Monthly Archives: April 2016


Rare air: Two over. 741 comments

  The Rangers did something they hadn’t done all season. Hit two home runs. And they won. It’s great to play small ball. But a home run can do a lot more damage than fifty-seven singles. A two-run homer in the first helps take a lot of pressure off everyone. It […]


Small ball. 519 comments

Two. So far this year, the Rangers have two home runs at home. In six games. They are so rare we can start naming them. The Rangers are on pace to hit twenty-seven home runs in Arlington this season. Remember when the Ballpark was considered a hitter’s park? A lot of that was […]


Week two. 209 comments

The first two weeks of the season are in the books and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: What if nobody wins the A.L. West? Every day there is a new leader. Win two games in a row and you are running away with the division. Lose two in a […]


A quality starter. 137 comments

  A game like last night’s has so many noteworthy moments and plays, with fourteen hits, with two-double performances from Delino DeShields and Mitch Moreland, with Nomar Mazara collecting three hits and a walk, with the Rangers taking advantage of some sloppy Orioles plays in the seventh, with the patience […]


An ugly one. 451 comments

  The Rangers came into yesterday’s game having committed just four errors. They nearly matched that in one game. Ian Desmond and Delino DeShields went back to back in the bottom of the third. Rougned Odor committed the other in the bottom of the tenth. All in all, the three errors added […]


As good as it gets. 658 comments

When you win 8-0 it means pretty much everything was going your way. Especially when you get five RBIs from Adrian Beltre. Of course, Derek Holland throwing six shutout innings is just the icing on the cake. That’s now seven quality starts out of eight games for the Rangers rotation. Oh, […]


First week highlights. 902 comments

The Rangers finished the first week of the season 3-4, having lost one series and split one series. Next week they have three in Seattle and then return home for four against Baltimore. So, what did the first week reveal? Here are ten things: One, Cole Hamels is an ace. He […]