Hard to believe that the All-Star break is here already. It seemed like just yesterday that Sam Dyson was blowing two games against Cleveland to open the season and set the tone for the Rangers 2017. A win yesterday would have been a sweep of the Angels, would have […]
For the fourth time this season, the Rangers have won at least three games in a row. They won four in a row, sweeping the Royals, to pull within a game of .500 in late April. Ten in a row to go from seven under to three over in […]
I don’t have enough superlatives for last night’s game. Literally. After seeing how the Rangers have been playing this year, I cut corners and didn’t order my normal full batch. I used what little ones I had left on Wednesday’s game. Who thought I would be needing more so […]
The mad dash to the trade deadline is on. With a brief intermission on Monday for the All-Star break. The Rangers have three games against the second-place Angels. Which is good. Because in games against the three teams currently in first place the Rangers are 5-18. In games against […]
It was a really good night for the Rangers. Their trade chips increased in value. Jurickson Profar, playing for Elvis who’s on paternity leave, showed the ability to hit left-handed pitching, battling for a twelve-pitch ground out in his first at-bat, laying down a perfect sac bunt in his […]
This team is basically a three-legged stool with two of the legs broken at any given time. Their rotation has some quality arms but not enough and not they cannot be consistently relied upon. Their offense is potent but sputters because it has far too many strikeouts holes to make it reliable. The […]
Watching the Rangers bullpen collapse night after night after night after night reminds me of that depressing movie, “Leaving Las Vegas,” where Nicolas Cage’s character drinks himself to death. No matter what you do to try to stop him, he won’t. And even when you think maybe, just maybe, […]
Yesterday’s game was a microcosm of the entire Rangers season. The starting pitching wasn’t quite good enough, far too many walks, too inefficient with the pitch count, removed early. The bullpen is overtaxed and underwhelming and, ultimately, gave up the win. Every inning this bullpen throws is skirting disaster. Expecting […]
40-41. The Rangers reached the half-way point in the season one game under .500. The season is really a tale of the games that got away from them. And strike zones a mile wide. Yesterday’s game looked like it was going to be another late game meltdown. Cole Hamels, in […]
It does no good right now stating the obvious, which is: if you don’t have a bullpen you can rely on, quit relying on it. It’s too obvious to expect starters to go longer into games. It’s too easy of a solution to push starters to seven and—gasp!—even eight […]
