homeruns with 22, wrenched his back on a 1st inning lineout, and is day-to-day.

There were only two other games in the AL (while they entire NL was off); the surging Tigers completed a 3-game sweep of the sinking Orioles with [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=927]a 9-2 pasting[/url], and the [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=928]Royals downed the A's, 2-1[/url], behind a sharp effort by Mark Gubicza.