When they announced the special COVID extra innings rule for 2020, with a ghost runner starting at second base, every baseball fan in America scoffed at it. It sounded like the dumbest idea in the world. Turns out, it’s one of the best things to happen to the game. For […]
At the beginning of the season, you’d have thought this next eleven-game stretch the Rangers have in their schedule would have been their death knell. Four against Houston, four against New York, three more against Houston. But the Astros are no longer a team to be feared. And the Yankees […]
Every year the winter turns the long fronds of our palm tree brown. The tree looks dead. But it’s not. If you look at the very top there are tiny green sprouts poking up. Signs of life. But the only way the tree will survive is to cut off all […]
The good luck charm ran out of magic last night. John King had been the rabbit’s foot and four-leaf clover and lucky bottle cap all in one for Rangers manager Chris Woodward. In twelve relief appearances, King had already picked up four wins. Those four Ws, in fact, lead all […]
The Rangers have the look of a team that won’t lose. That’s different than a team that can’t lose. This is a team that doesn’t want to give up. And that is a far cry from the baseball Rangers fans have seen for most of the past seven years when […]
Baseball doesn’t get much more thrilling than last night’s Rangers game. Unless, maybe, for some unknown reason you are a Mariners fan, in which case you are automatically enrolled in the Frequent Losers Club anyway and you’d be used to it. Kohei Arihara had another bad start, his third in […]
Nobody can hit anymore. Offense is down this year. Again. It seems like a yearly thing. Look at the bottom ten batting averages: .204, .206, .207, .215, .219, .223, .225, .226, .226, .226. Which players are these? Sorry, trick question. These are the bottom ten teams. Nobody can hit anymore. […]
Assuming you are one of the ten percent of Rangers fans who can actually watch games, don’t turn off the TV. The Rangers now have nine comeback wins. Six of their last eight games the Rangers have scored the go-ahead runs in the sixth inning or later to turn a […]
He came into camp under the radar. After fifteen seasons in the KBO, Korea’s major league, in which he had won an MVP, Hyeon-jong Yang wanted to see what he could do in America. So, he became a free agent, fielded offers for a major league contract, and was signed […]
This team may finish in last place. Or maybe even fourth. But one thing is sure. This team has moments where it seems like it can come back from anything. And that makes it the most fun bad team the Rangers have had in a long time. Down 3-1 going […]
