Games are often won or lost in one inning. Seasons might be as well. The fifth inning the defining inning of not only yesterday’s game, but also the Rangers re-vamped rotation. And maybe even the season. Just like that, the Rangers rotation has been transformed. They jettisoned Shelby Miller to […]
Joey Gallo felt something in his side when he was in centerfield. Then, he felt it again on a check swing. He was immediately taken out of the game. It’s not good when you’re removed mid-game. It’s really not good when you’re removed mid-at-bat. Gallo has a strained oblique muscle. […]
The kid gloves are off. No more mollycoddling Rougned Odor. He needs to step up or sit down. While those are the sentiments of ninety-nine percent of all Rangers fans, it hasn’t been echoed by Rangers management. In 2017, during a miserable season when he hit .204, they insisted on […]
Every once in a while, Mike Minor is human. And when he is, he needs his offense to show up and bail him out. A bad day for Minor is three earned runs in five innings. That would be nirvana for most of the other Rangers starters. In fact, he […]
Some things we haven’t seen the Rangers do in a while, we saw them do yesterday. Win a series on the road. Not have a losing road trip. Have a comeback victory on the road. Hit with runners in scoring position on the road. It was one of the more […]
The Rangers went into this season with three of the worst pitchers at the bottom of their rotation than they’ve ever had. And, given this team’s pitching history, that’s saying something. But two of the Bottom Dwelling Three are no longer in the rotation—one due to injury the other […]
Every baseball season has a narrative and this year’s is about a team that simply cannot win on the road. When you dig into why, there are no easy answers. It’s not like they leave their bats at home, or the pitchers all develop Scheppersitis once they get on an […]
Back in 2012, in a small village in Spain, a woman decided to restore a masterpiece that had been painted in the 1930s but had since deteriorated What she ended up doing was one of the biggest debacles in art history that made her and the painting a laughing stock. […]
You can look at last night’s game as a disappointing loss. Or you can look at it as another bit of Rangers magic. Texas is a team that doesn’t seem to want to die. They were five games under .500 just twelve days ago. They lost nine out of twelve. […]
What looked like another Rangers road game turned into anything but that. Drew Smyly gave up three in the second inning to put the Rangers down early. As usual. But then something unusual happened. A few things, in fact. One, he stopped giving up runs. Two, he pitched six innings, […]
