There were bright spots in this mostly hazy season. Two were on display in last night’s game. Martin Perez and Nathanial Lowe. Yes, there’s the arrival, with a bang, of Josh Jung. And the baby core of Bubba Thompson and Leody Taveras showing they might have staying power. And, of […]
The Rangers have nineteen games to play. They have lost eighty-one games. Mathematically, they could lose one hundred games this season. It’s doubtful that happens. They lost Wednesday. To lose one hundred means they would have to lose twenty games in a row. They will not lose twenty games in […]
Remember when you were little and you were on a long, boring car trip because your dad wouldn’t spring for pitching, ooops, wouldn’t spring for airfare, so you piled everything and everyone into a small car and drove, and the miles and mile and miles just piled up endlessly and […]
This is yet another Rangers season that’s limping to the end, just desperately trying to finish. At least yesterday the schedule makers were nice enough to get two of them out of the way in one day. The Rangers split in Miami. Nothing unusual there. They were in it in […]
With his win yesterday, Martin Perez is now 11-6 this season. They’ve won eighteen of the twenty-eight games he’s started. Most of those ten losses have been due to lack of offense. It’s hard to imagine where this team would be without him. The Rangers won their sixtieth game of the […]
It’s starting to feel as if the Rangers are not going to make the playoffs this season. It was all riding on yesterday’s crucial game against Toronto. In a must-win game, the Rangers sent their ace to the mound. Kohei Arihara, the pride of Hiroshima, Japan, a city known for […]
Well, that didn’t take long. One at-bat. Josh Jung was barely acclimated to a major league batter’s box when he abruptly left it. He saw a major league pitch he could hit, swung at it, and took off running toward a major league career that’s filled with hope and anticipation. […]
The Josh Jung era has arrived. Rangers fans have been waiting for this day all year. Really, ever since Josh Jung was signed. And, really, before that, for as long as Jon Daniels was in charge of the franchise. In all that time Daniels struggled to produce many bona fide […]
The long national nightmare is over. Kids can sleep soundly now. Adults can raise their heads in pride. We can all go back to wearing our Texas Rangers shirts without fear of being pelted with rocks. The mighty boys from Arlington have won a game. After nine straight losses, Texas […]
After nearly four months in third, the Rangers finally slipped into fourth place. Nine straight losses have a way of causing seismic shifts like that. It may not seem like much, third versus fourth, but it’s a blow to the ego of the team. Or, it should be. Losing 1-0 […]
