Monthly Archives: May 2017


Elvis’s fantastic night. 554 comments

  Elvis Andrus has found a home batting second in the Rangers lineup. Last year, he sputtered there, and thrived batting ninth. This year, the Rangers had nobody who should legitimately be batting higher than seventh. So, they had to do something drastic. They moved Elvis to the two hole. […]


Eight weeks in. 312 comments

  The Rangers ended the eighth week of the season with a badly needed win in Toronto, avoiding getting swept twice in a row. This season has been a tale of two teams. Plusses and minuses. One very good one and one very bad one. A ten-game winning streak surrounded […]


One lousy pitch. 85 comments

      On the very first pitch of the game from a Toronto Blue Jays pitcher, Shin-Soo Choo hit a home run. On the next 145 pitches of the game from a Toronto Blue Jays pitcher, the Rangers were unable to do anything. They should have quit while they […]


Time for optimism. 131 comments

  Before 1972, before Ted Williams came, before Bob Short ran short on money in DC, before Frank Howard and Toby Harrah and Dick Bosman, before Arlington Stadium, before the Sherman Act that forced there to be a franchise in the first place, before all that, there was no Texas […]


Boston strangled. 313 comments

  Mike Napoli had four. Elvis Andrus, Rougned Odor and Pete Kozma had three each. Joey Gallo had two. So did Ryan Rua. DeShields, Lucroy, and Mazara each had one. The Rangers struck out twenty times. Out of twenty-seven outs. Every single batter struck out. The Rangers even managed to […]


Dy-son of a *$#@&*. 119 comments

Jeff Banister explains his bullpen decision-making: (Click on image to play video.) ***** TODAY’S GAME: Nick Martinez (1-2, 4.33) vs. Drew Pomeranz (4-2, 4.97) Game time: 6:10 How the Rangers hit against Pomeranz. How the Red Sox hit against Martinez.  


Rangers head to Boston. 212 comments

  Texas pulls into Boston in a battle of two teams that are underachieving, although the Red Sox are much more of a culprit than the Rangers. Most baseball experts, and even people who actually know that they are talking about, picked the Rangers to finish behind the Astros. So, […]


Darvish owns Detroit. 40 comments

  Coming into last night’s game, Yu Darvish had started against the Tigers six times. He was 6-0. No loses. Not even a no-decision. Even more impressive, but not his doing, is the fact that the Rangers averaged seven runs a game in his starts. So, it was pretty much […]