For one glorious game, the World Champion 2023 Texas Rangers showed up in 2024. Finally, after 121 games. The Rangers offensive struggles can really be traced to one source. Adolis Garcia. While the entire lineup contributed to the World Series championship, Garcia put the Rangers on his shoulders and delivered […]
Baseball is the most unpredictable of sports. If you don’t believe that, explain Jose Leclerc. He started 2023 as the Rangers closer but quickly lost that job. The Rangers bullpen was historically bad. It was a blown save just waiting to be called in from the bullpen. And Leclerc was […]
This is how a bad team works. The Rangers offense has been missing all year. They finally break out, scoring seven runs against the New York Yankees. But the Yankees scored eight runs because the Rangers have had the worst pitching ERA since the All-Star break. Human decency prevents us […]
Thank you, Yankees manager Aaron Boone, for being able to count. Thank you for counting to ninety. Thank you for taking out a surefire Hall-of-Fame pitcher and perennial Cy Young candidate when he was dominating because he hit ninety pitches. Thank you for giving the Rangers a chance to salvage […]
At one point, Jonathan Hernandez was the Rangers closer of the future. He signed with the Rangers in 2013 as an international free agent out of the Dominican Republic, even though he was born in Memphis, Tennessee. The son of former major league pitcher Fernando Hernandez, the righty made his […]
While this Rangers season is over except for the forty-seven more games they have left to play, there is cause for optimism. If you look on the internet, a lot of Rangers fans are still holding onto the delusion that this team can make the playoffs. That’s comforting. It’s one-hundred […]
The Rangers weren’t no-hit. The White Sox won a game. The baseball gods of futility were trumped last night. In Arlington, Framber Valdez had a perfect game going with one out in the sixth when a throwing error by Astros third baseman Alex Bregman ruined that, allowing Robbie Grossman to […]
If nothing else, the Rangers are making the Astros season as miserable as their own. Houston has won the AL West six of the last seven years (the only other team to win it in that time is, surprisingly, Oakland) and been to the Championship Series seven straight times. This […]
You know how in every horror movie, the monster appears to be dead but somehow, impossibly, it isn’t and it comes back for one last fight before finally being killed off for good? Well, the monster in this scenario is the Texas Rangers. They have been slayed. Their 2024 season […]
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness the untimely but unavoidable end of the 2024 Rangers baseball season. The demise started with the loss of three games against the Colorado Rockies in Denver in early, and metastasized into losing eleven out of thirteen games, dropping the Rangers to […]
