It’s time to call it a season. 120 comments
***** TODAY’S GAME: TBD vs. Martin Perez (1-2, 13.14) Game time: 2:05 How the Mariners hit against Perez.
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Offense needs a nudge. 215 comments
After going ahead and being just four outs away from a win, then eventually giving up five runs in the final inning and a third to fall 7-14, the Rangers could use some good news. It might come today. Delino DeShields says he’s ready to return to the Rangers, […]
Can’t crack the rotation. 190 comments
Bartolo Colon has made two starts for the Texas Rangers. He has gone six innings in one, seven-and-two-thirds in the other. In this day and age, that is about as complete a game as a pitcher can get. He has allowed one earned run in both games. His ERA […]
Undone by Cron again. 36 comments
Superman had Lex Luthor. Batman had the Joker. Rachel Dolezal had Reality. The Texas Rangers have C. J. Cron. He is the Rangers arch nemesis. It doesn’t matter that he traded his Angels uniform for a Rays uniform. He struck again yesterday in the sixth inning. Here’s a guy […]
Firsts. 176 comments
Two firsts happened last night. One, the Rangers had their highest run total of the season, at seven. And the won, because… Two, Matt Moore picked up his first win.He finally pitched a game he could post about social media marketing Facebook. In his previous three games, he didn’t […]
Reality check. 148 comments
Bring back the Astros. After their best series of the year against Houston, the Rangers return flight to reality landed in Tampa Bay. The Rays had been one of the two teams in the American League worse than the Rangers. But last night Tampa Bay had a secret weapon: […]
Perfect enough. 160 comments
Bartolo Colon retired the first twenty-one Houston Astros he faced last night. He walked Carlos Correa to lead off the eighth inning to lose the perfect game. Then Josh Reddick doubled to end the no-hitter. Then Yuli Gurriel scored Correa with a sac fly to end the shutout. […]
The comeback kids. 339 comments
Finally, after eleven attempts at erasing a deficit, the Rangers do it in a huge way, digging themselves out of a 5-0 hole against last season’s best team in baseball. And the kids led the way. The big heroes were fresh-off-the-minor-league-bus in Ronald Guzman and Isiah Kiner-Falefa. The two newly-minted […]
Radical new thinking on using a closer. 189 comments
In three of Hamels’s four starts so far this season he has allowed a first batter home run. Twice on the very first pitch. So three of the fifteen games the Rangers have played have been over after the very first batter. When you win four games out of […]
Don’t buy it. 405 comments
Thursday was an off day for the Rangers. A cynic would suggest they have had ten off days so far. The Rangers were the only team to have not had an off day yet. They desperately needed yesterday to take a breath. But mostly to hide. After fourteen games, […]