Monthly Archives: July 2020


Leclerc goes down.

Five games into the season and the Rangers have as many victories as shoulder tears. Two days after Corey Kluber’s season is most likely ended because of a torn shoulder muscle, the Rangers learn that closer Jose Leclerc has suffered the same fate. It’s the same teres major muscle that […]


Finally.

First they finally got a hit. That came in the fourth. Then, it was time for them to maybe try to string together what’s called a big inning. That happened. Finally. And just when it was needed most. After Rangers manager Chris Woodward committed the cardinal sin of removing a […]


Magic number is 90.

Going into a normal regular season, you’d wonder if the Rangers could get to ninety wins. Four games into this sixty-game season, you wonder if they could get to ninety runs. After four games, two in which they have been no-hit through six innings, the Texas Rangers are on pace […]


One and done.

The news wasn’t good. A Grade 2 tear in the teres major muscle in the shoulder of his pitching arm. It appears Corey Kluber’s stint with the Rangers might have lasted all of eighteen pitches. Let’s relive his glorious Texas Rangers career. He threw seven pitches to Rockies center fielder […]


Kluber goes one inning.

The Corey Kluber era hit a huge brick wall.  One of the few truly great pitchers the Rangers have ever had, a pitcher who, himself, has two more Cy Young awards than the entire franchise combined, had to leave his first game with his new team after one inning with […]


As scripted.

So far, after two games, the Rangers are following the script.  As expected, they can pitch. Really well. As expected, they can’t hit. Especially not when it counts. Lance Lynn and the Rangers bullpen didn’t give up a run on Friday. Never in the history of baseball has a team […]


A return to normalcy.

For once, it felt good to feel normal again. It felt good to forget about what was happening throughout our country. It felt good to not have everything in life dictated by a damn virus. It felt good to see the invisible enemy being rendered irrelevant.  These past five months have […]


Opening Day.

Without making a trade or making any significant upgrades to the roster since yesterday, the Rangers playoff chances went up dramatically. That’s because Major League Baseball has decided to jump the shark and allow sixteen of its thirty teams to make the playoffs. Not ten. Sixteen. The top two teams […]


The roster is ready.

The 30-man roster is set. The season is about to begin. The virus is raging throughout the country. Will this crazy thing get pulled off? Even crazier is, Leody Taveras, who has never played above Double-A, will be on the opening day roster. Good for him.  The twenty-one-year-old switch-hitting outfielder […]


The Shed.

This will tell you how the league looks at the Rangers new stadium.  Here is the actual tweet the Colorado Rockies posted yesterday before the game.  They quickly deleted it. But the statement is made. While this might be a really beautiful new ballpark on the inside, it’s an eyesore […]