It was a crazy night in baseball. In the year of the strikeout, offense woke up. A night after the Nationals scored 25 runs, which was the most any team has scored since the Rangers put up 30 on the Orioles back in 2007, the Dodgers scored 21 against […]
Chris Davis is coming to town. The Longview, Texas, native arrived with the Rangers with a bang. In 2008, he hit 17 home runs in just 80 games, batting .285. His future looked bright. Except for one thing. He struck out. A lot. In 2009, he hit 29 home […]
The Rangers didn’t lose any offense at the trade deadline. They also didn’t gain any. And since they couldn’t find any last night, just like that their four-game winning streak stopped dead in its tracks. The new look Rangers looked pretty much like the old look Rangers. Arizona 6, Texas […]
Baseball can be cruel. Baseball can be wonderful. Bartolo Colon has made four attempts to notch career win 246, which would make him the winningest pitcher in Latin American history, and maybe then call it a career and ride off into the sunset on a horse. A really big, […]
The 1969 New York Mets. The 1997 Oakland Athletics Now the 2018 Texas Rangers. Only three teams in major league baseball history have struck out nineteen times and won a game. And, with the 4-3 win yesterday at Minute Maid Park, only one team this year has sweep the […]
The Rangers have just destroyed the Astros twice in every facet of the game on the field. But in the clubhouse, it’s hasn’t been all rainbows and unicorns. According to Levi Weaver’s latest article on The Athletic—the wonderful new on-line sports daily that has collected some of the country’s […]
The race is on. Heading into a crucial three-game series with division-leading Houston, Texas was just twenty-five games back. Now, it’s just twenty-four. The Rangers carved one whole game off the Astros lead last night, inching closer to first place. It might be too early to dream, but a […]
The Cole Hamels era is over. And by most accounts, it was a successful one, his last four starts notwithstanding. But when you speak of pitching on a franchise like Texas, just being able to get the ball to the plate puts you among the elite tier. If nothing […]
***** TODAY’S GAME: Trevor Cahill (1-2, 2.95) vs. Bartolo Colon (5-8, 4.85) Game time: 7:05 How the Athletics hit against Colon. How the Rangers hit against Cahill.
Huge. Lead. Nine. Outs. Away. Walk. Walk. Walk. Walk. Walk. Walk. Flub. Outs. Slip. Past. Lead. Gone. Over. Used. Arms. Gift. Runs. Kela. Blew. Save. Huge Lead Lost. Game. Over. Walk. Away. Bury. Head. Fail. Stun. Pain. Hurt. Slow. Burn. Rage. Many Cuss Words. Wild. Card. Gone. ***** TODAY’S […]
