Other than the poor pitching, the poor defense, and the poor hitting, yesterday’s playoff game went pretty well. There was enough bad baseball to last a lifetime in Game 1. Bad defense and bad pitching feed off themselves. If only Beltre snags that line drive. If only Odor gets […]
The first opponent the Rangers have to face this post-season is history. No, it’s not as intimidating as the double barrel of history the Chicago Cubs are looking down. But history is still loaded and pointed right at them, nonetheless. Every Rangers fan, of course, knows what happened last […]
All it took was one swing by Edwin Encarnacion and the rematch was set. Now, all the emotion, all the redemption, all the retaliation, all the revenge, it all starts Thursday. There is no love lost between these two teams. It started last October when the Rangers gifted the […]
A lot was made about the fact that the Rangers run differential this season was only a sliver at +8. Eight American League teams were better in that department. Heck, the fourth place Los Angeles Anaheims were’t far behind. Texas scored just eight more runs than they gave up because, blinding […]
Well, that season was fun. We should do it again more often. The Rangers won ninety-five games, second most in team history. What’s amazing about this team was that it was a total team concept. While there were standouts on offense, led by Adrian Beltre and Elvis Andrus, when you […]
So, was it a good game for Colby or a bad game? He was the losing pitcher. And he did allow the game-changing three-run homer in the four-run third inning. But all four of those runs were unearned. But they counted. Funny thing about unearned runs is, they are not […]
It’s featured guys like Yohander Mendez, Anthony Raunado, Michael Roth, Luke Jackson, and Tom Wilhelmsen whose ERAs respectively were, and this is not a typo: 18.00, 17.19, 14.73, 10.80, and 10.55. Then there were the guys who were just classified as bad: Chi Chi Gonzales 8.71, Dario Alvarez 8.71, Andrew […]
Yankees rookie catcher Gary Sanchez is the best baseball player ever to play baseball in the history of baseball. I know that because the New York sports writers say he is. So do the east-coast radio personalities on MLB Network TV and radio. “He has turned the Yankees […]
The Rangers have won 94 games this season. In more than half of those, 49 to be exact, they have come from behind to win. It’s gotten to the point that when they don’t come from behind to win a game in the eighth or ninth inning, you think […]
Last season, with nine games left to go, the Rangers had a seemingly insurmountable lead of 4.5 games in the West. They proceeded to lose five of the next eight, and saw themselves up just one game going into the final game of the season. They turned comfort into agony. This […]