There are only so many 1-0 shutouts a team can throw. According to Evan Grant, the Rangers have scored exactly one run per game now eleven times. No other team in baseball can boast that. Well, not exactly boast. Hide in shame might be the better way to say it. […]
This is what makes baseball so great. It’s totally unpredictable. Nobody in the entire free world—no man, woman or child—could have ever predicted Kyle Gibson would pitch a complete game shutout. In 202 previous starts, he had never pitched a shutout. He’d had only two complete games. He came into […]
With last night’s 4-1 loss to Houston, the Rangers fell to 4-18 on the road. The future is going to be lined with losing. And it’s not just that the next eight games are on the road. It’s that, yesterday, Jon Daniels laid out the road map for 2021. It’s a […]
The crowded Rangers roster gets even more crowded today as Willie Calhoun returns, fresh off the I.L., after missing about a month with a pulled hamstring. This has been a forgettable season for Calhoun in what should have been quite the opposite. After numerous stalled attempts to make the team […]
Eventually, this pandemic will go away and fans will be allowed to go to baseball games and the few Rangers fans left will get to see a game in person. Over the weekend I took a tour of The Shed. Here are some photos I took. *****NO GAME TODAY.
This season long ago ceased being about wins. That happened when this team ceased winning. So now it’s about opportunities. And moments. The Rangers had two of those waited-a-lifetime-for-this moments yesterday, in Game 2 of their doubleheader with the Athletics. In the sixth inning, twenty-two-year-old Rangers rookie Sam Huff, the […]
This turning of the guard took one more step yesterday with Sam Huff, one of the Rangers top prospects, making his major league debut. Right now, on the current Rangers roster, there are nine players who made their major league debuts in 2020, four of which never played above A-Level. […]
The Rangers are in a dogfight. They are battling for worst record in baseball. For that, they get the first pick in the draft. While drafting is a crap shoot, the first overall pick has managed to produce some gems. Back in 2014, the Rangers were also in the same position. […]
Something weird happened in baseball last night. It must have been a full moon or something. The Milwaukee Brewers scored 19 runs. The Atlanta Braves scored 29. And the Texas Rangers scored seven. Offense was breaking out all over. The Rangers hadn’t won back-to-back games since August 14 and 15. They […]
Maybe Elvis Andrus isn’t ready to ride into the sunset after all. He will go out fighting, at least. Since the talk of him losing his job surfaced, and his playing time diminished, he found the power button and has found a way to make an impact in a few […]
