Last night’s debate was highly anticipated. So much is at stake. There is so much to lose. But it didn’t take long for the fireworks. It didn’t take long for the trainwreck. If these are our two choices, we might be in serious trouble this fall. If these are our two choices, […]
You can look at it this way. In three games and twenty-six total innings, the Oakland Athletics were able to muster up runs in only one inning. Just one in twenty-six. That’s pretty impressive pitching, right? Okay, so they scored seven in that inning to put the game away […]
We can come off the ledge now. The crisis has been averted. The question has been answered. For everyone who has been agonizing and asking what’s wrong with Hamels and Darvish, apparently nothing is. Nothing is exactly what the Athletics have been able to get off the top two Rangers […]
It’s a game of numbers. Every action a player commits is turned into a number. Home runs. On-base percentage. Batting average on balls hit in play. RBIs after the seventh inning. Salary numbers, arbitration numbers, qualifying offer numbers. All that off-season stuff that determines the number of wins a […]
The Rangers have nine games left. They are 90-63. Cleveland has ten games left. They are 89-63. Just one half game behind Texas. Boston has nine games left. They are 89-64. Just one game behind Texas. The race for the best record in the American League, and with it home […]
Derek Holland just pitched himself off the playoff roster. He certainly won’t be one of the top four starters. And if he is not a starter, he certainly has no role in the bullpen. There is no place on the playoff roster for Holland. And that’s a shame because he […]
He’s number one in home runs with 20. He’s number one in runs scored with 55. Number one in hits with 132. Number one in RBIs with 62. Number two in batting average at .273. Number one in on-base percentage at .324. All of those number should make Nomar Mazara […]
Don’t look now but that’s four good games in a row from Martin Perez. And it couldn’t have come at a better time for him. The Rangers are trying to figure out their playoff rotation. One and two are easy. Hamels and Darvish. Actually, three should be a lock, […]
Any time you can put yourself among names like Mickey Mantle and Reggie Jackson, you know you have done something remarkable. Oakland’s Khris Davis just crashed that party. He put himself smack dab in the middle of those two legendary Hall of Famers yesterday when he hit his tenth home run […]
Rangers fans have seen some pretty remarkable comebacks this season, and particularly in the past week. But nothing like these: On August 21, 1990, the Los Angeles Dodgers took an 11-1 lead into the eighth inning against the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies score two runs that nobody cared about […]