Just in case Detroit got any wild ideas about rallying, Yovani Gallardo gets JD Martinez to ground into an inning-ending double play and keep its scoreless streak alive. Detroit bats came into this series on fire, having scored 25 runs in their previous two games before Texas came to town. After beating […]
Miguel Cabrera mistakes himself for a runner with speed and is tagged out at home for the final out of the fourth inning. Every player has his kryptonite. With Shin-Soo Choo, for instance, it’s left-handed pitchers. With Josh Hamilton, it’s injuries. With Tanner Scheppers, it’s baseball. With the Tigers […]
Martin Perez tried to pitch around Miguel Cabrera in the first, and ended up allowing him to score the game’s first run. There’s a saying in baseball that momentum is only as good as that day’s starting pitcher. Yesterday’s starting pitcher for Detroit was pretty darn good. One-hit good, […]
They call Derek Holland the Dutch Oven. After watching him pitch yesterday, perhaps a more appropriate kitchen gadget-based nickname would be the Blender. Holland made his first appearance of the mound yesterday afternoon since tossing a single inning in a start here on opening day in April 10. […]
Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor’s home run was about the only damage Texas could do to Seattle’s under-rated ace Hishasi Iwakuma. This one went down to the last pitch. With the Rangers down 3-2 in the bottom of the ninth, the Rangers just needed a base runner to get it […]
The Mariners un-closer Fernando Rodney moments before walking Beltre with bases loaded. Small ball turned out to be huge for the Rangers last night. It didn’t hurt that the Mariners had their version of Tanner Scheppers on the mound in Fernando Rodney. With the score tied 3-3 in the bottom of the […]
Adrian Beltre connects for a home run that helped the Rangers complete the sweep of Tampa Bay at home. Let’s hope Adrian Beltre’s thumb is feeling better. Let’s hope what we saw the last couple of days is for real. Because for only the second time this season, Beltre hit a […]
Enough’s enough: Colby Lewis gets the sign for his 15th and final pitch to Asdrubal Cabrera in the 6th. At a point in the season when they need to play their best baseball of the year, the Texas Rangers played their best game of the year. It’s not just that they scored twelve runs—they […]
Rule 5, Home Run 1: For once the Rangers didn’t need DeShields’s speed on the basepaths. Delino DeShields hit a delino drive way over the left field wall for his first ever home run. It couldn’t have come at a better time. It tied the game at 3-3 in the […]
The Rangers come back home after a not so great road trip in which they went 2-4 against some bad teams, one of those slightly worse than the Rangers, one slightly better. Through the first five road games, the Rangers “offense” could muster no more than three runs […]