One more game when the Rangers get down big early. One more game when the deficit was too large to overcome, try as the offense might. One more game when the Rangers had no chance even before it started. Trouble is, the fifth starter for the Rangers has been […]
It was one of those games the Rangers have been losing a lot of lately. When they get buried early by bad pitching and shoddy defense. In the Collapse of 16, we had seen far too much of that. It was happening again. Martin Perez was on the mound […]
Sam Dyson picked up his twentieth save yesterday to move into a tie for eighth place in the American League. With it came six hundred twenty-six cases of cardiac arrest, ninety-five reported incidences of heart failure, six thousand reported arrhythmias, seven hundred fifty open heart surgeries, ninety-two triple bi-passes, over […]
How to stop bleeding, presented as a public service: Apply direct pressure on the cut or wound with a clean cloth, tissue, or piece of gauze until bleeding stops, which is usually caused by a cut, a puncture or by pitch number sixty-three in the second inning. If blood soaks […]
Every once in a while you stop caring about the Rangers. Whether they win or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose or lose does not matter in the […]
So many choices. So many questions. So much hand wringing. Do you trade him or keep him? What would you expect to get back for him? Should you keep him because he could be a future star? Should you acquire that guy because he is a star and will take […]
Greg Genske has to be smiling right about now. His plan worked. His evil devious plan worked. Greg Genske is Tanner Scheppers’s agent. And when it was announced on June 29 that Tanner Scheppers was resuming baseball operations on his way to eventually returning to the mound in a Rangers […]
September 1972: 3-23 record, a .115 winning percentage, team finished in last place. August 1973: 6-24, .200, last place. July 2014: 6-20, .231, last place. June 2003: 7-20, .259, last place. July 1976: 8-22, .267, fourth place July 2016: 4-11, .267 winning percentage, ?. How bad has it been […]
In the history of baseball, there have been some classic pitching match ups for the ages. Bob Gibson and Sandy Koufax faced off May 25, 1961, in an epic nine-inning pitching duel that the Dodgers ace won 1-0. In the loss, Gibson’s ERA dropped to 1.69. In 1963, Giants future […]
Adrian Beltre may be the face of the Rangers but Cole Hamels is the backbone. When the Rangers really need him to step up, he finds another gear. Remember the last game of the regular season last year that was set up because of the second-to-the-last game? Game 161 was […]