This Rangers team is fun to watch. Fun to follow. Fun to talk about. And they are having a lot of fun playing. Fun, that is, for everybody but the manager standing in the opposing dugout. For him, it’s frustration and failure a few other f-words. Texas just finished […]
Thank goodness for pitch count baseball. Thank goodness Mike Matheny is a disciple of Tony LaRussa, who never saw a dominating pitcher he couldn’t yank after one hundred pitches. The Rangers were not going to score off Carlos Martinez. Simple as that. If he went fifteen innings they were […]
Coming out of spring training, Rangers fans could not wait to get Yu Darvish back from Tommy John surgery so he could team up with Cole Hamels to give Texas a pair of aces at the top of the rotation. But things haven’t work out that way. Darvish did come back. […]
“Well, that sucked.” That’s how Colby Lewis summed it up in his post-game interview yesterday. I doubt anyone watching the game would have shared that opinion, unless you were an Athletics fan. And if that’s the case, you’re not able to read this recap anyway, so what’s it matter? […]
Last night’s game proved a few things. This Rangers team is for real. It’s special. It’s hard to beat even when you think you have it pinned to the mat. And there are so many offensive weapons that it’s hard to shut down all of them in any given […]
You can’t blame them for Monday, really. Imagine being dropped into hostile territory in the middle of a war zone and being asked to hit a fastball while a roving pack of thugs chases you with knives and clubs. You’d be shell shocked too. That’s what seems to happen to […]
Back on August 9 of 2014, Yu Darvish went to the mound for his fifth inning of work, down 2-0 against the Astros, a team he pretty much owned his entire career. He promptly gave up a single, a single, a walk, a double and a single before being […]
There’s really one one word to describe how yesterday’s game ended and the throw Nomar Mazara made to end it: Wow. ***** TODAY’S GAME: Cesar Ramos (1-2, 3.58) vs. Sean Manaea (2-4, 6.20) Game time: 9:05 pm How the Rangers hit against Manaea. How the Athletics hit against Ramos. […]
Raise your hand if, when Prince Fielder came up to bat with two outs in the ninth inning, you figured the game was over. A great pitching performance from Colby Lewis was wasted. The Rangers were going to lose 1-0. And, when Fielder had two strikes on him, you […]
You never like to lose. But at least there were some things to like about this loss. To begin with, Mitch Moreland hit two home runs. That is a day after hitting two doubles. That can only be a good thing. The top three hitters in the lineup got […]