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 […]
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: […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
A bad season just got worse. Elvis Andrus breaks his elbow after being hit by a pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning of a worthless game. And just like that the best hitter in a lineup desperate for offense is lost for a significant amount of time. […]
If the Rangers hit the ground with a thud but there was nobody there to hear it, did they make any noise? Unfortunately yes. It made the sickening sound of a really bad baseball team. On Monday night, the Rangers announced attendance was 16,718. According to the Dallas Morning […]
Forget the defensive shifts. Forget the righty-lefty matchups. Forget the analytics about facing the Rangers. If you want to keep Texas off the scoreboard, try something really unconventional: put Rangers on the bases. They will politely leave them stranded. Time after time the Rangers have loaded the bases and […]
Baseball is all about stats. Stats are really just patterns. And the early patterns this year for the Rangers are they cannot come back once they are down in a game. If they are losing, they will lose. But they also don’t blow leads. If they are winning, they […]
