The Rangers weren’t no-hit. The White Sox won a game. The baseball gods of futility were trumped last night. In Arlington, Framber Valdez had a perfect game going with one out in the sixth when a throwing error by Astros third baseman Alex Bregman ruined that, allowing Robbie Grossman to […]
If nothing else, the Rangers are making the Astros season as miserable as their own. Houston has won the AL West six of the last seven years (the only other team to win it in that time is, surprisingly, Oakland) and been to the Championship Series seven straight times. This […]
You know how in every horror movie, the monster appears to be dead but somehow, impossibly, it isn’t and it comes back for one last fight before finally being killed off for good? Well, the monster in this scenario is the Texas Rangers. They have been slayed. Their 2024 season […]
The Rangers got offensive support from the most unlikely sources last night: from the Rangers lineup. Down 3-0 in the bottom of the fourth, after having given up two runs in the top of the inning, it appeared to be another game where the Rangers hibernating offense was going to […]
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness the untimely but unavoidable end of the 2024 Rangers baseball season. The demise started with the loss of three games against the Colorado Rockies in Denver in early, and metastasized into losing eleven out of thirteen games, dropping the Rangers to […]
The Rangers have fifty-three games left to play. That’s one-third of the season. An optimist would look at their being 4.5 games out and say, they are in this thing. A realist will look at their record of 52-57 and say, until they get to .500, the only thing they […]
The Texas Rangers scored another run yesterday. That’s two in two days. There’s an old saying about the endless fighting in hockey, “I went to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out.” The Rangers are turning that phrase on its ear. “I tuned into a Rangers game and […]
It came. It went. Nothing happened. The Rangers pretty much sat out this year’s trade deadline. Last year, they transformed the team with Aroldis Chapman, Jordan Montgomery, and Max Scherzer. This year, they swapped a lackluster backup catcher for a better backup catcher (but still, a backup catcher) and picked […]
As the rock group America sang in 1975, “I’ve got a feeling today’s the day.” Today is trade deadline day. And, believe it or not, the Rangers aren’t yet dead. The deadline is 5:00 central. The Rangers are in a difficult position. Never mind they are defending World Champs (those […]
All the momentum the Rangers had built up after beating after their five-game winning streak is gone. Four of those games were gimmes. Anyone and everyone beats the White Sox. Take away Chicago and Texas is 1-5 after the break. Yes, they are officially 5-5 after the break. But they […]
