Watching yesterday’s painful 11-10 loss to Seattle, about the only analogy I could think of to describe this team so far this year was a bad used car. You fix your transmission, then your tires go flat. You get new tires, and your brakes are shot. You fix the brakes, […]
Yesterday a lot of Josh Hamilton news broke. Normally Josh Hamilton news would be marginally germane to Rangers fans since he was the engine that led this team to two World Series appearances, the Rangers franchise being mostly irrelevant before he got here, and mostly irrelevant since he left. Among […]
When you are going to bat only .210 as a team, there’s only one way to win. Great pitching, and double plays to bail you out when you need them. Gallardo pitched six strong innings, wobbled a few times, but got three double plays behind him to prevent potential crashing and […]
Which will happen first?: 1. Rangers win a series. 2. Prince Fielder hits a home run. 3. Leonys Martin gets his batting average over .200. 4. Delino DeSheilds gets sent back to Houston. 5. Nick Martinez allows an earned run. 6. Ross Detwiler gets his ERA under 9.00. 7. Neftali […]
The first ten games of the season are over, and the 2015 Texas Rangers are 4-6. After ten games, the 2010 World Series team was 5-5. They lost the next four games in a row. The 2014 team was also 5-5 at this point. They […]
Nick Martinez is the ace? Mitch Moreland is batting second? And the Rangers won? You cannot make this stuff up. Jeff Banister juggles the lineup. The result? Offense. Rangers fans are used to the lineup card being printed in April and then turned in every day for the rest […]
Ross Detwiler showed us something last night. He is probably a relief pitcher. For the second straight start, he made it through the lineup once unscathed. Then, when hitters got comfortable with him, he was very scathed. The Angels hit the ball hard but at people the second time around, generating […]
They came bearing gifts. The Houston Astros came to town in a generous mood. Saturday, they threw away an easy inning-ending ground ball which gave the Rangers new life and allowed them to run away with what had, before that error, been a close game. The Astros did everything […]
Ah, those left-handed sidearmed pitchers. They are a rarity. When they deliver the ball to the plate, it gives a left-handed batter fits because the ball rotates differently, it has very uncommon movement. The physics of it are this: The four-seam fastball, when thrown by a typical overhand pitcher, […]
The Curse continues. The dark cloud is still overhead. The most snakebitten franchise in major league baseball just took another sucker punch to the gut. Derek Holland tried to come back from injury in spring training, only to last an inning in his first start of the season, only to […]