Monthly Archives: September 2015


Delino De Spark Plug. 796 comments

  Delino DeShields had the most important at-bat of the game last night, and may have had the two biggest at-bats for the Rangers this year. Both eerily similar. The first one happened May 4. With the Rangers limping out of the gate after a horrendous April, they crawled into […]


It’s so close. 707 comments

  It’s so close, you can feel it. The finish line to this long grueling marathon is in sight. But like in those B-movies, the more you run toward the escape door, the more it seems to get further away every time they cut back to the scene. That’s what […]


This Gallo thing. 546 comments

  Reading Jeff Banister’s comments in The Dallas Morning News defending his inserting Joey Gallo into the lineup at this critical point in the season, it’s obvious he is merely speaking someone else’s words. Because it makes no strategic sense. And game strategy is his domain. If, indeed, they are just trying […]


C.J. Cron 5, Texas 2. 501 comments

Sometimes you just run into somebody’s best game ever. CJ Cron was pretty much unstoppable. He drove in all five runs of the Angels’ runs. Combine that with the Rangers leaving ten runners on base, and you get what we got. Beaten. 5-2. Garret Richard came into last night’s game […]


Playoff question. 664 comments

Here is an interesting dilemma. Would you rather have the Rangers win the West, or win a wild card? Before you answer that, look at the ramifications. If the Rangers win the West, they will have a best-of-five playoff series against the Toronto Blue Jays, who just beat them two […]


Today’s hero. 270 comments

  Mitch Moreland got only two at-bats in last night’s game against the Padres, but he needed only one to be last night’s hero. With Elvis Andrus on first in a 3-3 tie in the top of the tenth, Mitch Moreland shot a double down the right field line to score […]


September baseball. 1109 comments

  September baseball is different than any other month. Suddenly, every inning matters. There is no margin of error, no patience for auditions, no room for failure. Runs need to be driven in, not left on. Batters need to be retired, not allowed to do damage. The Rangers haven’t been […]


Hitting coaches. 626 comments

  Dave Magadan has to feel pretty good about the offensive turnarounds he has seen from three of his key players. Shin-Soo Choo was left for dead the first half of the season, really the entire year and a half he has been a Texas Ranger. He wasn’t getting at-bats against […]