Even though the Rangers endured four shutouts in the span of eleven games, the offense was never a worry. There are simply far too many weapons and far too much talent to sustain any long slumps. They proved that in the third-inning last night, and quickly. A single, a triple, […]

  After stopping their free fall by winning three of four from a very good Cleveland Indians team, the Rangers are looking at the stretch run with a huge lead of 8.5 games over Houston and Seattle, with just thirty-one games left to play. It would take a monumental collapse […]

  Weird series. Three games so far. Three blowouts. Two by Texas. One by Cleveland. 9-0 Texas. 12-1 Cleveland. 7-0 Texas. The Rangers have spent two months bending. But not breaking. They have the chance to win three out of four against Cleveland, and really make a statement about which […]

  Somebody told Martin Perez that yesterday’s game was a road game. Because Road Martin showed up. And when Road Martin shows up, the Rangers end up as road kill. Martin Perez is the most frustrating Rangers pitcher on the staff. He has all the tools to be an ace. […]

  His signing was met with all the joy of a bad case of athlete’s foot. He had worn out his welcome in Houston with a season and a half of misery in which he batted .221 with nine home runs and only forty-two RBIs. That’s combined for both years. He struck out […]

  After nineteen seasons and 10,174 major league at-bats, Adrian Beltre reached a huge milestone last night. He collected his 2,900th hit. It was a double that drove in the go-ahead run in the Rangers 6-5 victory over the Rangers. He is now just one hundred hits away from the magical […]

  On July 1, the Texas Rangers were cruising. They beat the Minnesota Twins 3-2. They had won thirteen out of seventeen games, in spite of coming off a split of a four-game series in New York against the Yankees. They were twenty-three games over .500. Then the bottom fell […]

  Derek Holland is coming back today. This bit of news is significant in so many ways. First of all, the Rangers desperately need a third starter. After Darvish and Hamels, the rotation is as reliable as a used Yugo. According to Gerry Fraley of The Dallas Morning News, since […]

  After losing two of three to last-place Tampa Bay, the Rangers head to last-place Cincinnati. This is the brutal part of their schedule. The Rangers may have the best record in the American League but they are 7-19 against the three teams in last place in the American League. […]