Eight games. Eight wins. The Rangers had a very good homestand. You can’t do any better than perfect. Add the win they got in San Diego the last day of the road trip, and that’s nine in a row. It’s the Rangers’ longest winning streak since 2011. You may […]
Every once in a while, you get one of those games that seems more like someone is playing a PlayStation game, and they have it on Easy mode. The Rangers scored nine runs, but really should have had a lot more, loading the bases on two different occasions […]
When asked after the game what it meant for his team to have won seven in row and clawed its way back to .500 after such a dreadful start, Rangers manager Jeff Banister acted as if he wasn’t even aware of his team’s record, and said that that […]
The Rangers have won six games in a row. They are doing a lot of things they weren’t doing before that have helped them turn around from the dire direction they were headed in. Hitting with two strikes. Hitting after the fifth inning. Hitting with runners in scoring position. […]
What a difference a week makes. Suddenly, the offense is clicking. Suddenly, the defense has been air tight. Suddenly, the bullpen hasn’t caused nausea. A.J. Griffin started the winning streak Tuesday with a complete game shutout. Six games later the Rangers are still winning. Griffin wasn’t spectacular, but he was […]
After playing five weeks of baseball where the offense called it a night after six innings, the Rangers have come alive late in the last three games. Four runs in the ninth on Thursday night and again on Friday night turned losses into last-inning wins. So, Saturday night, the […]
There isn’t a basketball game that has ever been played, professional or college, of which anyone would ever need to watch anything but the last two minutes. Which usually lasts about 45 actual minutes. The rest of the game is not essential. Every game comes down to the final […]
It was lining up to be another 2017 Texas Rangers game. The offense was ice cold. And what little chances they had on the base paths got erased by boneheaded running. But Martin Perez kept the Rangers close in what was his finest outing of the year. Luckily, he […]
Eric Nadel, in classic Nadel style, called the play of the San Diego Padres “buffoonery.” That’s pretty much what it took for the Rangers to win last night. You aren’t going to win too many games where you go 1-for-13 with runners in scoring position. Where your cleanup hitter […]
The only way to keep the Rangers bullpen from blowing a game is to keep the Rangers bullpen from getting into a game. And the way to do that is for the starting pitcher to pitch so well even the manager cannot possibly muster up a reason to take […]
