The Rangers offense has been sputtering of late. On Sunday they scored just three runs, their fewest run total since May 27. And they hadn’t enjoyed a three-run first inning since Saturday. Needless to say, Texas’s offense was due. But sometimes you need help. And in the first inning, […]
Last season, in a game against the Padres on the First of September, the Rangers were tied 4-4 in the top of the seventh. Elvis Andrus was on third. He noticed something: Padres pitcher Kevin Quackenbush wasn’t paying any attention to him. So, on the next pitch, he made […]
The last two games the Rangers are firing on all cylinders. It’s just textbook Rangers baseball. Get out to an early lead. Stay aggressive. Keep scoring. Get a quality start. Make a few base running mistakes. For the second game in a row, Rangers hitters gave Rangers pitchers a 3-0 […]
Rougned Odor comes back today. What a difference a seven-game suspension makes. When Odor left he was the second-most beloved player in Texas Rangers history, behind only Nolan Ryan. Seven games later, he may have became the second-favorite second baseman on the team. It’s no fault of Odor’s. It’s just […]
What to do? What to do? That is the talk on blogs, sports talk radio, in the stands at the Ballpark, around the water cooler, in the papers, on bar stools, and anywhere else people are talking about the Rangers. What to do with Fielder and Moreland? Both Prince Fielder […]
There’s a lot of conjecture about what happens to Jurickson Profar once Rougned Odor comes back from suspension on Saturday. When Odor comes back they have two choices with Profar. 1) Keep him and bench him. 2) Send him back to Triple-A and play him. According to T. R. Sullivan, […]
Last season, after beating the Houston Astros (of course) 6-5 at home, the Rangers moved to ten games over .500 for the first time. It was September 15. Last night, with their 7-3 win over the Cleveland Indians, the Rangers moved to ten games over .500 for the first […]
Exactly one month ago, Derek Holland got a win. Five starts later, he gets his next. But Holland didn’t pitched as badly as it might sound during that stretch. Yes, his May did start with a thud. He had a game where he gave up eleven earned runs, followed […]
Two months down, four to go. It’s a long season, but the main narrative the first eight weeks has been the continued disappearances of Prince Fielder and Mitch Moreland. In baseball, slumps are long and memories are short. Remember last year? While this year Fielder and Moreland cannot buy a […]
The Rangers got ten hits last night. Yet scored only one run. That’s because the Rangers got zero hits with runners in scoring position. They were 0-for-7 in that regard. It was a frustrating loss, 9-1 to the Pirates. They had runners on in every inning except the […]