Ron Washington was VERY impressed with Andruw Jones

Last night in the Rangers/Angels game, Andruw Jones hit home runs in his first three at bats. (Joe Torre is no doubt saying "What the he....")

Rangers manager, Ron Washington was quite impressed.

Per AP: "I saw Kirby Puckett do some great stuff. I saw Dave Engle* do some great stuff. Matter of fact, I saw Mickey Hatcher get nine hits in a row - nine straight in three straight days," Washington said. "This ranks as one of the highest because he got us a win for it."

Hmmmmm.

I am having a little difficulty wrapping my head around the fact that Washington put Jones' feat in with this pantheon of baseball greats including Kirby Puckett (admittedly great), Dave Engle and Mickey Hatcher. (Now if he threw in Mackey Sasser then maybe he would have a point). I guess that it is 1/3 of a compliment anyway.

Know what? I want to see Kevin Millwood throw a near no-hitter or strike out 18 in a game or something. I want to see Washington gush about that and compare it to the accomplishments of Nolan Ryan, John Henry Johnson and Paul Kilgus.

Hey, he said it!

*I did a quick search of Dave Engle's accomplishments and I am having a problem finding "great stuff". I did find an instance where in batting practice, he threw a ball which broke the nose of a teammate but I don't really consider this a great accomplishment (unless they were competing for a job or something).