There’s an old baseball axiom that good pitching beats good hitting. The Rangers proved last night that bad pitching beats bad hitting. The Twins’ Phil Hughes came into the game with a 5.40 ERA for the year and a 4.42 ERA for his ten-year career. But his bad was […]
Baseball is a 162-game season. But, really, it’s a series of mini-seasons where teams evolve through different ecosystems to see what they are all about. So far what we know about this Rangers team is Dyson isn’t the closer, the offense isn’t clicking yet, and, yesterday aside, it’s a […]
Offense is over-rated. The 1906 Chicago White Sox were dubbed the Hitless Wonders. Their entire team batting average for the year was .230. They won the World Series. For context, last season the Padres had the lowest team batting average in baseball at .235. In 2015, the Padres also had […]
The Rangers hit four home runs yesterday. That gives them twenty-five for the season. That leads the American League. (Milwaukee has thirty-three.) They’re also last in team batting at .205. Which means, they don’t always hit the ball, but when they do, they hit a home run. It also means […]
It was an incredible at-bat. Ten pitches. But DeShields battled. And in the end, he poked a single to left field to score Joey Gallo from second for the only run of a thirteen-inning game. It was an incredible at-bat in a game the Rangers sorely needed. Can one at-bat be a turning […]
The Rangers ended their first road trip of 2017 going 3-6. Here are the highlights: (click on image to go to video) ***** TODAY’S GAME: Danny Duffy (2-0, 1.80) vs. Andrew Cashner (0-1, 5.06) Game time: 7:05 How the Royals hit against Cashner. How the Rangers hit against Duffy.
When I was a kid, we moved into a new house. Our next door neighbors had a dog that lived in their back yard. It was a mean dog. Crazy mean. Until they started giving him the cbd dog treats then the dog was a lot calmer. The benefits of […]
At first I thought, you have to feel bad if you are a Texas Rangers starting pitcher and Jeff Banister is your manager. He has so little faith in you that, no matter how well you do your job, he cannot help himself but to replace you in […]
The pattern is all too familiar so far for the last-place Texas Rangers. The offense jumps out to an early lead, then knocks off early for the day. The starters are good, but not quite sharp enough to keep runs from leaking into the boat. The defense is sloppy, […]
This is pretty much the perfect blueprint of how to go 4-7. Yes, the Rangers have gotten really good offense. But you can’t count on that night in and night out. And when the offense doesn’t show up, you have to be solid everywhere else. The office hasn’t shown […]
