Better late than never as the saying goes. When Rangers closer Alex Claudio enduced Marcus Semien to ground into a force play at second to end the game, the dream was fulfilled. Fourth place! Sure it took all of 160 games into the season to do it. But who […]
After their seventh loss in a row, the Rangers magic number still stands at one. One more win or one Oakland loss and the Rangers clinch a fourth-place finish and avoid finishing in last for the second time in the past four years. Or, to put it another way, […]
I got an email from the Rangers. To show their gratitude to season ticket holders (and partial, like I am), they are giving us two tickets to Sunday’s game as part of Fan Appreciation Day. After seeing how lackluster the Rangers have played the past six games, especially […]
The official paperwork arrived last night around 9:35, when the Minnesota Twins defeated the Cleveland Indians. But that was a mere formality. The Rangers were eliminated from the post season long before last night. Long before they laid a huge egg in front of their “home” crowd in an […]
The Rangers have lost a lot of different ways this season—bad bullpen or bad offense being the chief culprits—but their defense has been pretty good. Especially considering Elvis Andrus and Rougned Odor came into 2017 with a reputation for having gloves of lead. And even though Odor is, this […]
The Rangers sucked on the road. There is no gentler way to put it. The road was hell for the Texas Rangers in 2017. They are going to finish dead last in the American League with a road batting average of .224, and a road on-base percentage of .293. […]
The Rangers have shown a remarkable inability to come back late in a game, something that was their specialty last season. But of the 76 games the Rangers have won, they have come from behind in the seventh inning or later just eleven times. And the last time it […]
Once the Rangers clawed back to .500, was there any man, woman or child in America who thought they would get back over the hump? Especially playing the Athletics? This has been their MO the entire season. Win lose win lose win lose win lose win lose. After their […]
When this team is right, it’s very good. And sweeping Seattle in Seattle was nice payback for what just happened last week in Arlington when Seattle won three of four against the Rangers. Cole Hamels was brilliant again, almost unhittable through eight innings. The only blemish, a solo Nelson […]
Four bases-loaded moments made the difference last night. All went the Rangers’ way. In the top of the fourth inning, the Rangers had taken advantage of the generosity of two Mariners errors and two Felix Hernandez walks to take a 3-1 lead. The bases were loaded for Rougned Odor. […]