The Texas Rangers won fifty-two games in the first half of the season. In all those games, with all that offense they generated, how many games did they win when trailing after six innings? Had to be about ten, right? Six innings is just two-thirds of a game. Certainly, they […]
Being 2-0 out of the break isn’t the big news. The Astros crashing and burning by giving up three in the bottom of the night and then committing a horrible throwing error to let the Angels win it in the bottom of the tenth isn’t the big news. It’s what […]
Admit it. After the third inning, once Jon Gray gave up two, two-run homers, and the Rangers had already stranded two runners on at first with one out and a leadoff double in the third, you were thinking, here we go again. It was only natural. You do not have […]
This is always a critical moment for a team. Coming out of the All-Star break, there’s always a team that struggles. There’s always a team that takes off. If they struggle, it’s blamed on too much rest for the players who didn’t play in the All-Sar Game, too little rest […]
The All-Star Game isn’t what it used to be. That might sound like the Get Off My Lawn rantings of guy screaming at clouds, but it’s true. It used to be a game. Now it’s a TV show. Now it’s content. It’s network programming. Sure, it’s still the best all-star […]
When Nathan Eovaldi took the mound in the second inning of yesterday’s All-Star Game in Seattle, there were six Texas Rangers on the field. That hadn’t happened since the 1951All-Star Game when six Brooklyn Dodgers were on the field at once. Back then, though, there were only eight teams in […]
The Rangers play the National League tonight. Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, Jonah Heim, Adolis Garcia, and Josh Jung are all starting tonight’s All-Star game in Seattle. That’s a testament to three things. One, their talents and the remarkable seasons each player is having. Two, how good the Rangers are, despite […]
Three years ago, Wyatt Langford entered the major league baseball draft as a high school senior. No team drafted him. A native of Trenten, Florida, Langford decided to go college near his home. He chose the University of Florida. His freshman year, 2021, at Florida, he played in four games. […]
On June 6, the Texas Rangers beat the St Louis Cardinals to go twenty games over .500. Since then, they have won 12 and lost 18. In that stretch, Rangers starters have been spotty other than Eovalid and Dunning. Heaney, Perez, and Bradford have won just one each. Jon Gray […]
In the Nobody Really Knows Anything About Anything But Often Just Get Lucky category, there’s the case of Adolis Garcia. In December of 2019, the then twenty-five-year-old outfielder from Cuba was DFA’d by the Cardinals after 25 games in 2018. The Rangers picked him up for $100,000. Or, Jacob deGrom’s bandage […]
