We live in a world of instant gratification. We want it now and we don’t want to wait. Legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans said it best when he joked, “ Instant gratification takes too long .” But sometimes the slow ride is better. Last night it took a one-hour-and-eighteen-minute […]
Last night the Rangers played their fourth extra inning game of the year. They are now 0-4 in those games. They have not yet scored a single run in extra innings. The team that prides itself on Never Ever Quitting doesn’t work overtime. They are the government workers of […]
The Rangers finished the week at 4-3, on a seven-game road trip that featured some really nice recoveries. A sweep of the Detroit Tigers on the heels of three frustrating losses in a row to Toronto was a welcome sign. Even more welcome was how the Rangers did it. Not […]
Here were yesterday’s winning numbers: ***** TODAY’S GAME. Martin Perez (1-2, 3.60) vs Justin Verlander (2-3, 6.49) Game time: 12:10 pm. How the Rangers hit against Verlander. How the Tigers hit against Perez.
Call the jeweler, Hamels just cut a gem. To beat a guy with an ERA of 0.55, you need a pitcher who is even better than that. And last night, Cole Hamels was. He threw seven shutout innings, seven dominating shutout innings, while the offense behind him scored three […]
It was bound to happen. The Rangers had gotten pretty remarkable starting pitching all season long. You can’t expect it to happen every game. But when it rains, it pours. And it was much more than a thunderstorm of runs that rained down on Derek Holland last night; it […]
The Rangers bullpen is like that arcade game Whac-A-Mole. You never know where the trouble is going to pop up. All you can do is try to hit it over the head before it does. Or sit back and watch the opposing batters hit balls over everyone’s heads. One […]
First it was Leonys Martin. Now Justin Smoak. This is shaping up to be the season when horrible ex-Rangers come back to haunt the team. Thank goodness Scheppers is still a Ranger (never thought those words would ever be uttered in human history). Smoak was homerless until last night’s […]
Eric Nadel called it “boneheaded.” Luckily, baseball is a team game and Delino DeShields’s teammates overcame another one of his questionable base running decisions—the second time this season DeShields’s bad baserunning has erased a run. In the end, though, it was the outfielder in right who turned the game around. […]
The Rangers have yet to win a game in May. But it’s not time to panic just yet. Simply play better defense in center field. While the Rangers defense overall has been superb this year, with a current streak of eight straight games without an error, it was a ball […]