It was scorching in Cleveland yesterday, and it wasn’t just the weather. The hottest team in baseball had their ace on the mound, and he was pumping in the heat at 110.5 miles per hour. Jacob deGrom gave up a first-inning two-run homer to the Guardians, then shut them down […]
It appears that Kumar Rocker needs the training wheels. He does better when someone else pitches the first inning for him. Starting in the second inning, he pitched five, gave up two runs, struck out nine, and didn’t walk a single Marlins hitter in the Texas 4-3 win over Miami, […]
Finally. After wandering in the wilderness for the season, full of promise but oozing disappointment, Wyatt Langford is contributing. He started the season slow, hitting just .238 with one home run in the Rangers first 23 games. Then, injury kept him out the next 40 games. His return was less […]
Texas just can’t even seem to be average. Just playing .500 baseball seems too much to ask of this team. They came into Anaheim with what would have seemed like the golden opportunity, after having won two out of three against a bad Colorado team. They had the momentum of […]
The Rangers are officially in the same league as the Yankees, but the Rangers are not in the same league as the Yankees. New York ripped into Jacob deGrom. He’s the best the Rangers have. That doesn’t bode well for Nathan Eovaldi and MacKenzie Gore, the next two victims of […]
Someone needs to sue Major League Baseball for false advertising. Sacramento is billed as a hitters’ park, but the Rangers haven’t found that to be true. Or, maybe, just maybe, the Rangers aren’t a hitters’ roster. Sacramento starter J.T. Ginn tried to give the Rangers a golden opportunity in the […]
It seems to be a regular thing. The Rangers gave up yet another home run to the first batter of the game. This was on the first pitch. Shohei Ohtani took Jacob deGrom deep to put the Rangers down 1-0 before the catcher had even touched the ball. But being […]
Two noteworthy things happened last night. They may turn out to insignificant blips on the radar screen. Or they could be the start of something bigger. Josh Jung collected two hits. And Jakob Junius picked up his first save of the year. Jung has struggled since the All-Star break of […]
It was what an opening day pitching matchup should be. The Rangers ace, who put up an almost hard-to-believe 1.73 ERA last year, against the Phillies ace, who toted around a 2.50 ERA. The Rangers Nathan Eovaldi threw up two mistakes. The Phillies Cristian Sanchez was nearly unhittable. When Eovaldi […]
As the new season looms, it’s time for the annual predictions of how the divisions will end up. But what it comes down to, really, is which American League teams plays the Dodgers in the World Series. As of now, the staff at Rangers Rounding 3rd has been correct with […]
