Baseball can be cruel. Baseball can be wonderful. Bartolo Colon has made four attempts to notch career win 246, which would make him the winningest pitcher in Latin American history, and maybe then call it a career and ride off into the sunset on a horse. A really big, […]
The 1969 New York Mets. The 1997 Oakland Athletics Now the 2018 Texas Rangers. Only three teams in major league baseball history have struck out nineteen times and won a game. And, with the 4-3 win yesterday at Minute Maid Park, only one team this year has sweep the […]
The Rangers have just destroyed the Astros twice in every facet of the game on the field. But in the clubhouse, it’s hasn’t been all rainbows and unicorns. According to Levi Weaver’s latest article on The Athletic—the wonderful new on-line sports daily that has collected some of the country’s […]
The race is on. Heading into a crucial three-game series with division-leading Houston, Texas was just twenty-five games back. Now, it’s just twenty-four. The Rangers carved one whole game off the Astros lead last night, inching closer to first place. It might be too early to dream, but a […]
The Cole Hamels era is over. And by most accounts, it was a successful one, his last four starts notwithstanding. But when you speak of pitching on a franchise like Texas, just being able to get the ball to the plate puts you among the elite tier. If nothing […]
***** TODAY’S GAME: Trevor Cahill (1-2, 2.95) vs. Bartolo Colon (5-8, 4.85) Game time: 7:05 How the Athletics hit against Colon. How the Rangers hit against Cahill.
Huge. Lead. Nine. Outs. Away. Walk. Walk. Walk. Walk. Walk. Walk. Flub. Outs. Slip. Past. Lead. Gone. Over. Used. Arms. Gift. Runs. Kela. Blew. Save. Huge Lead Lost. Game. Over. Walk. Away. Bury. Head. Fail. Stun. Pain. Hurt. Slow. Burn. Rage. Many Cuss Words. Wild. Card. Gone. ***** TODAY’S […]
Maybe Cole Hamels loves Texas. Maybe this is the team he wants to spend the rest of his career with. Maybe this is his subtle way of ensuring he won’t be traded. That’s about the only way to explain his sudden and dramatic transformation to Matt Moore. In his […]
Rougned Odor hasn’t had too many good days in the last two years. His downfall started in September of 2016; he slid all the way through the entire 2017 season; and he continued sinking through the first two and a half months of 2018. It was a major league […]
It was a record-setting night. And a record-ending night. Starting with the temperature at game time, all all-time high of 111 degrees. And that was the most enjoyable thing about last night. Austin Bibens-Dirkx broke the Rangers team record for most runs allowed in relief, with eleven. The quintessential […]
