The Rangers have yet to win a game in May. But it’s not time to panic just yet. Simply play better defense in center field. While the Rangers defense overall has been superb this year, with a current streak of eight straight games without an error, it was a ball […]
Prince Fielder isn’t exactly tearing up the league. He’s hitting just .193, and rarely hitting the ball hard. But it’s now how you are hitting that matters. It’s when. And Fielder is making the most of the few hits he gets. He’s not a hit machine. But he’s an RBI […]
THINGS I GOT RIGHT: A.J. Griffin would be the steal of the off-season. A. J. Griffin will be the number-three starter on the team. The Ian Desmond signing was really smart. No matter who the Rangers got for Leonys Martin, the Rangers got the better end of the deal. Tom […]
During yesterday’s pre-game radio show, Texas manager Jeff Banister was talking about shortstop Elvis Andrus, specifically about the surprising year he is having so far offensively. What he said was, Elvis is doing well because he is batting far down in the order. He isn’t expected to contribute so […]
It was bound to happen. The offense was bound to explode. And it couldn’t have happened against a better team. Any time the Rangers win, it’s sweet. When they win against the Yankees, it’s like nectar of the gods. The scoring started, as it almost always does, with Nomar […]
Question: When you heard Cesar Ramos was going to pitch in place of Cole Hamels, what is the first thing you thought? (Right after, of course, Who the heck is Cesar Ramos?) That the Rangers would probably lose. That happened. So no need to dwell on it. But Ramos pitched better […]
Yesterday’s game wasn’t worth recapping for fear you’d have to recall it. So to save us all from having to remember it, here is a cat video to watch instead. I promise this will be infinitely more enjoyable. And to Nick Martinez, who threw twenty of twenty-two pitches out of […]
It was forty degrees last night in Chicago. Too cold for humans and baseball. The Rangers bats froze. Worse, the Rangers brains froze. Delino DeShields led off the game with a walk. He was promptly picked off. It was going to be one of those games. It was a close, tight […]
Last year’s National League Cy Young award winner threw a no-hitter last night against Cincinnati. Last year’s American League Cy Young award winner threw a thirteen-hitter last night against Texas, allowing a three-game sweep over the cross-state rival Houston Astros 7-4. Since the Astros moved to the American League […]
The Rangers were 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position last night. Fortunately the Astros were 1-for-12. Fortunately, too, the one hit the Rangers did get, from Rougned Odor, went into the second deck and scored all the runs the Rangers could get or would need. And, even more fortunately, the Astros […]