Whoever said nothing is impossible, never saw last night’s game.    

Alex Gonzalez pitched another brilliant game, but all he got out of it was an L.   You knew it was coming. Everything was working too well for this team. With Adrian Beltre and Josh Hamilton out of the lineup for the foreseeable future, this is a good team that was […]

Mitch Moreland, moments before driving in the game’s fourth run, and knocking out A’s starter Jesse Hahn. Unfortunately, it would not be enough.   Is there a bigger surprise on this surprising resurgent Rangers team than Mitch Moreland? His walk up music is “haters gonna hate.” Appropriate. He has attracted […]

Jeff Banister must be a sadist. Why else does someone, in a razor thin 2-0 game, decide to insert Ross Detwiler into the mix? Maybe he has a mean streak. Or maybe he just realizes luck is on his side so he is bulletproof. Maybe he’s the kind of guy who likes dropping […]

Let’s say Joey Gallo performs so well they cannot send him back down. Then what? And what does him performing so well they cannot send him back down look like? After 24 at bats, Gallo seems to be holding his own. He’s batting .292, with a very good OBP of .370 […]

The Rangers are off today. It’s draft day. The Rangers have been off a lot on draft day. Historically, draft day has been more like D-Day for Jon Daniels. He has been very unlucky. As Evan Grant pointed out in a Dallas Morning News article yesterday, early draft success is rare under Daniels. Since taking over […]

  It might be time to stop mentioning April. That Rangers team is gone. Both figuratively and literally. The April team was a bad team that was playing worse. Detwiler was in the rotation. Feliz was the closer. Martin was the centerfielder and leadoff hitter. Andrus batted second. It was […]

    Kevin Brown. Len Barker. Scott Chiamparino. Alex Gonzalez. By pitching a shutout last night, Gonzalez put his name in the Rangers record book alongside some other well known, and not so well remembered, names. Kevin Brown was the last Ranger to throw a complete game in his second […]

    Fourteen runners left on base. Thirteen strikeouts. Four errors. Two runs scored A win. The Ranger played April ball but got May results. Don’t ask how. Baseball makes no sense. Just take it and move on to Kansas City.