Jon Gray faced fifteen batters yesterday. Seven batters too many. He gave up an unearned run in the first. From that point on, he let the Guardians earn them. He gave them a single, a walk, a double, and a single in the second for three runs. Then a walk, […]
Nathan Eovaldi has been a free-agent signings that worked. Quite often teams throw big money at pitchers and they don’t work out. Jacob deGrom is a prime example. Look at the Diamondbacks signing of Jordan Montgomery. He has pitched so poorly for them, he has recently been demoted to the […]
It’s one thing for a team to miss the playoffs the season after winning the World Series. It’s quite another for a team to bomb as monumentally as the Rangers have this year. So, now the task is rebuilding to championship quality, or at least playoff caliber. It’s time to […]
Finally, twenty-two innings later, the Rangers scored a run. Corey Seager’s three-run homer on Monday in Game 1 of this three-game series against the Pirates came in the third inning. The Rangers didn’t score the rest of that game. Didn’t score at all in Game 2 on Tuesday. And didn’t […]
Shut out by the Pirates. Shut out by a starting pitcher who, in his last two starts gave up fifteen earned runs in nine total innings. And not just shut out, shut down. Only three hits. Three singles. Not even a walk. Not even a runner to second base. This […]
The Rangers too little too late portion of the season continues, as they got their second straight win, this one against the Pirates. Really, it was Corey Seager who got this win. His two home runs accounted for all four of Texas’s runs, as they hung on to beat Pittsburgh […]
Every so often, this team has flashes of— Well, it’s not flashes of hope because hope would suggest a possible positive outcome. Every so often, this team has flashes of— Well, it’s not flashes of hope because hope would suggest a possible positive outcome. And it’s not flashes of greatness […]
At this point, you just expect the Rangers to lose. The players seem to be playing that way as well. “Let’s get through these nine innings and get this season over with.” This team is in a tailspin that even three upcoming games against the White Sox at the end […]
The outcome of this game was hinted at with the very first batter of the game. Rangers starter Andrew Heaney got ahead 1-2 on the Twins Manuel Margot and tried to find the out pitch to put him away. And tried and tried and tried. He fouled off pitch after […]
The 2023 Rangers didn’t stay long. Just a quick pop in to say hello for a few innings in Boston, then they were on their way. That left the 2024 Rangers to deal with the Twins at home. And the results were pretty much as expected. Two first-inning runs is […]
