The Rangers were 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position last night. Fortunately the Astros were 1-for-12. Fortunately, too, the one hit the Rangers did get, from Rougned Odor, went into the second deck and scored all the runs the Rangers could get or would need. And, even more fortunately, the Astros […]
The Rangers did something they hadn’t done all season. Hit two home runs. And they won. It’s great to play small ball. But a home run can do a lot more damage than fifty-seven singles. A two-run homer in the first helps take a lot of pressure off everyone. It […]
Two. So far this year, the Rangers have two home runs at home. In six games. They are so rare we can start naming them. The Rangers are on pace to hit twenty-seven home runs in Arlington this season. Remember when the Ballpark was considered a hitter’s park? A lot of that was […]
The first two weeks of the season are in the books and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: What if nobody wins the A.L. West? Every day there is a new leader. Win two games in a row and you are running away with the division. Lose two in a […]
A game like last night’s has so many noteworthy moments and plays, with fourteen hits, with two-double performances from Delino DeShields and Mitch Moreland, with Nomar Mazara collecting three hits and a walk, with the Rangers taking advantage of some sloppy Orioles plays in the seventh, with the patience […]
Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre signed a contract extension that will keep the face of the franchise in Arlington for two more seasons after this year. There couldn’t have been better news yesterday. Then the game started. The Rangers hit their second home run last night at the Ballpark this season. […]
Mitch Moreland’s excuse me double that dropped just fair and just out of everyone’s reach set the stage for a lightning fast, come-from-behind five-run rally in the Rangers 6-3 win over Baltimore. From May 6, 1992, to July 24, 1993, Mets pitcher Anthony Young lost twenty-seven consecutive decisions. Twenty-seven […]
The Rangers came into yesterday’s game having committed just four errors. They nearly matched that in one game. Ian Desmond and Delino DeShields went back to back in the bottom of the third. Rougned Odor committed the other in the bottom of the tenth. All in all, the three errors added […]
When you win 8-0 it means pretty much everything was going your way. Especially when you get five RBIs from Adrian Beltre. Of course, Derek Holland throwing six shutout innings is just the icing on the cake. That’s now seven quality starts out of eight games for the Rangers rotation. Oh, […]
Every time you think Colby Lewis is done, he proves you wrong. Every time you think he is out of gas, he finds another gear. Every time you doubt him, he makes you eat your words. Every time you think Colby is human, he shows you he isn’t. Colby Lewis […]