A developing game situation...

Rangers manager Ron Washington is racked by indecision. Racked. It's literally making his face muscles twitch and skin creep.

The situation: His starter, Kevin Millwood, handed a 6-1 lead, gave up five unanswered runs in the 4th and 5th and was pulled. Then his team regained the lead, 8-6, but reliever Frank Francisco has allowed two runners on in the 8th while recording just one out (David DeJesus earned his Major League-leading 18th HBP).

Washington is currenly squirming over whether to bring in lefty Bill White, who has never made a Major League appearance after eight years in the minors. He's 28 and has waited eight years for this...

What's Washington going to do?
White, who the FSN Southwest announcers have compared to Jimmy Morris, Dennis Quaid's character in The Rookie, is loose in the pen and ready, but Washington just handed the ball to Joakim Benoit. This is a mistake. I know the game's close, but White has waited eight years for his debut, and his parents drove up to Arlington to see this game -- God forbid any of you have to drive to Arlington to watch the Rangers, especially on a rainy day with about a 900-person crowd dwindling to three dozen throughout the night -- and you think he's, what, nervous? I think he's ready...
Ross Gload: holy crap!

Lunging for first, his foot slipped off the bag and you can probably guessed what happened next. Scary stuff.Hoping for extra innings. We want Bill White!
11:42 p.m.: Well, no Bill White, but the Royals made another rally in the 9th, coming one run short when Tony Pena Jr. grounded into a fielder's choice to second with the tying run in scoring position.

Now, about why Tony Pena Jr. was at the plate and not, say, 39-HR-man Craig Brazell...