Greg Genske has to be smiling right about now. His plan worked. His evil devious plan worked. Greg Genske is Tanner Scheppers’s agent. And when it was announced on June 29 that Tanner Scheppers was resuming baseball operations on his way to eventually returning to the mound in a Rangers […]
September 1972: 3-23 record, a .115 winning percentage, team finished in last place. August 1973: 6-24, .200, last place. July 2014: 6-20, .231, last place. June 2003: 7-20, .259, last place. July 1976: 8-22, .267, fourth place July 2016: 4-11, .267 winning percentage, ?. How bad has it been […]
In the history of baseball, there have been some classic pitching match ups for the ages. Bob Gibson and Sandy Koufax faced off May 25, 1961, in an epic nine-inning pitching duel that the Dodgers ace won 1-0. In the loss, Gibson’s ERA dropped to 1.69. In 1963, Giants future […]
Adrian Beltre may be the face of the Rangers but Cole Hamels is the backbone. When the Rangers really need him to step up, he finds another gear. Remember the last game of the regular season last year that was set up because of the second-to-the-last game? Game 161 was […]
Yu Darvish returned yesterday. It was vintage Darvish. When Darvish is at his best, he is so dominating, two teams cannot score. His opponent and his own. And that happened yet again. The pitcher notorious for losing 1-0 games left Saturday’s game with nine strikeouts in 4.1 innings, three […]
Dear Texas Rangers: Please do not suck the second half of the season, Thanks. A fan. ***** TODAY’S GAME: Yu Darvish (2-0, 2.87) vs. Jason Hammel (7-5 , 3.46) Game time: 1:20 pm How the Rangers hit against Hammel. How the Cubs hit against Darvish.
Let’s forget that those last twelve games happened. Let’s say it was just the Rangers being magnanimous and allowing their lesser division mates the chance to dream the big dream that they will then crush in September. Let’s bid farewell to that horrible string of pitching that has brought to question […]
Since 1995, thirty-eight teams have had a lead at the All-Star break of at least five games. How many of those thirty-eight teams went on to win their division? Three. No, sorry, I read that wrong. Thirty-five. Thirty-five of the thirty-eight teams that have been in the position the […]
The Rangers now have home field advantage in the World Series. That was the easy part. The hard part will be getting there. Not that I don’t think the Rangers have the team to do it. It’s just that, right now the Rangers don’t have the team to do […]
At the beginning of the season, many of the RR3 faithful made predictions on the upcoming season. I tried to capture as many of those as I could. (If I missed yours, I am sorry). Some of us even predicted the Rangers would win the World Series. Here they are, in […]