Now is when Bruce Bochy needs to reach into his Hall of Fame managerial experience and guide this team through adversity. How the Rangers navigate the loss of Corey Seager is going to go a long way to determining what this team is made of. Last night’s game was not […]
What a game. It matches the drama and improbability of opening day when the Rangers fell behind 5-0 to the Phillies, with their ace Aaron Nola holding the Rangers hitless. Then they exploded for nine runs and stunned the Phillies. The Rangers had a lead, lost a lead, had a […]
Two-point-two innings. Seven earned runs. Five innings. Zero earned runs. And a franchise-record-setting night. Andrew Heaney’s second start was light years ahead of his first start. Yes, his first start was against a rejuvenated Baltimore team and his second was against a surrendering Kansas City team. That certainly helps. But […]
It seems Bubba Thompson had something to prove. Nine games into the season he finally got his first start. In a getaway Sunday game in Wrigley in a game the Rangers really needed to win to avoid a sweep, and to avoid going under .500. Dipping under .500 at this […]
There isn’t a more appropriate day than Easter to ask when the Rangers bats are going to be resurrected. No matter how good the pitching has been, and it’s been good enough to win most games, you can’t win scoring two runs per game, which is the Rangers average since […]
Should it worry anyone that seven games into the season the Rangers have been shut out twice? They were shut out three times all of last year. In 2021 they were shut out three times in their first ten games. They lost 102 games that year. After coming hot out […]
Six games into the season, Josh Jung is starting to make a difference. He made a barehand play to throw out a runner at first early in the game. He drove in the Rangers second run with a single in the first to put the Rangers up 2-0. Then, when […]
Did the Rangers keep the receipt? The first time around, this new pitching the Rangers bought hasn’t exactly been what it the catalog promised. Jacob deGrom’s ERA is 12.27. Nathan Eovaldi’s ERA is 5.40. And, after last night’s 7-2 loss to Baltimore, Andrew Heaney’s ERA (please, for their safety, remove […]
There’s a reason the Rangers plunked down all those millions of dollars on pitching. (And a reason the Rangers haven’t had a winning season in so long.) Pitching wins games. The Rangers ran into some great Baltimore pitching last night, sneaking in one lousy single in an entire nine innings […]
“Oh no.” ESPN had Phillies shortstop Trea Turner mic’ed in the second inning when he responded to a Josh Jung fly ball deep to right that cleared the fence for a home run. Oh no was right if you were a Phillies fan this weekend. They got pounded by the […]
