Now that was a baseball game. Both teams’ aces dealing, going deep. Bullpens coming in to do their job. Tying the game, barely, in the ninth. Winning it in the tenth. The Rangers had gone twenty innings in a row without scoring. They were down 2-0. Garret Richards was […]
Bradford Doolittle, a writer for ESPN.com, a website and a network that pretty much ignore baseball, wrote an article last week that was pretty surprising, for two reasons. One, ESPN, as a partner of the NFL, usually goes out of its way to disparage baseball. Two, this article showed […]
Sabermetrics have taken over the game. Data is king. Teams are slaves to data. But only when it’s convenient. Only when it fits the narrative. For instance, here is an interesting piece of data: Adrian Beltre has played in 30 games this season. The Rangers are 9-21 in the […]
The face of the franchise is about to smile on us once again. Adrian Beltre is ready to come off the DL. That is going to cause a lot of lineup juggling, right when the lineup seems to finally be finding some momentum. According to T. R. Sullivan at […]
Oh, what getting a hit with runners in scoring position can do for a team. After falling behind early in what seemed to be another game where the offense fails to come through in the clutch, the Rangers crawled to the sixth inning down two runs, 4-2. Then the […]
Finally, Rougned Odor is starting to put together some semblance of an offense. After seeing his average fall to a dismal .171 due to a 2-for-11 performance against the Yankees, Odor has had three two-hit games. That’s seven hits in his last five games and last 17 at-bats, a […]
Just when the Rangers look like they might be heading in the right direction, reality sets in. Normally a split would be acceptable. But not against the Royals. Not at home. Not after an unlikely series win against the Yankees. But that’s what happens when so many aspects of […]
Bartolo Colon went into the game hoping for a win, which would give him 243, which would tie him with Juan Marichal for the most victories by a Dominican-born pitcher. That didn’t happen. But what did happen was just as noteworthy. Shin-Soo Choo hit a home run in the […]
Ruth and Gehrig. Mantle and Maris. Mays and McCovey. Bench and Perez. Bryant and Rizzo. Jeter and Williams. The greatest teams have a legendary tandem of hitters. Even with the Rangers, think Juan Gonzales and Pudge Rodriguez. Josh Hamilton and Michael Young. Look at the damage having two elite hitters […]
The Rangers lose three out of four to the last-place White Sox. They knocked them out of last place, allowing Chicago to pass Kansas City. Then they win two of three over the first-place Yankees, knocking them out of first place, allowing Boston to pass New York. Then they […]
