There are a lot of dimensions on a baseball field. Ninety feet between the bases. Sixty feet, six inches from the mound to home. 330 feet to the fences. Those are all important. But none more so than the tiny little 408-square foot area, roughly three square feet, that constitutes a major […]
Many positive things happened in the Rangers game last night. Rougned Odor worked a walk in the first, only his fifth walk of the year. He jauntily scampered to first base. The Rangers struck out only thirteen times, which means on the other fourteen outs, they were able to make contact […]
Sloppy, undisciplined, ugly. That’s how to describe the 2017 Texas Rangers. Doesn’t anyone know how to play baseball? Yes, it is a difficult game. But that’s no excuse to play it so poorly. It’s hard for every team. Most of them aren’t committing the same sins over and over again. […]
Now that the first month of the season is in the books, as a public service, here is a glossary of common baseball terms which are appropriate to you as a fan of the 2017 Rangers. Advancing a runner: To move a runner ahead safely to another base, often […]
Rangers fans saw a lot of unique things last night. Angels second baseman Danny Espinosa taking a Shin-Soo Choo bad hop grounder off his face was the least of it. They saw Carlos Gomez hit for the cycle. His first hit was a double. About five feet from second, […]
In the first inning, for just the second time this season, the Rangers led off the game with two consecutive hits. (Their first two hitters have both reached base two other times but, in both of those, the first hitter was thrown out trying to steal, so last night […]
This next stretch of games is going to tell us a lot about the Rangers. After yesterday’s off day, they play seventeen in a row starting today, thirteen of which are in division. Three at home with the Angels, then the first series against the Astros, at Houston for […]
Due to some unforeseen mechanical failures, and a really bad GPS, the semis from Surprise, Arizona, finally arrived with the Rangers bats, nearly four weeks late. It was about time Many of the Rangers starters doubled their hit totals for the year in just one game. Shin-Soo Choo nearly […]
The Rangers woke up, scored a run in the fifth, then went back to sleep, like they always do. The Rangers are the small town America team. They roll up the tent after the seventh inning. In twenty-one games, the Rangers have scored a total of just fourteen runs from […]