It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Three weeks into the season and the Rangers have yet to gel. After winning four in a row, they lose the next three in a row. In six games this week, the Rangers recorded one sweep against the under-.500 […]
Yesterday’s game wasn’t worth recapping for fear you’d have to recall it. So to save us all from having to remember it, here is a cat video to watch instead. I promise this will be infinitely more enjoyable. And to Nick Martinez, who threw twenty of twenty-two pitches out of […]
It was forty degrees last night in Chicago. Too cold for humans and baseball. The Rangers bats froze. Worse, the Rangers brains froze. Delino DeShields led off the game with a walk. He was promptly picked off. It was going to be one of those games. It was a close, tight […]
Last year’s National League Cy Young award winner threw a no-hitter last night against Cincinnati. Last year’s American League Cy Young award winner threw a thirteen-hitter last night against Texas, allowing a three-game sweep over the cross-state rival Houston Astros 7-4. Since the Astros moved to the American League […]
The Rangers were 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position last night. Fortunately the Astros were 1-for-12. Fortunately, too, the one hit the Rangers did get, from Rougned Odor, went into the second deck and scored all the runs the Rangers could get or would need. And, even more fortunately, the Astros […]
The Rangers did something they hadn’t done all season. Hit two home runs. And they won. It’s great to play small ball. But a home run can do a lot more damage than fifty-seven singles. A two-run homer in the first helps take a lot of pressure off everyone. It […]
Two. So far this year, the Rangers have two home runs at home. In six games. They are so rare we can start naming them. The Rangers are on pace to hit twenty-seven home runs in Arlington this season. Remember when the Ballpark was considered a hitter’s park? A lot of that was […]
The first two weeks of the season are in the books and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: What if nobody wins the A.L. West? Every day there is a new leader. Win two games in a row and you are running away with the division. Lose two in a […]
A game like last night’s has so many noteworthy moments and plays, with fourteen hits, with two-double performances from Delino DeShields and Mitch Moreland, with Nomar Mazara collecting three hits and a walk, with the Rangers taking advantage of some sloppy Orioles plays in the seventh, with the patience […]
Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre signed a contract extension that will keep the face of the franchise in Arlington for two more seasons after this year. There couldn’t have been better news yesterday. Then the game started. The Rangers hit their second home run last night at the Ballpark this season. […]