So now that the playoffs are set, I will boldly predict the outcome. I can guarantee with 100 percent certainty that I will be totally wrong. This is not who I want to win, this is who I think will win. American League: Yankees vs Indians: Yankees. Astros vs Red […]
Last season the Arizona Diamondbacks went 69-93. The Minnesota Twins went 59-103. The Colorado Rockies went 75-87. All three teams had worse records in 2016 than the Rangers had in 2017. All three made the post-season as wild cards. Those three franchises did a lot right over the off-season last […]
The post-season gets underway today with the American League wild card game, at 8:00 on ESPN. The Twins take on the Yankees, their playoff kryptonite. In a scenario reminiscent of the Rangers earlier playoff struggles, Minnesota cannot get past New York, having lost five straight Division Series, four to the […]
This frustrating season was put to bed the same way it awoke. With a whimper. The season that started with a sweep at the hands of the American League-best Cleveland Indians ended with the Rangers losing fourteen of its final twenty-one games. Every time it looked like the Rangers […]
It’s the final day of the 2017 regular season. Today, every game starts at the same time. It’s an idea the league concocted a couple years ago to heighten the drama of the pennant races. The theory was, nobody could back into anything. Used to be, if your team […]
Better late than never as the saying goes. When Rangers closer Alex Claudio enduced Marcus Semien to ground into a force play at second to end the game, the dream was fulfilled. Fourth place! Sure it took all of 160 games into the season to do it. But who […]
After their seventh loss in a row, the Rangers magic number still stands at one. One more win or one Oakland loss and the Rangers clinch a fourth-place finish and avoid finishing in last for the second time in the past four years. Or, to put it another way, […]
I got an email from the Rangers. To show their gratitude to season ticket holders (and partial, like I am), they are giving us two tickets to Sunday’s game as part of Fan Appreciation Day. After seeing how lackluster the Rangers have played the past six games, especially […]
The official paperwork arrived last night around 9:35, when the Minnesota Twins defeated the Cleveland Indians. But that was a mere formality. The Rangers were eliminated from the post season long before last night. Long before they laid a huge egg in front of their “home” crowd in an […]
The Rangers have lost a lot of different ways this season—bad bullpen or bad offense being the chief culprits—but their defense has been pretty good. Especially considering Elvis Andrus and Rougned Odor came into 2017 with a reputation for having gloves of lead. And even though Odor is, this […]