Once again, the Rangers are like the game Whack-A-Mole carnival game. You knock out one mole, another one pops up elsewhere. You keep trying to get all the moles but you can’t. That’s the problem when a team is going this bad. When they score runs, the rotation caves. When […]
They met in the 2010 World Series. But since then, they have had varying degrees of success. The Rangers went to one more World Series, in 2011. They lost. The Giants won that one in 2010, then two more, in 2012 and 2014. The Giants lost a Division Series in […]
The headline on texasrangers.com read “Rangers feasting on home cooking” after beating the Rays 5-4 in the first game of their series against Tampa Bay. Two doubles. One triple One home run. That was the extra-base power the Rangers “feasted” on in the just completed three-game series against the American […]
A couple days ago, after their thirteenth consecutive road loss, Rangers manager Chris Woodward called a team meeting. Managers try not to overdo those sorts of things. You can lose your team very quickly with too many meetings. But he felt it was time. He could sense the frustration in […]
They say when you go to a ballgame, you will see something you’ve never seen before. That occurred last night in Arlington. The Rangers ended up after the ninth inning with more runs scored than their opponent. Yes, you read that right. More runs than their opponent. Had that ever […]
Okay, the easy part of the schedule is over. The Rangers embarked on a three-city, nine-game road trip with a 22-27 record. They come home still stuck at 22 wins. Only now they face competition at the other end of the spectrum. The next ten-game stretch features three at home […]
There’s hope. Just 2.5 games behind Baltimore. Just two games behind Arizona. And just 1.5 games behind Pittsburgh. The Texas Rangers are close to the top. The top of the bottom. The top of being the worst team in baseball and getting the first pick in the draft. It sucks […]
Sunday, May 9. That seems like about six years ago. It was only twenty-three days ago. That was the day the Rangers scratched and clawed themselves back to .500. Since then they are 4-17. Last night they set the franchise record for consecutive road losses at thirteen. And counting. Last night’s […]
The Texas Rangers have been a bad team for most of the last eight years. In fact, they are ten games under .500 as a franchise since 2012. That’s a full decade of losing baseball. The two playoff teams in 2015 and 2016 almost seem like flukes rather than by […]
Memorial Day is a federal holiday established to honor and mourn the military personnel who have died in the line of duty. It’s one of three holidays honoring veterans. Armed Forces Day honors those currently serving. Veterans Day honors those who have served. The holiday was originally called Decoration Day, […]
