The Rangers had a really great shot at a rare four-game winning streak. What they ended up with was a doubleheaders split. They also ended up leapfrogging over three teams in wild card race that nobody seems to want to win. So here is the deal: They have twenty-three […]
The old fashioned double header. I miss those days when it was actually scheduled, when you could go to the ballpark knowing you had five hours of baseball ahead of you. Now you get five hours of baseball in a typical 1-0 Rangers-Padres game, with twenty pitching changes and […]
While the Rangers cling onto their wild card hopes like Jack Dawson clung to that drifting piece of furniture in the frigid Atlantic in Titanic, it’s worth noting that the second wild card has historically been a team that has had a pretty good season. This year’s Race of […]
After a weekend series in which the Rangers’ overworked and undermanned bullpen was overtaxed yet again, blowing one game late and threatening to blow the other two against the Los Angeles Trouts of Mike Trout, the following is a public service to all major league managers on how to […]
An old nemesis showed up again last night in Arlington: the Rangers bullpen collapse. And while that was the Rangers’ nineteenth blown save of the season, you may be surprised to realize that last night’s blown save was the Rangers first since July 2. The bullpen went fifty-two games […]
Lost in the devastating news about Adrian Beltre being done for the season was the news that the Rangers traded for a new pitcher at the waiver deadline. Miguel Gonzalez is now a Ranger, coming over from the White Sox. He is a right-handed starter with a career 3.88 […]
There aren’t a whole lot of positives about yesterday’s game. The Rangers lost. The Twins, who the Rangers are supposedly battling for a wild card spot, won. And Adrian Beltre limped off the field with a pulled hamstring that will require an MRI. There aren’t rose colored glasses big […]
If there is one moment this season that defines Joey Gallo’s incredible turn around, it was in the fourth inning of last night’s game. Before this season, Joey Gallo was a strikeout machine. Throw a pitch anywhere in the same zip code and he swung at it. Flailed is […]
After losing six of their first seven meetings this season against the Astros, the Rangers are 5-2 in their last seven. The season series is returning to normalcy. Since the Astros moved into the American League, they have resided in the Rangers back pocket. Texas was 15-4 against Houston […]
So, the Rangers and Astros series is being played in Tampa Bay, of all places, because the Rangers refused to play ball. They refused to swap series. They said no to letting the Astros play these next three in Arlington, and then moving the series at the end of […]