The night after the Mavericks season ended, the Rangers season ended. It was a sad, somber affair. The Rangers offense finally came alive, piling up an unheard of six runs in the first five innings, taking a 6-2 lead. But, in a season where nothing goes right, nothing went right. […]
Fourteen runs. Twenty-two hits. That’s a week’s worth of offense for the Rangers. They gave it up to the Mets in just nine innings. And all of the sudden, the unthinkable is happening. All season long, the offense has been missing but the starting pitching has carried the team. Rangers […]
The most deflating “victories” are the moral victories, like when the Rangers announcers were trying to find rays of hope in yet another Rangers anemic loss, they pointed out: “The Rangers almost pulled it out in the ninth.” “Well, they did have the go-ahead run on base.” “The offense proved […]
Until the Rangers trade for a hitter, and until Josh Jung returns, this is the fate of the Rangers. A team that cannot hit consistently enough to win. Once again, the rotation gave them a chance to win it. Heaney allowed just three runs. The Rangers offense just isn’t good […]
Last night’s 3-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers may have been the most satisfying victory of the season for the Rangers. After being thrashed 15-2 in the series opener on Tuesday, Texas pulled off a cliffhanger 3-2 win with the tying run thrown out at home to end the […]
Thank the baseball gods that Corey Seager is back. Without him, the Rangers are hopeless. With him, they have a fighting chance. The Rangers got the first two on in second—Semien and Seager—and the non-Seagers couldn’t drive them in. The Rangers got a runner to second in the second inning. […]
Taken to the woodshed. Read the riot act. Raked over the coals. Thrashed. Torn a new one. Had the sh** kicked out of them. Whipped, trounced, mauled, whipped, drubbed, routed. There are a lot of ways to describe how the Texas Rangers kicked off this most important west coast road […]
The good news is, the Rangers finally scored more than two runs in a game on Sunday. The bad news is, the easy part of the schedule is over. The Rangers have three in LA against the Dodgers then three in Seattle, come home for three against the Mets, then […]
Writing a daily Rangers blog here at RangersRounding3rd has been a labor of love (mostly) these last ten years. I took over this blog from Twig in the middle of 2014, which was a miserable year to be a Rangers fan. Texas finished in last, lost 95 games, and lost […]
Does anyone remember Jake Smolinski? Or, more to the point, does anyone remember Jake Smolinski’s 2014 call up with the Rangers? Smolinksi was an outfielder in the Rangers system in 2014 when he was called up toward the end of the 2014 season. This was the season the Rangers would […]
