There aren’t a whole lot of positives about yesterday’s game. The Rangers lost. The Twins, who the Rangers are supposedly battling for a wild card spot, won. And Adrian Beltre limped off the field with a pulled hamstring that will require an MRI. There aren’t rose colored glasses big […]
Now, more than ever, we need baseball. We need the drama of the Rangers scoring three runs in the tenth inning, then hanging on in a nail biting bottom of the tenth. We need Jose Leclerc to come in and give us all mini-heart attacks. We need Adrian Beltre. […]
Sixty wins. Sixty loses. Welcome back to .500, Rangers. It’s been a while. July 15, to be exact. And June 28 before that. And mid-May before that. Every Rangers ride to .500 has been on the tail of a comet. A ten-game winning streak in May against the worst […]
It was one of the largest crowds in the Ballpark this year. They went home empty handed. Their hero came up one hit shy of 3000. And their team came up four runs shy of respectability. The offense was shut out by a pitcher who came into the […]
Tyson Ross came back after being away for more than a year. Carlos Gomez came back after being away for more than a month. Mike Napoli came back after being away three weeks. The Rangers have most of their parts back. At least for one night, it paid huge […]
Coming into last night’s game, Yu Darvish had started against the Tigers six times. He was 6-0. No loses. Not even a no-decision. Even more impressive, but not his doing, is the fact that the Rangers averaged seven runs a game in his starts. So, it was pretty much […]
At first I thought, you have to feel bad if you are a Texas Rangers starting pitcher and Jeff Banister is your manager. He has so little faith in you that, no matter how well you do your job, he cannot help himself but to replace you in […]
Sam Dyson entered the game: After one out: After a walk then a double play:
As 2011 gets further and smaller in the rear view mirror, and 2017 is just a few blocks away, it’s worth assessing how far we have travelled in six years, and where we are headed. Is this Rangers team anywhere near that Rangers team? That Rangers team had this infield, […]
Spring is about proving oneself and destiny and punching tickets. Chi Chi Gonzalez proved he cannot be trusted to be a major league starting pitcher. And he punched a one-way ticket from Phoenix to Austin. Don’t look for him making the trip back north to Arlington once the season starts. […]
