Happy Fourth of July. Today marks my seventh year of running Rangers Rounding 3rd. It’s been wonderful in here. It’s been mostly bad baseball out there in The Ballpark and then The Shed. It’s so much more enjoyable to write about the Rangers when they are good and winning, like […]
The Rangers lost a winnable game. Both teams tried to give it away with walks and errors. But in the end, Seattle was the last team standing. The story, though, was that Kyle Gibson had another dominating start. He was the victim of the pitch count and fell one out […]
An optimist looks at this season as thank goodness it’s half over. A pessimist looks at this season as there’s still another half left to play. Any way you look at the 2021 Rangers season, it’s mostly forgettable. But, as of yesterday’s game, the Rangers reached the halfway point. Eighty-one […]
Mississippi State won the College World Series last night. It was the university’s first championship in any sport. That makes them a team with one more championship than the Rangers. But what’s most important about their victory is that the losing pitcher was Kumar Rocker. He, along with teammate Jack […]
Five home runs in three games. Nine runs batted in. Joey Gallo is locked in. It’s great to see. When that happens, the Rangers win. On the road. In Oakland. The fact that this awakening has happened at the same time umpires are finally enforcing the no sticky stuff on […]
What’s frustrating is the few times this team displays dominance, you wonder why they can’t do that more often. For three games, this team did everything right. Great starting pitching, hitting for average and power, clutch hitting, smart baserunning, solid defense, shut-down bullpen. If only you could capture that in […]
Very few pitchers have been bold enough to actually pitch to Joey Gallo. That’s why he leads baseball in walks. The Joey Gallo of old would have swung wildly at most of those pitches outside the strike zone. But since he is no longer swinging like a broken gate, pitchers […]
D wins games. Defense. And Dane Dunning. This is the Dane Dunning we were sold. Not the one who can’t get out of the first inning without giving up four or five runs. But the one who can actually make it through all five innings (which is a complete game […]
Despite a decade of mostly losing and forgettable baseball, there have been a few bright moments in recent Rangers history. One is Adrian Beltre. He was so good he almost single-handedly carried the Rangers to their only two playoff appearances in the last ten years. Without Beltre, the past decade […]
Back in 1972, Roger Kahn wrote a famous book called “The Boys of Summer” about the old Brooklyn Dodgers. Twelve years later, Don Henley released a top-ten song also called “The Boys of Summer.” One day they will be writing books and singing songs of praise about the 2021 Texas […]
