One of the two starters in the Rangers rotation named Martin Perez gets the start tonight. Which one it is will remain to be seen. Hopefully it will be the Martin Perez who has won six decisions in a row, with a 3.15 ERA, averaging seven innings per start, […]
The Rangers had a really great shot at a rare four-game winning streak. What they ended up with was a doubleheaders split. They also ended up leapfrogging over three teams in wild card race that nobody seems to want to win. So here is the deal: They have twenty-three […]
The old fashioned double header. I miss those days when it was actually scheduled, when you could go to the ballpark knowing you had five hours of baseball ahead of you. Now you get five hours of baseball in a typical 1-0 Rangers-Padres game, with twenty pitching changes and […]
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 […]
