I was going to write about Sunday’s game, but it is 6 am on Monday morning and the MLB statisticians in New York haven’t finished counting Minnesota’s runs and hits, so that recap will have to wait until Wednesday, at their earliest prediction. They are flying in a team from MIT […]
You know how it’s Christmas Eve and it just occurs to you that you still haven’t bought a gift for your wife so you dash off to the twenty-four hour drug store at the corner and walk up and down the aisles desperately looking for something, and to your horror […]
There is this notion going around on local media that the Rangers are gassed and desperately need the All-Star Break to get some much needed rest and rejuvenation, and that is why they have hit a wall lately and are only 3-7 in their last ten games. The only thing […]
The Rangers have had a long inglorious history of some really bad starting pitchers. Who can remember trying to forget Pedro Astocio, Roger Pavlik, Mark Clark, Vicente Padilla, Rich Harden (who never saw a strike zone he couldn’t miss), Todd Van Poppel, Chan Ho Park, or Joe Saunders? The list is […]
As the Rangers limp back to Arlington having lost six of ten on their three-city road trip, many in soul crushing fashion, it might be wise to look at how some famous men handled adversity for inspiration. Walt Disney once said, “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, […]
Yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of my running this site. As always, I have to acknowledge the amazing contributions made by Twig for starting RangersRounding3rd in the first place. Without his vision, elbow grease and love of Rangers baseball, this would have never happened. It’s been a remarkable two […]
You never thought you’d miss Derek Holland. Until you saw who would replace him. The pitching injuries in 2016 are a cruel reminder that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Because it’s like 2014 all over again. Remember that season we are all so deperately […]
The season reached its official halfway point at game eighty-one on Friday. Thirteen weeks in the books. Thirteen more to go. It was one of the more forgettable weeks the Rangers have had in a while. Texas went 3-4, splitting a four-games series in New York and losing a three-gamer […]
Yesterday’s Texas Rangers baseball game was cancelled due to inclement weather. Early July in Minneapolis can be brutally cold. Instead, Fox Sports Southwest broadcast Minnesota Twins batting practice, courtesy of three soon to be former Texas Rangers. In the first five innings, Rangers “pitchers” Chi Chi Gonzalez, Cesar Ramos […]
I often wonder if, when Chuck Morgan announces Ian Desmond at the Ballpark, has he ever accidentally slipped and said Ian Kinsler instead? It would be understandable. After all, the old Ian was a fixture here for eight seasons. He wore out his welcome with his perpetual pop ups […]
