Here is the pitching dilemma facing the best team in the American League: 1. They have two types of relief pitchers, either really good or really bad (in all fairness, it’s a situation that is getting much better). 2. Their relief pitchers are really overworked. 3. Their relief pitchers are […]
The Rangers just completed twenty games in twenty days in the most remarkable fashion possible. When they set out on this stretch three weeks ago, knowing that half of those games would be played over a three-city, ten-game road trip, most would have been satisfied if the Rangers went 11-9, maybe […]
Colby is human after all. The six million dollar man is, well, a man. He’s been scientifically rebuilt in the hip, shoulder and elbow. He has survived a line drive off the head, hip replacement surgery, and worse of all, years in Oakland. But the inevitable was eventually inevitiable. […]
Three starts ago, Derek Holland gave up five earned runs in five innings against Seattle, leaving the game trailing 5-1. The Rangers would rally late but fall short 7-5. Holland earned the loss. Two starts ago, Derek Holland gave up four earned runs in three-and-two-thirds innings and left the […]
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 […]