Rule 5, Home Run 1: For once the Rangers didn’t need DeShields’s speed on the basepaths. Delino DeShields hit a delino drive way over the left field wall for his first ever home run. It couldn’t have come at a better time. It tied the game at 3-3 in the […]
The Rangers come back home after a not so great road trip in which they went 2-4 against some bad teams, one of those slightly worse than the Rangers, one slightly better. Through the first five road games, the Rangers “offense” could muster no more than three runs […]
The 2015 official Texas Rangers team photo. Winston Churchill coined the term “It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Watching the 2015 Texas Rangers creates a lot of colorful language. Most of it unprintable here. The Rangers are a team that goes up and down […]
Delino DeShields makes one of the season’s best catches for the second out in the bottom of the eighth inning. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough as the Twins would go on to tie the game, then win it in the ninth. Less than five minutes after Tom Grieve and Steve Busby […]
The Rangers are about to embark on another stretch of thirteen games in thirteen days. This time, though, it’s against teams that aren’t as daunting as the Astros, Giants, Yankees and Angels. So, don’t expect them to do as well. The first three are in Minnesota, starting tonight, against the […]
I grew up watching baseball in the 70s. Specifically, I followed the Cincinnati Reds. The decade of the ‘70s was the golden era of being a Reds fan, just like 2010/2011 was the golden era of being a Rangers fan. Like the Rangers, the Reds fell on hard times once […]
Shawn Tolleson strikes out Jesus Montero with bases loaded, picking up teammate Ryan Strausborger who started the mess by dropping a Seth Smith fly ball for a two-base error to lead off the inning. Ryan Strausborger got his first major league hit yesterday. He won’t remember it. Because he […]
The Rangers record since they acquired Cole Hames: 7-2. The Rangers record in game Cole Hamels has pitched: 0-2. Conclusion: Baseball makes no sense.
I wrote this the day after the Rangers embarrassing 21-5 loss to the Yankees. I was going to post it that day, but then the news broke of the Cole Hamels trade and then the Rangers started winning and then there was so much other great stuff to talk about […]
The Rangers get the force play in the ninth to close out the inning, sweeping the Astros and moving to within only five games of first place. Back in the glory two years of this franchise, the Texas Rangers had a theme song, Merle Haggard’s “That’s The Way Baseball […]