This is yet another Rangers season that’s limping to the end, just desperately trying to finish. At least yesterday the schedule makers were nice enough to get two of them out of the way in one day. The Rangers split in Miami. Nothing unusual there. They were in it in […]
With his win yesterday, Martin Perez is now 11-6 this season. They’ve won eighteen of the twenty-eight games he’s started. Most of those ten losses have been due to lack of offense. It’s hard to imagine where this team would be without him. The Rangers won their sixtieth game of the […]
It’s starting to feel as if the Rangers are not going to make the playoffs this season. It was all riding on yesterday’s crucial game against Toronto. In a must-win game, the Rangers sent their ace to the mound. Kohei Arihara, the pride of Hiroshima, Japan, a city known for […]
Well, that didn’t take long. One at-bat. Josh Jung was barely acclimated to a major league batter’s box when he abruptly left it. He saw a major league pitch he could hit, swung at it, and took off running toward a major league career that’s filled with hope and anticipation. […]
The Josh Jung era has arrived. Rangers fans have been waiting for this day all year. Really, ever since Josh Jung was signed. And, really, before that, for as long as Jon Daniels was in charge of the franchise. In all that time Daniels struggled to produce many bona fide […]
For some odd reason, with two out and two on in the bottom of the tenth inning, Tony Beasley chose to intentionally walk Yordan Alvarez to load the bases. At the time, even Rangers’ announcer Dave Raymond said that was an odd thing to do. If you have the head […]
The long national nightmare is over. Kids can sleep soundly now. Adults can raise their heads in pride. We can all go back to wearing our Texas Rangers shirts without fear of being pelted with rocks. The mighty boys from Arlington have won a game. After nine straight losses, Texas […]
After nearly four months in third, the Rangers finally slipped into fourth place. Nine straight losses have a way of causing seismic shifts like that. It may not seem like much, third versus fourth, but it’s a blow to the ego of the team. Or, it should be. Losing 1-0 […]
It seems the long darkness of the off-season arrived early. The Rangers have now lost eight in a row. It’s an insult to suggest professional athletes have given up. That’s not what this is about. It’s just that the small goals this team might have had have once and for […]
What do you do when you have a bad bullpen? You don’t win. You don’t hold onto leads. And you don’t give them more chances than they deserve to pitch in games. Yet, the Rangers decided to have a bullpen game yesterday. If there was ever a gesture saying, “we’ve […]
