Rougned Odor might finally be turning it around. He hit a mammoth 447-foot home run in the top of the second to put the Rangers up temporarily. He singled in the sixth. He even got on by getting hit with a pitch. All the amazing moment was captured thanks to […]
Playing teams like the Tigers and the White Sox and the Royals might be good for the ego, but it doesn’t give you an honest assessment of who you really are. That comes when you play the good teams. Like the Red Sox. Last night’s 5-0 loss to Boston […]
Shin-Soo Choo grounded into a double play to end the top of the seventh inning in yesterday’s series- and season-finale against the Detroit Tigers. His team was up 3-0. His crack at setting the franchise record for consecutive games getting on base looked over. The Rangers would have to […]
“Take away the first inning and…” Announcers say things like that all the time, and yesterday was no exception. It always makes me roll my eyes like a daughter hearing a hilariously funny dad joke. It’s a common thing announcers and fans say when trying to rationalize away something. […]
Forgotten in all the trade talk about where Hamels or Beltre will end up, is where Elvis Andrus goes. Or doesn’t go. Andrus has an opt out at the end of the season. He can stay or he can go. Andrus’s agent is Scott Boras. You hire Boras for […]
Congratulations to Jeff Banister. With last night’s 7-5 win over the Detroit Tigers, Banister becomes the fastest Texas Rangers manager to 300 wins. It took him 574 games. If you don’t count interim manager Tim Bogar, who at 14-8 had a winning percentage of .636 but in a small […]
The Rangers are in the wrong division. With last night’s 5-4 extra-inning loss to Houston, in a game the Rangers led 4-0, the Rangers are now 38-49, eleven games under .500. They are 14-26 against the American League West: 4-12 against the Astros, 1-5 against the Angels, 4-5 against […]
After a week of weaker teams, the Rangers ran into the first place Astros. Dallas Keuchel resdiscovered his stuff, which means he was not going to allow much. He went seven innings and gave up two runs. And in another spirited start, Austin Bibens-Dirkx gave up five in six […]
On paper, this one’s a no brainer. A former Cy Young winner and one-time ace of the World Series winning team is going up against a thirty-three-year-old career minor leaguer who has only ten major league starts. No way Austin Bibens-Dirkx has any chance in this one against Dallas […]
The numbers for June are in, and they ended up looking pretty good for the Rangers. They didn’t start that way, though. June was the team’s first winning month of the year. Getting off to slow starts is a hallmark of Jeff Banister-managed teams, and this year was no exception. […]
