The remedial part of the schedule is behind the Rangers. They could have played to their competition but instead they are six games over .500 in the first half of the season. After losing 95 games last season, they were the surprise team in baseball in the first half. Here […]
Last night we watched the best players at each position in the American League square off against the best players at each position in the National League. The Rangers Joey Gallo was one of those players. In fact, he turned out to be the difference maker. One pitch, one monster […]
1. Vlad Guerrero Jr stole the show but not the championship trophy or the million-dollar prize money. Which is okay. Josh Hamilton didn’t win it in 2008 but his performance is all anyone remembers from that night. 2. Guerrero didn’t make the All-Star team and is not going to be Rookie […]
Kevin Sherrington asked some interesting questions in an article in yesterday’s Dallas Morning News. It was about Mike Minor, and the curious case of the Rangers not letting him pitch the final game of the first half, and preventing him from pitching in the All-Star game. It seemed like the […]
Maybe the Rangers aren’t at the same level as the Twins. Or maybe this is just a blip in the radar. Maybe the Rangers aren’t among the elite teams in the American League after all. Or maybe they are just limping into the All-Star break waiting for Hunter Pence to […]
With the first home run the Twins hit last night, they broke the record for most home runs hit before the All-Star break at 162, They hit three more to move to 165. It would be impressive if it was actually something impressive. But this is the year of the […]
The long national nightmare is over. The Rangers snapped their four-game losing streak to beat the Mike Trouts. Lance Lynn is now tied for the major league lead in wins with eleven. He is the new Colby Lewis, an under-the-radar battler who guts it out and goes deep into every […]
It’s not about the Rangers losing four in a row just like it’s never been about how the Rangers finish this season. It’s about guys like Phillips Valdez. He may end up being no more than a footnote for 2019. But he finally got the chance to pitch in the […]
Two-hundred forty-nine pitches. Eleven walks. Two batters hit. Four errors. Eight hits. Nine runs. After the tragedy of Monday, you would have expected it would have been the Angels who would not have come out sharp. Instead, it was the Rangers who played sloppy, unfocused baseball Tuesday night, from the […]
We scream at them when they don’t get that clutch hit. We curse at them when they walk that runner with bases loaded. We hate them when they bat .188. We love them when they are doing super-human things. It’s hard to remember sometimes that they are just human. They […]
