The Rangers forty-second win of the season was the Colby Lewis near perfect game, near no-hitter, near shutout, which he won, 5-1, with a complete game two-hitter to move to 6-0 on the season. ***** CLOSE. Originally published June 17, 2016. “Well, that sucked.” That’s how Colby Lewis summed it […]
The Rangers were being totally dominated by Sonny Gray for five innings, then came to life in the sixth, which propelled them to their second win in a row against Oakland, their forty-first win of the season, and put them six-and-a-half games up on Seattle to start putting some serious […]
Ignore Pudge Rodriguez’s offense and look only at his defense. Yes, that’s like hiring Sophia Vergara strictly on her comic timing. But do it. While most people look at a player’s offense as the ticket into the Hall of Fame, Pudge got there because of his defense. He said […]
The Rangers signed Dillon Gee to a one-year minor league contract worth up to two million dollars in salary and incentives. Move along folks, there is nothing to see here.
The Rangers became the first team in the American League to win forty games, which would start a seven-game winning streak, their longest of the season, which they would enjoy one other time in 2016. ***** RETURNING THE FAVOR IN OAKLAND Originally published June 15, 2016. You can’t blame them […]
Nomar Mazara, playing right field, ended the game in dramatic fashion with an incredible throw from deep in the corner of the outfield to Rougned Odor at second base to nail Robinson Cano trying to stretch a single into a double and trying to stretch a loss into a win. […]
Matt Bush picked up his second major league win in a June 11 game on the road against the Mariners. The Rangers won 2-1 with a run in the top of the eleventh after a dramatic home run in the bottom of the ninth from Prince Fielder tied it with […]
The Rangers dipped back into the bag of injured pitchers and plucked out former good pitcher and former Padre Tyson Ross on a one-year deal reportedly worth six million, with incentives. Ross started on opening day for the Padres last season, then didn’t pitch again. He had Thoracic Outlet Syndrome […]
After Tom Wilhelmsen cratered on the third game of the series to give Houston its first win in nine games against Texas, the Rangers rebounded in the series finale, 5-3, behind six strong innings from Martin Perez. ***** A RETURN TO NORMALCY. Originally published June 10, 2016. One day after […]
The Rangers won their fifth game in a row, taking the first two of a four-game series from Houston, 4-3, on a Tuesday night in early June for their thirty-sixth win of the season. Jake Diekman picked up the win in relief. Bobby Wilson and Ian Desmond went deep, Desmond’s […]