Well, it’s over. Finally, mercifully over. It was an 8-0 win, a meaningless final game in a season that has been meaningless since the end of May. You can pinpoint the exact day, in fact. May 21. The Rangers lost to the Phillies 5-2 on May 21 to slip under […]
It was Oakland’s day. There wasn’t anything the Rangers could do about it. They certainly didn’t try hard. Some 46,889 fans packed Oakland Dump.com to say fareware to their beloved team. It was the largest crowd ever for a major league team’s last home game in a city forever. These […]
With the Rangers season on the line, they put the ball in the hands of Gerson Garabito. He’s a career nine-year minor leaguer who has appeared in 163 games and had one save, picked up in 2021 in Triple-A Sacramento. After taking the ball in the bottom of the tenth, […]
The Rangers got offensive support from the most unlikely sources last night: from the Rangers lineup. Down 3-0 in the bottom of the fourth, after having given up two runs in the top of the inning, it appeared to be another game where the Rangers hibernating offense was going to […]
The Texas Rangers scored another run yesterday. That’s two in two days. There’s an old saying about the endless fighting in hockey, “I went to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out.” The Rangers are turning that phrase on its ear. “I tuned into a Rangers game and […]
It came. It went. Nothing happened. The Rangers pretty much sat out this year’s trade deadline. Last year, they transformed the team with Aroldis Chapman, Jordan Montgomery, and Max Scherzer. This year, they swapped a lackluster backup catcher for a better backup catcher (but still, a backup catcher) and picked […]
There are thirty teams in major league baseball. The Rangers outfield rakes twenty-ninth in offense. That should come as no surprise. Wyatt Langford and Evan Carter have pretty much occupied left field this year. Both are what could be considered rookie busts. Taveras has pretty much occupied center. He is […]
And with that, the hope for winning the division disappeared. The Rangers trip to Seattle ended in embarrassment. Being shutout was the punctuation of their ineptitude. They went into Seattle 5.5 games out and could have made a real difference in the division. Instead, all they made was a thud. […]
Benjie Molina hit for the cycle. Bartolo Colon hit a home run. Joe Neikro’s only career home run came off his brother Phil. Weird things happen in baseball. Unexplained things. Things so bizarre you nobody ever could see them coming. A guy once threw two no-hitters in a row. A […]
There is never a good time to have a bad game. Never a good time to have your first bad game of the season. But everybody has a bad day eventually. David Robinson is no different. After being a godsend to this tattered Rangers bullpen, he was due a bad […]
