What a difference a week makes. Suddenly, the offense is clicking. Suddenly, the defense has been air tight. Suddenly, the bullpen hasn’t caused nausea. A.J. Griffin started the winning streak Tuesday with a complete game shutout. Six games later the Rangers are still winning. Griffin wasn’t spectacular, but he was […]
After playing five weeks of baseball where the offense called it a night after six innings, the Rangers have come alive late in the last three games. Four runs in the ninth on Thursday night and again on Friday night turned losses into last-inning wins. So, Saturday night, the […]
There isn’t a basketball game that has ever been played, professional or college, of which anyone would ever need to watch anything but the last two minutes. Which usually lasts about 45 actual minutes. The rest of the game is not essential. Every game comes down to the final […]
It was lining up to be another 2017 Texas Rangers game. The offense was ice cold. And what little chances they had on the base paths got erased by boneheaded running. But Martin Perez kept the Rangers close in what was his finest outing of the year. Luckily, he […]
Eric Nadel, in classic Nadel style, called the play of the San Diego Padres “buffoonery.” That’s pretty much what it took for the Rangers to win last night. You aren’t going to win too many games where you go 1-for-13 with runners in scoring position. Where your cleanup hitter […]
The only way to keep the Rangers bullpen from blowing a game is to keep the Rangers bullpen from getting into a game. And the way to do that is for the starting pitcher to pitch so well even the manager cannot possibly muster up a reason to take […]
When the Rangers had their last lost season, back in 2014, the story was no longer about the play on the field. That was abysmal. It was about the players who were getting the chance to play that wouldn’t have had the opportunity had the team been playing for something. […]
I let my buddy Sam borrow my car a while ago. He had some errands to run so I let him take it. That’s what friends do. When he brought it back, the car was totaled. A complete loss. I asked him what happened and he said, “Oh, sorry, […]
At least you can say this about the 2017 Texas Rangers. They are predictable. Watching the Rangers is like watching the Texas weather forecast in the summer. You know exactly what you’re going to get. With the weather, it will be unbearably hot morning, day and night. With the […]
At 9:15 central, the Rangers scored a run in the top of the first inning. Nearly five hours and twelve innings later, they scored again, this time two runs, to beat the Seattle Mariners 3-1. In between that first inning run and those thirteenth inning runs was a lot of […]
