Darvish improves to 5-1 as Rangers beat White Sox

He seems to be doing alright, but he is getting a lot of support from his batting order, too. Ganbarre, Yu-san !

During last night's game (above), I could see him laughing when, with two outs, 4-2, Rangers, he caught the toss from the first- (or second)-baseman, but his foot missed the first-base bag as the White Sox runner whizzed by, safe. He didn't laugh for long, however; the next guy up hit a homer to make it 4-4.

Yu is an incredible guy. These days, he is seen chatting in both English and Spanish in the dugout, all of them -- including Yu -- laughing hysterically. He's really "one of the guys." He makes a smooth effort to be that way.

It's great that he's having this early success, but we've seen it before from other Japanese pitchers starting their major league careers. I'll be interested to see what kind of success he's having in June and July, when he'll be facing batters who have faced him already. I hope he continues to do well.

Darvish is 5-1 , ERA 2.33. But guess what? Hiroki Kuroda is 4-1 with a 2.25 ERA.