Call the jeweler, Mike Minor just cut another gem. Just when it seemed Mike Minor couldn’t get any better, he goes out and throws another masterpiece. Eight scoreless innings with nine strikeouts. He allowed more baserunners than he would have liked, giving up seven hits and issuing two walks, […]
Joey Gallo hits a home run every 11.8 official at-bats. He has ninety-nine career home runs. In 1,173 at-at bats. One more to 100. The major league record for quickest to 100 career home runs belongs to ex-Phillie Ryan Howard. He got to 100 in 1,141 at-bats, just thirty-two […]
Right now, Chris Woodward is trying to find out who he can trust in the bullpen. It’s like a Russian spy novel. He is too deep into the season to think his Bottom Three starters are going to give him any sort of length. He can expect four innings, […]
Joey Gallo is continuing his remarkable transformation from oddity to All-star, with three walks and his tenth home run of the year. That’s good for second in the American League. But what’s even more amazing is his on-base percentage now sits at .404. Shin-Soo Choo is proving what the term lead-off […]
After the first four weeks of play, mostly against the American League West, one thing is clear. It’s a one-team division. To paraphrase the movie Money Ball, you have Houston, then ten feet of crap, then everyone else. It used to be twenty feet. Houston isn’t what it was. What […]
First we’ll use Spahn Then we’ll use Sain Then an off day Followed by rain Back will come Spahn Followed by Sain And followed We hope By two days of rain Written by Gerald Hern, sports editor for long defunct Boston Post, during the Boston Braves 1948 pennant drive, […]
The five-game losing streak started with Mike Minor’s dud in Oakland, a 6-1 loss in which he gave up four earned runs in six innings. That was on the heels of his complete game shutout gem. But last night the ace of the staff did what an ace should […]
It’s always difficult when you struggle at the beginning of the season because the numbers are out there in plain sight. If you start off strong, say, hitting .360, then have a stretch where you’re hitting .160, it gets hidden. But when you start out hitting .160, it’s a […]
At the beginning of every game, a manager looks at his team and says to himself, “All I need is 27 outs. Who is going to get them?” Texas’s starter Taylor Hearn got one. That’s a start. That’s something to build on. In all fairness to Hearn, it really […]
Well, Nomar Mazara is heating up. That’s the good news. Actually, that’s not the good news. The good news is the Rangers are leaving Oakland, a town so undesirable, if a tornado ripped through downtown, it would do $200 million in improvements. Since 2017, Texas is 4-18 in Oakland. […]
