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Harrison teamed up with Teagarden for the third straight time Friday and the result was a complete game 6-0 win over Chicago. Together the pair has worked 21 innings together and the last 19 of them have been scoreless.
With Harrison struggling, manager Ron Washington paired them on April 27 at Baltimore. After two rough innings, Teagarden urged Harrison to remain focused on a quick tempo on the mound, but to slow his delivery down. Harrison responded with five shutout innings and his first win of the season.
Last Sunday, they teamed up again and though Harrison needed 100 pitches to get through five innings, he left with a shutout intact against the White Sox. On Friday, he faced the White Sox again. He worked with extreme efficiency and needed just 111 pitches to finish off his second complete-game shutout (he also beat Oakland last year). Harrison allowed four hits and a walk during the outing.
With Teagarden behind the plate, Harrison is 3-0 with a 1.71 ERA and has allowed just two walks in 21 innings.
RANGERS 6, WHITE SOX 0: Playing in their fourth city in six days, the Rangers showed no signs of fatigue. They pushed a run across in the first inning and two more in the second and kept pressure on the White Sox all game. The result was Texas' sixth win in the last seven games. On a night when CF Josh Hamilton (DL) and 3B Michael Young (back) were absent for most of the game, the Rangers got the bulk of their offense from the top of the lineup. 2B Ian Kinsler and INF Omar Vizquel, the Nos. 1-2 hitters in the lineup, reached base four times in nine plate appearances and combined for four RBIs.
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