Did you ever go to sleep and have one of those recurring nightmares? Like you discover you didn’t finish high school and had to go back and retake classes? Or your fingernails keep falling off? Or someone is chasing you and you cannot run? Or Sam Dyson is your closer? […]
Some good, some bad, some ugly from Week One. Nomar Mazara was very good. So good, in fact, he was named A.L. Player of the Week. His nine RBIs lead the league. He has ten hits, and is using the entire field. This is the Mazara we saw last […]
Sam Dyson entered the game: After one out: After a walk then a double play:
In their quest to win two games in a row, the Rangers were able to muster just two hits. Athletics pitcher Kendell Graveman stifled the Rangers offense which, up until last night, was the one part of the game that was clicking. Yu Darvish was up to his old tricks, […]
Okay. Raise your hand if, after the Rangers took an 8-0 lead in the first two innings and A. J. Griffin gave back half of it the next two, you were sure they were going to blow the lead again? After all, with disappointing starting pitching and abysmal relief pitching […]
It’s just three games. It’s just one series. It’s just the beginning of the season. The Rangers lost at least three in a row eight times last year, including right after their opening day win. So a win tonight puts them on the exact pace they were on last […]
Last season the Rangers had the second-worst bullpen in the major leagues. Only the team with the worst record in baseball, the Minnesota Twins, had a worse bullpen. Yet the Rangers didn’t make a single improvement to their pen over the off-season. The Rangers are 0-3. *** NO GAME TODAY. […]
With the game on the line, Mike Napoli the tying run at second, and no outs, the game called for the runner to be bunted to third. That way a sac fly, a ground ball to the right side of the infield, or even a wild pitch, could score […]
The first of the last thirty starts of the Yu Darvish era elicited the one word common to so many of his past starts as a Ranger. Disappointment. He had a 5-1 lead and couldn’t hold it. This is not the way Darvish, or the Rangers, wants to start […]
After 176 days of darkness, there is light again. Baseball is back. The world resets. 2016 has officially moved out of town and is living quietly in the pages of history. Disappointment gives way to hope. The Rangers will play 162 games over the next 183 days. At 183-days […]