Six of the next twelve games the Rangers play are against the Astros, the fourth-place team in the American League West. Houston is in fourth place only because the Angels are in the same division and they are perpetually in last. The Angels would finish second in a one-team division. […]
For a few minutes, it looked like the Rangers failure in acquiring a closer was going to bite them in the rear again. They’ve tried so many options, all of them failing. So, it fell on Jacob Latz. He’s been pretty good. Except for last night. He entered the game […]
Maybe all it takes it to write off the Rangers. It seemed to work. A day after they slipped into an offensive coma, the Rangers awake to one of their best offensive games at home. Maybe it takes something as crazy as having Joc Pederson lead off. Who makes a […]
There are sleeping pill. Melatonin. Ambien. Lunestra. Diphemdramine. Sonata. Temazepam. Triazolam. There are natual sleep aids. Chemical sleep aids. Orgnaic sleep aids. But nothing has been clinically proven to be more effective at putting you into a deep sleep than watching the Texas Rangers. They’re boring. It’s a boring baseball […]
When Jacob deGrom does what he is capable of, the other team doesn’t have a shot. Yesterday, his slider was unhittable. As a result, the Cubs were shellshocked and shutout for the second game in a row. DeGrom was so dominating, he was perfect through the first three innings, before […]
That’s how it’s done. Finally, after nearly forty games — a quarter of the season — the Rangers put it together. The offense clicked. The pitching dominated. The defense…well, okay, let’s not get too carried away about this game. It started out looking like it was going to be another […]
Maybe, just maybe Globe Life Field is not a haven for the dead ball era as popular opinion would have one believe. Maybe, just maybe, the Rangers bats are where the dead ball era lives. Texas played nine innings of baseball last night. They sent thirty-three batters to the plate. […]
It doesn’t get any easier. After losing two of three to the best team in the American League, the Rangers come home to face the best team in the National League. The Cubs are coming to town, and they’re bringing a nine-game winning streak with them. Texas is sending out […]
Is Corey Seager out of his season-long slump? The Rangers hope so. They have a chance to win with Seager hitting. They don’t without him. He dragged a .213 average into Yankee Stadium, then went 0-for-4 in the opener of the three-game series to drop it down to .206. This […]
The Rangers are officially in the same league as the Yankees, but the Rangers are not in the same league as the Yankees. New York ripped into Jacob deGrom. He’s the best the Rangers have. That doesn’t bode well for Nathan Eovaldi and MacKenzie Gore, the next two victims of […]
