Jacob Latz had gone 22 straight appearances without a blown save or a loss. In that stretch, he recorded 16 saves and two wins. That’s a pretty dominating run for a closer. So, you can excuse him for not being perfect. Last night, he recorded his first blown save since […]
Needing a huge infusion of talent to stop a five-game skid and to give themselves a fighting chance to stay in the playoff race, the Rangers came out of the trade deadline with a run-of-the-mill middle-inning relief pitcher. Adam Macko is a 25-year-old lefthanded rookie who came to Texas from […]
The Rangers were in first place at the beginning of the week, with a chance to really make a move to solidify themselves in the weakest division in baseball. Then they lost five in a row, including being swept in a three-game series by the only other team in their […]
The Dodgers traded for Tarik Skubal. That was totally expected. But something seems odd about it: They didn’t give up much for him. It’s almost as if it was a foregone conclusion with the owners that the Dodgers would land him to prove a point. Baseball needs a salary cap. […]
Corey Seager came back, got two hits, and it didn’t matter. The Rangers lost. Actually, it wasn’t a loss. It was a mugging. It was a beatdown. The Rangers were humiliated 11-2 in Houston by the Astros who have moved into first place in the pitiful A.L. West. The perpetually […]
The Rangers send out surveys from time to time, asking fans their thoughts on the season, their level of fandom, thoughts about The Baseball Shed, their City Connect uniforms, things like that. One question they ask is to describe the Rangers in one word. The most appropriate word to describe […]
With Monday’s trade deadline staring down at them, the Rangers made a deal yesterday that helps them in two areas: catcher and bullpen. You wouldn’t think they’d need catching help going into the season with Kyke Higoshioka and Danny Jansen expected to split time. Neither was a huge offensive threat, […]
If this seems like the best the Rangers have been, you’re right. Three games over .500 is their high-water mark, achieved three times. After the fourth game of the season when they were 4-1. Now, after the 107th game of the season, they are 55-52. It took them 103 games […]
The Rangers crushed George Kirby’s dominance. Literally crushed it. George Kirby had owned the Rangers over his career. In 12 career starts against the Rangers, he’d allowed just 11 earned runs. That’s in 74.1 innings pitched. And in all that time, the Rangers were able to muster only four home […]
Apparently, it was too much to expect the Rangers to sweep the four games against the Mariners. They won the first two and had a lead two-thirds of the way into the third. It looked promising. Then the Mariners bats woke up, they scored four runs in the top of […]
