The quarter mark of the season is over. Baseball wisdom says you don’t really know what kind of team you have until you’ve played forty games. The Rangers have played forty games. What they have is the opposite of the team they thought they had. They have a team that’s […]
After losing three of four to Houston, Texas has reached the quarter mark of the season at 18-22. That’s good for third place in the A.L. West. After finishing last the past two seasons, it’s an improvement. But, as of now, they have gone from a horrible team to a […]
The disappearing offense stayed disappeared. The Rangers have scored a total of five runs in the first three games of their series in Houston. Thank goodness for the Martin Perez shutout in Game 2. You don’t have to score too many runs when the other team doesn’t score any. The […]
Ugly numbers kept piling up. Lots of ugly numbers. Perhaps the ugliest number is 45. As in, I-45, the road to Houston. Lately, that has been the road to nowhere for the Texas Rangers. One run is all they could manage. That came in the first inning. They suffered through […]
Did that just happen? Did Marcus Semien really get a hit? Wait, did he really get three hits? Wait, did he really get an extra base hit? Really? Does Jonah Heim really own Shohei Ohtani? Did he really get three hits off last year’s MVP and face of baseball? Is […]
Pitching duels make for dramatic baseball. You’re on pins and needles with every pitch. You’re one leaky fastball away from disaster. One stealthy fastball away from euphoria. That’s heart stopping, nail-biting baseball. That’s drama. But sometimes, don’t you just need a good comedy? Because baseball is at its most fun […]
There have been times recently where it seems the Rangers can’t score six runs in a week. Yesterday, they did it in one inning. In the bottom of the first. After giving the Angels three runs in the top of the inning. Single. Walk. Single. Double. Sac fly. Error. The […]
Adolis Garcia is an RBI machine. He doesn’t hit for average but he hits when he needs to. More accurately, he hits when the Rangers need him to. His five RBIs yesterday give him twenty-three for the season, the most of any Ranger. His ninety RBIs last year led the […]
Any time somebody starts to get remotely close to a record, people begin paying attention. If a pitcher has a no-hitter going in the fifth inning, the broadcasters start to bring it up. MLB.com puts a red No-Hitter alert banner across the score of that game. If a hitter is […]
For the first time this season, Taylor Hearn didn’t give up a run. In his previous five starts, he had given up one, two, three, four, and five runs. So, if the pattern were to continue, he would have given up six. Or zero. He went with zero. Five innings, […]
