There isn’t a more appropriate day than Easter to ask when the Rangers bats are going to be resurrected. No matter how good the pitching has been, and it’s been good enough to win most games, you can’t win scoring two runs per game, which is the Rangers average since […]
Should it worry anyone that seven games into the season the Rangers have been shut out twice? They were shut out three times all of last year. In 2021 they were shut out three times in their first ten games. They lost 102 games that year. After coming hot out […]
Six games into the season, Josh Jung is starting to make a difference. He made a barehand play to throw out a runner at first early in the game. He drove in the Rangers second run with a single in the first to put the Rangers up 2-0. Then, when […]
Did the Rangers keep the receipt? The first time around, this new pitching the Rangers bought hasn’t exactly been what it the catalog promised. Jacob deGrom’s ERA is 12.27. Nathan Eovaldi’s ERA is 5.40. And, after last night’s 7-2 loss to Baltimore, Andrew Heaney’s ERA (please, for their safety, remove […]
There’s a reason the Rangers plunked down all those millions of dollars on pitching. (And a reason the Rangers haven’t had a winning season in so long.) Pitching wins games. The Rangers ran into some great Baltimore pitching last night, sneaking in one lousy single in an entire nine innings […]
“Oh no.” ESPN had Phillies shortstop Trea Turner mic’ed in the second inning when he responded to a Josh Jung fly ball deep to right that cleared the fence for a home run. Oh no was right if you were a Phillies fan this weekend. They got pounded by the […]
Hey, wait a minute. If the Rangers are going to average thirteen and a half runs a game, why did they need to go out and acquire all that pitching? Dane Dunning, Dallas Keuchel, Kohei Arihar, Mike Foltynewics, Spencer Howard, and the rest of the retreads the Rangers picked off […]
Forgives us here at Rangers Rounding 3rd for still being in early season pun mode. We weren’t able to work out all the silly word plays in spring due to missing some time with syntax errors. Speaking of that, it’s another day, another debut of a Texas Rangers starter who […]
August 15, 2020. That was the last time the Rangers were over .500. Two and a half years ago. Two and a half long, dark, painful, frustrating, forgettable years. It isn’t so much the Rangers being over .500 as it is how they did it. The exact opposite of how […]
Opening Day is hope. Sometimes it’s the naive hope of a kid wishing for a unicorn on a birthday candle. Sometimes it’s the realistic hope of blue skies and sunshine on your day off. Sometimes it’s the painful hope that Red speaks of to Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption when […]
