Today is National Baseball Day. Other than opening day, it’s the best day of the year for baseball fans. Four playoff games in one day. Wall-to-wall baseball. Wall-to-wall drama. Wall-to-wall joy. The American League has already played its Game 1s. It was a bad day for socks of all colors. The […]
This one-game wild card playoff format has come under some attack. “That’s not how baseball works. All year long you are playing a series, now it’s one game?” “You win 105 games in a season and your entire year could be gone in nine innings? That’s not fair.” Nobody ever […]
Two former Rangers had bad nights for the Yankees. Joey Gallo went 0-for-4 with a strikeout. Rougned Odor went 0-2 with a strikeout. Neither had endeared themselves to Yankees fans. Although, Yankees fans are a fickle bunch and tend to throw their players onto the scrap head much quicker than […]
The playoffs start today for baseball. The long dark reckoning starts for the Rangers. This season saw a lot of really great baseball. Very little of it came from Arlington. Even less when the Rangers went on the road. Here’s how Rangers faired against the leaders in the major categories. […]
Blanked by the Indians. It was a fitting end to the most inept of seasons. It was a season of questions that produced question marks rather than answers. Is there anyone offensively worth keeping? Of course, they will keep most everyone. First, it would be unlikely to replace an entire […]
Game 162 Day is here. The final day of the 2021 baseball season. Every game starts at the exact same time today. The final day was scheduled that way a few years ago in order to create a day filled with drama from bouncing from one game to another. It’s […]
Early on in yesterday’s game, while Spencer Howard was still on the mound generously gifting runs to the Indians, the Rangers announcers said they think Howard can be useful in certain roles in 2022. Here is a complete list of those such roles: 1. If you’re trying to determine if […]
The last series of the year is here. That is usually accompanied with sadness knowing the long baseball winter is ahead of us. But, the playoffs will be great. This final weekend will be amazing. Four teams in the American League are fighting it out for two wild card spots, […]
You’ve heard of Turn Back The Clock nights where teams will don classic uniforms from their past. The Rangers have created a Turn Back The Clock season. Back to the first two years in Texas when they lost 100-plus games. There will be four 100-loss teams this year. That used […]
That’s four starts now for A.J. Alexy. And three solid starts. It helps, of course, that his three wins as a starter have come off bad teams. The Rockies once and the Angels twice. And never mind his two bad outings have come against good teams. The Astros and the […]
