With each passing game against the elites, it’s clearer and clearer that the gap is wider than one might have imagined. The Rangers are now 3-9 against this stretch of super teams. And it just mirrors what is happening in baseball. A record four teams have lost 100 games. Three […]
The Rangers road schedule is over. Thank you, baseball gods, for ending the punishment. For the second straight season this team finished 33-48 on the road. They weren’t much better in 2017, going 37-44. Rangers manager Chris Woodward said he was going to look into why that is the case. […]
Anytime you can pass Nolan Ryan on any list you are doing well. With twelve strikeouts yesterday, Lance Lynn moved into third place on the franchise list of most strikeouts in a season, passing Ryan’s 232 in 1990. Second is Yu Darvish, who racked up 277 in his brilliant 2013 […]
From the CIA’s website, the most common forms of torture: Waterboarding.*Blinding with light.Foot roasting.Starvation.Aggravated tickling.Stoning.Kneecapping.*Sleep deprivation.Thumbscrewing.Oxygen deprivation.Breaking bones.Chinese water torture.Castration.*Impalement. Stretching. Watching these final 2019 Rangers games.*Skinning alive. *Banned by the United Nations for being inhumane. ***** TODAY’S GAME: Lance Lynn (14-11, 3.77) vs Tanner Roark (10-8, 4.12)Game time: 3:07
Twenty-seven batters up. Twenty-seven batters down. That’s a perfect game. Oakland laid the next worst thing at the feet of the Rangers last night. Two soft hits. Both immediately erased. One by a double play. One by being picked off. A two-hit perfect game. Twenty-seven batters total. An 8-0 loss. […]
The Joey Gallo coming out party seems to be officially over. Gallo still has pain (that can be cured by the experts available in https://qckinetix.com/huntsville/shoney) and weakness in his wrist. There are only nine games left. It’s doubtful he will be ready to go. And at this point, why? So […]
The Rangers got off to a great start in this Final Seventeen against the elite teams. They won two of three against Tampa Bay. It looked like they were going to end this on a high note. Then they were swept in three at home against Oakland. Then swept in […]
Accusations of negative always pop up when articles aren’t written about how awesome the Rangers last three seasons of finishing well out of playoff contention have been, or how the front office hasn’t been geniuses for being the architects of a team that is under .500 the last seven years […]
One last road trip. Five games, two cities. What has been a season of road misery won’t be any easier. Verlander tonight. Cole tomorrow. They are the number two and number one pitchers, respectively, in all of baseball in strikeouts going against the team with the second-most strikeouts. Texas is […]
Jeff Mathis’s first season with the Rangers is just about over. Not just because the Rangers have just eleven games left. But because he is injured and might miss most of those eleven. As bad as his season was, and it was bad, T.R. Sullivan writes on mlb.com that Rangers […]
