The Rangers get the force play in the ninth to close out the inning, sweeping the Astros and moving to within only five games of first place. Back in the glory two years of this franchise, the Texas Rangers had a theme song, Merle Haggard’s “That’s The Way Baseball […]
Shawn Tolleson puts the first two runners on in the ninth, then goes to work preventing the Astros from scoring, striking out batting champion Jose Altuve to end the game and preserve the win. What a difference a week makes. A week ago, the Rangers hit their lowest point in […]
“This ball is history” in more ways than one last night when Adrian Beltre homered to become only the fourth player in history to have hit for the cycle three times in his career. Every team plays 162 games a season. 50 series. As the ebbs and flows of the […]
Martin Perez had one of the most remarkable pitching performances of the year yesterday, and it almost went up in smoke when his manager pulled him with one out in the ninth inning for a litany of lesser Rangers bullpen pitchers who valiantly tried to give his win away. I would like to apologize […]
I will let Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports write this one today. Well, most of this one. Below is his re-cap of how the five AL West teams did at the trade deadline. Before I get to that, though, I heard a great quote today from Casey Stern on MLB […]
The Rangers celebrate after coming from behind to beat the Yankees on reserve outfielder Josh Hamilton’s RBI single in the bottom of the ninth. Don’t look now, but the Rangers are 2-0 since the trade to acquire Cole Hamels was announced. While most experts do not expect the Rangers […]
In case you were living under a rock the past twelve hours, or just returned from the Pluto probe mission, you know the Rangers finally consummated their six-months-in-the-making trade to acquire Cole Hamels from the Phillies. In fact, getting to Pluto and back didn’t take as long as the Rangers […]
In the first inning of last night’s game, the Rangers jumped all over Yankees starter Chris Capuano for five runs. Then my internet went out. I wasn’t able to see what happened after that.
Leonys Martin was All-Star-calibre last night, as usual. He went over the wall in the second inning to rob Mark Teixeira of a home run by actually scaling the outfield wall in center, catching the ball while standing with one foot on the edge of the wall […]