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Grant: Sloppy start to long road trip has ominous feeling for Rangers

SEATTLE - A few late-night thoughts on the Rangers after their 7-5 loss to Seattle Friday in what seemed an unseemly sloppy start to a long road trip:

-- The eighth inning seemed to sum up Shawn Tolleson's season all too perfectly. He came on in a one-run game and proceeded to strike Nelson Cruz out on a slider, only to have the ball skip away from catcher Robinson Chirinos and go all the way to the backstop.

It only got worse from there.

Tolleson couldn't handle Dae-Ho Lee's comebacker, which kicked off his foot.