The Rangers finished the week at 4-3, on a seven-game road trip that featured some really nice recoveries. A sweep of the Detroit Tigers on the heels of three frustrating losses in a row to Toronto was a welcome sign. Even more welcome was how the Rangers did it. Not […]
Here were yesterday’s winning numbers: ***** TODAY’S GAME. Martin Perez (1-2, 3.60) vs Justin Verlander (2-3, 6.49) Game time: 12:10 pm. How the Rangers hit against Verlander. How the Tigers hit against Perez.
Call the jeweler, Hamels just cut a gem. To beat a guy with an ERA of 0.55, you need a pitcher who is even better than that. And last night, Cole Hamels was. He threw seven shutout innings, seven dominating shutout innings, while the offense behind him scored three […]
It was bound to happen. The Rangers had gotten pretty remarkable starting pitching all season long. You can’t expect it to happen every game. But when it rains, it pours. And it was much more than a thunderstorm of runs that rained down on Derek Holland last night; it […]
The Rangers bullpen is like that arcade game Whac-A-Mole. You never know where the trouble is going to pop up. All you can do is try to hit it over the head before it does. Or sit back and watch the opposing batters hit balls over everyone’s heads. One […]
First it was Leonys Martin. Now Justin Smoak. This is shaping up to be the season when horrible ex-Rangers come back to haunt the team. Thank goodness Scheppers is still a Ranger (never thought those words would ever be uttered in human history). Smoak was homerless until last night’s […]
Eric Nadel called it “boneheaded.” Luckily, baseball is a team game and Delino DeShields’s teammates overcame another one of his questionable base running decisions—the second time this season DeShields’s bad baserunning has erased a run. In the end, though, it was the outfielder in right who turned the game around. […]
The Rangers have yet to win a game in May. But it’s not time to panic just yet. Simply play better defense in center field. While the Rangers defense overall has been superb this year, with a current streak of eight straight games without an error, it was a ball […]
The first month of the season is over, and the Rangers are playing their best baseball. Of course, it helps that they are playing the hapless Angels and not a team full of hap like the White Sox, but that’s how a season goes. The key to the last […]
Prince Fielder isn’t exactly tearing up the league. He’s hitting just .193, and rarely hitting the ball hard. But it’s now how you are hitting that matters. It’s when. And Fielder is making the most of the few hits he gets. He’s not a hit machine. But he’s an RBI […]