Cleveland manager Terry Francona, who has won two World Series with Boston, is doing something interesting with his newly-acquired All-Star closer Andrew Miller. His closer is not always pitching in the ninth. In fact, in Miller’s twelve appearances with Cleveland so far, he has actually closed out a game four times—in perfect […]
Yesterday was a very good day for Carlos Gomez. And maybe an even bigger one for the Texas Rangers. Gomez got things started off Felix Hernandez, and then finished things off for Felix Hernandez. He showed the ability to beat you with small ball and with the long […]
In. Cred. Able. ***** TODAY’S GAME: Felix Hernandez (9-4, 3.14) vs. Martin Perez (8-10, 4.45) Game time: 1:05 How the Mariners hit against Perez. How the Rangers hit against Hernandez.
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 […]
