It’s never easy. And it’s never clean. But the Rangers bullpen held tight again. Somehow. With a razor-thin 2-0 lead after seven brilliant innings by Jordan Montgomery, Bruce Bochy threw caution to the wind and went with his bullpen. He plucked Jose Leclerc from the top of the scrap heap […]
The Rangers are back in first place, the only way they know how. Outscoring their bullpen. They jumped to an 8-0 lead, then hung on to an 8-5 victory, leaving bases loaded, and leaving everyone in Rangers Nation with high blood pressure and missing clumps of hair. The kids won […]
So here we are. The mad dash to the finish line. Houston is a half game ahead of Seattle and Texas. Houston has nine games left. Seattle ten. Texas ten. The Astros play the Royals for three, the Mariners for three, then the Diamondbacks for three. The Mariners have three […]
Today is the last off day of the regular season for the Texas Rangers. The next ten games will determine how many off days they have beyond that. The race couldn’t be any tighter and the stakes couldn’t be any bigger. Houston leads the AL West by half a game over […]
The moon was not blue. No cows came home. Pigs are not sharing airspace with 777s. Every once in a while, though, the cosmic tumblers click just right and land on the correct combination. This is a team that cannot score late runs to win a game and cannot prevent […]
Being a Rangers fan has always been difficult. This franchise has been mostly irrelevant for its entire existence. There are six teams to have never won a World Series. The Rangers are one of them. All three American League teams to have never won it all are still in the hunt […]
This is a glimpse into the next few weeks of Rangers baseball. They need to have a lead of three or more runs heading into the eighth and ninth innings to have a possibility of winning. When they face good pitching, it’s much more difficult. They have seven huge games […]
Now it comes down to scoreboard watching, which only really matters where your team loses. The Rangers lost. With only a handful of games left and no margin for error, every loss is monumental. After winning six in a row, pulling themselves out of a monumental tailspin, including a rare […]
After as bad as they were for far too long, the Rangers re-discovered their offense, sweeping four games from Toronto in almost as dominating fashion as the Astros did to the Rangers their last trip into Arlington. 10-4, 6-3, 10-0, and last night 9-2. The swept without Scherzer. They swept […]
