When Wyatt Langford sprinted for home on a fly ball to short center, it seemed like a daring move. A good throw, and he’d most certainly be out. The throw was good. The Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk was crouched down waiting for it, waiting to apply the tag, waiting […]
In the thick of a pennant chance, the Rangers won a Kumar Rocker start. The fact that he’s even allowed to start a game at this important stretch of the season is a headscratcher, but Skip Schumaker replaced him before he inevitably crashed and burned. He got the Blue Jays […]
Leadoff walks always seem to come back to bite you. Cruising with a 3-0 lead into the seventh inning, the Rangers looked to pick up their fifth straight win, which they needed to stay on pace with Houston, who beat Kansas City. But Robby Ahlstrom committed the cardinal sin of […]
Four in a row is nice. Even nicer is tying the Astros for first place with the hope of knocking them out of the playoffs. After 152 games, with just ten left in the season, the Rangers are finally back to .500 and finally tied with the Astros for first […]
It’s just a matter of perspective, I guess. After Sunday’s 7-6 victory over the Diamondbacks, Rangers manager Skip Shumaker said he was proud of the resilience of his Rangers team, how they have been able to storm back into the race for the American League West division, sitting just one […]
After last night’s humiliating loss to Arizona, making it three losses in a row, things look bleak for the Texas Rangers. They’re three games behind Houston for the division lead (four, really, Houston owns the tiebreaker), and now three games back for the third wild card slot, but with two […]
It took Jacob deGrom 92 pitches to carve out his best start ever as a Ranger. It took Jakob Junis 10 pitches to flush it all down the drain. DeGrom wasn’t just great, he was in fact perfect through five innings. He struck out the first five Mariners, eight of […]
In the Too Little Too Late department, there’s Texas Rangers shortstop Corey Seager. Since coming back from his third I.L. stint on July 31, in 34 games, Seager is hitting .294 with an .871 OPS. Those are the kind of numbers expected from the team’s offensive leader. The trouble was, […]
If only there were more innings like the fifth inning of last night’s game. If only there was this much fight in the Rangers all season. If only Cal Quantrill would have been in the rotation from the beginning. This could be a very different conversation. Quantrill was dominating once […]
The Rangers are nothing if not predictable. They play .556 baseball at home, and they just finished their most recent homestand 4-3, as scheduled. Now they go on the road, where they are .431, for six games. They will go 2-4. When the homestand started, they were 2.0 games out […]
