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 […]
The sliver of hope stays alive. Down 5-1 against the Rays in a must-win game, the Rangers fought back in one of the most satisfying games of the season, on a day when Houston, Baltimore, and Toronto—who are all ahead of them in the division and wildcard races—all lost. Texas […]
September is starting to sort itself out. The logjam for the third wildcard spot is slowly getting relieved. Toronto and Cleveland, both with winning records, are putting a bit of distance between themselves and the Rangers and Orioles who are both unable to get to .500. The Rangers second-half slide […]
In an effort to coddle their struggling young starter Kumar Rocker and exact some sort of value out of him, the Rangers employed the rare two-opener strategy yesterday. Not the usual opener who goes the first inning then bring in Rocker, they went with an opener for the first inning, […]
Even though the Rays have the best record in baseball, they just cannot seem to win when they come to the Shed. Kind of like the Rangers going to Seattle and finding a black hole there, the Rays came into last night’s game having lost nine games in a row […]
With yesterday’s 9-2 loss to Sacramento, the Rangers finished 6-7 against the Athletics. They went 5-8 against the Angels. That in a nutshell is why they are languishing at under .500, and gasping for playoff air. If you cannot beat the teams your supposed to beat in your division, you […]
