Until the Rangers get reliable relief pitching, this is going to continue. It was unrealistic to think the Rangers could continue scoring ten runs per game. Offenses just don’t do that. And it’s unrealistic to think these relief pitchers will suddenly figure it out. That’s wishful thinking. You’re not getting […]
Jon Gray is stuck in a strange in-between. He’s pitched into some pretty bad luck, getting little run support at times. And he’s pitched poorly enough to justify the loss at times. He’s been good and not so good lately. Rangers announcers were trying to elicit sympathy for the way […]
The fact the Rangers have four starters in the All-Star Game, and six players overall on the All-Star roster, and that Dane Dunning is now 8-1 with the fourth-best ERA in the American league are connected. Other than Jung and Eovaldi, who weren’t wth the Rangers last year, what is […]
Nine years. It’s almost hard to believe. Today marks the ninth year I took over Rangers Rounding 3rd: July 4, 2014. The Rangers played a lot of really bad baseball that year. It was the official start of the Long Decline that actually began the previous year but was disguised […]
So many games turn on one at-bat. The difference between a good team and a struggling team is what that team does with that one game-deciding at-bat. For the Rangers, that at-bat was in the seventh inning. After taking a 3-0 lead over the White Sox, the Rangers gave up […]
This might be the game the Rangers needed to get their swagger back. Down 6-0 in the third, it looked like another loss and another series loss was coming. This was a team whose offense had sputtered. And when Jon Gray’s return from missing a few starts sputtered as well, […]
A win is a win. Especially one that is as badly needed as a win right now for the Rangers. They came into yesterday’s game with the Blue Jays having lost seven of nine, and in danger of losing three series in a row, which could still happen with a […]
This is what a slump looks like. You finally get enough hitting, and your pitching caves. You finally get good pitching, and your offense goes cold. You get pitching and offense, and your defense lets you down. Last night, it was b: good pitching, cold offense. Martin Perez was coming […]
Three things became glaring apparent in this four-game series with the Angels. One, the umpiring in baseball is worse than it’s ever been, even with Angel Hernandez gone. Two, the Rangers have a good team, despite losing three of four. Three, Shohei Ohtani is better than the entire Rangers team. […]
That elusive Big Hit the Rangers couldn’t find the first two games in the Angels series, they found last night. It took a while but they found it. The Rangers didn’t get their first hit until the third inning, when Leody Taveras slugged his sixth home run of the year. […]
