The Rangers won Game 3 of the World Series 3-1 over the Diamondbacks in Arizona. But somehow it seems they lost. Max Scherzer left after three innings with a lower back strain. Adolis Garcia left in the eighth after pulling something in his back on a swing. And, in the […]
Max Scherzer in Game 3. When the Rangers acquired him at the trade deadline, it was for this very moment. Maybe they didn’t dream it would be at a level this high, the World Series. But they got Scherzer for big games. Yet, somehow, Max Scherzer’s start in Game 3 of […]
Last night’s World Series Game 2 was a reminder of two things. One, why Arizona is the best team in the National League. Two, the Rangers bullpen. The Rangers threw the best they have at the Diamondbacks in starter Jordan Montgomery. He threw seventy-five pitches. The Diamondbacks swung and missed […]
How long does it take to vanquish the nightmare of Game 6? How far do they have to go get the monkey off their backs that they cannot win a game when they have to come from behind in the late innings? Four hundred and eighteen feet. On the anniversary […]
And here we are. After a three-day wait the followed a twelve year wait, the Rangers are playing in the World Series again. Twelve years after one-strike away. Twelve years after “the year of Napoli.” Twelve years after Cruz didn’t catch it, the Rangers are back. The team with Ian […]
And now it comes down to Max Scherzer. The Rangers traded for Scherzer for this very reason. After deGrom was lost (probably forever) to the Rangers, and Eovaldi went down, the Rangers suddenly looked at the prospects of having a starting rotation of Dane Dunning, Jon Gray, Andrew Heaney, Martin […]
We forgot. As Rangers fans, we forgot how bad their bullpen was. We forgot that no team had ever made the playoff with a bullpen that blew more saves than it converted. We forgot that no team had finished a season any higher than two games over .500 with a […]
The Rangers blew the save in the third inning when, with one out and a runner on first and third, Marcus Semien popped out, then Corey Seager flew out, and the Rangers didn’t score. The Rangers blew the save in the sixth inning when, after scoring three runs on an […]
I am not a future Hall of Fame manager. I do not possess three World Series rings. I have not managed a baseball team higher than the t-ball level. I fully admit my place in the baseball pecking order. But I would like the answer to one question. Why did […]
