Eric Nadel, in classic Nadel style, called the play of the San Diego Padres “buffoonery.” That’s pretty much what it took for the Rangers to win last night. You aren’t going to win too many games where you go 1-for-13 with runners in scoring position. Where your cleanup hitter […]
The only way to keep the Rangers bullpen from blowing a game is to keep the Rangers bullpen from getting into a game. And the way to do that is for the starting pitcher to pitch so well even the manager cannot possibly muster up a reason to take […]
When the Rangers had their last lost season, back in 2014, the story was no longer about the play on the field. That was abysmal. It was about the players who were getting the chance to play that wouldn’t have had the opportunity had the team been playing for something. […]
I let my buddy Sam borrow my car a while ago. He had some errands to run so I let him take it. That’s what friends do. When he brought it back, the car was totaled. A complete loss. I asked him what happened and he said, “Oh, sorry, […]
At least you can say this about the 2017 Texas Rangers. They are predictable. Watching the Rangers is like watching the Texas weather forecast in the summer. You know exactly what you’re going to get. With the weather, it will be unbearably hot morning, day and night. With the […]
At 9:15 central, the Rangers scored a run in the top of the first inning. Nearly five hours and twelve innings later, they scored again, this time two runs, to beat the Seattle Mariners 3-1. In between that first inning run and those thirteenth inning runs was a lot of […]
There are a lot of dimensions on a baseball field. Ninety feet between the bases. Sixty feet, six inches from the mound to home. 330 feet to the fences. Those are all important. But none more so than the tiny little 408-square foot area, roughly three square feet, that constitutes a major […]
Many positive things happened in the Rangers game last night. Rougned Odor worked a walk in the first, only his fifth walk of the year. He jauntily scampered to first base. The Rangers struck out only thirteen times, which means on the other fourteen outs, they were able to make contact […]
Sloppy, undisciplined, ugly. That’s how to describe the 2017 Texas Rangers. Doesn’t anyone know how to play baseball? Yes, it is a difficult game. But that’s no excuse to play it so poorly. It’s hard for every team. Most of them aren’t committing the same sins over and over again. […]