The first annual RangersRounding3rd.com night at the Ballpark was a lot of fun. Most of us got there early, ate, chatted, and got introduced to one another. TD was there, with TD Jr, and Mr TD, who we learned has an RR3 posting name, Ballboy, but has yet to post […]
It was vintage 2017 Rangers. Yu Darvish dominated for four innings. Then he falls apart in the fifth. For the second straight start. The bullpen fell apart again, too. But all is excused and forgiving because all the runs were unearned. So, it didn’t really happen. But it did. […]
Forget records for a second. Forget the fact that Houston is playing .704 ball and that Texas is playing .481. Forget Houston is in first and Texas is in third. That Texas is 12.0 games behind. Forget that Houston is on pace to win 114 games. And Texas is […]
Hey, look. Can you believe our luck? We just found a brand new can of gasoline. What should we do with it? Oh, I know. Let’s light this match and stick it in and see what happens. Okay. BOOM. Wow, there goes my leg. Why does that always happen? […]
Elvis Andrus has found a home batting second in the Rangers lineup. Last year, he sputtered there, and thrived batting ninth. This year, the Rangers had nobody who should legitimately be batting higher than seventh. So, they had to do something drastic. They moved Elvis to the two hole. […]
Unfortunately, he can’t pitch. ***** TODAY’S GAME: Matt Andriese (5-1, 3.24) vs. Nick Martinez (1-3, 4.69) Game time: 7:05 How the Rays hit against Martinez. How the Rangers hit against Andriese.
The Rangers ended the eighth week of the season with a badly needed win in Toronto, avoiding getting swept twice in a row. This season has been a tale of two teams. Plusses and minuses. One very good one and one very bad one. A ten-game winning streak surrounded […]
On the very first pitch of the game from a Toronto Blue Jays pitcher, Shin-Soo Choo hit a home run. On the next 145 pitches of the game from a Toronto Blue Jays pitcher, the Rangers were unable to do anything. They should have quit while they […]
Before 1972, before Ted Williams came, before Bob Short ran short on money in DC, before Frank Howard and Toby Harrah and Dick Bosman, before Arlington Stadium, before the Sherman Act that forced there to be a franchise in the first place, before all that, there was no Texas […]
Mike Napoli had four. Elvis Andrus, Rougned Odor and Pete Kozma had three each. Joey Gallo had two. So did Ryan Rua. DeShields, Lucroy, and Mazara each had one. The Rangers struck out twenty times. Out of twenty-seven outs. Every single batter struck out. The Rangers even managed to […]
