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 […]
Yu Darvish returned yesterday. It was vintage Darvish. When Darvish is at his best, he is so dominating, two teams cannot score. His opponent and his own. And that happened yet again. The pitcher notorious for losing 1-0 games left Saturday’s game with nine strikeouts in 4.1 innings, three […]
Dear Texas Rangers: Please do not suck the second half of the season, Thanks. A fan. ***** TODAY’S GAME: Yu Darvish (2-0, 2.87) vs. Jason Hammel (7-5 , 3.46) Game time: 1:20 pm How the Rangers hit against Hammel. How the Cubs hit against Darvish.
Let’s forget that those last twelve games happened. Let’s say it was just the Rangers being magnanimous and allowing their lesser division mates the chance to dream the big dream that they will then crush in September. Let’s bid farewell to that horrible string of pitching that has brought to question […]
Since 1995, thirty-eight teams have had a lead at the All-Star break of at least five games. How many of those thirty-eight teams went on to win their division? Three. No, sorry, I read that wrong. Thirty-five. Thirty-five of the thirty-eight teams that have been in the position the […]
The Rangers now have home field advantage in the World Series. That was the easy part. The hard part will be getting there. Not that I don’t think the Rangers have the team to do it. It’s just that, right now the Rangers don’t have the team to do […]
At the beginning of the season, many of the RR3 faithful made predictions on the upcoming season. I tried to capture as many of those as I could. (If I missed yours, I am sorry). Some of us even predicted the Rangers would win the World Series. Here they are, in […]
I was going to write about Sunday’s game, but it is 6 am on Monday morning and the MLB statisticians in New York haven’t finished counting Minnesota’s runs and hits, so that recap will have to wait until Wednesday, at their earliest prediction. They are flying in a team from MIT […]
You know how it’s Christmas Eve and it just occurs to you that you still haven’t bought a gift for your wife so you dash off to the twenty-four hour drug store at the corner and walk up and down the aisles desperately looking for something, and to your horror […]
There is this notion going around on local media that the Rangers are gassed and desperately need the All-Star Break to get some much needed rest and rejuvenation, and that is why they have hit a wall lately and are only 3-7 in their last ten games. The only thing […]