You’ve heard of Turn Back The Clock nights where teams will don classic uniforms from their past. The Rangers have created a Turn Back The Clock season. Back to the first two years in Texas when they lost 100-plus games. There will be four 100-loss teams this year. That used […]
That’s four starts now for A.J. Alexy. And three solid starts. It helps, of course, that his three wins as a starter have come off bad teams. The Rockies once and the Angels twice. And never mind his two bad outings have come against good teams. The Astros and the […]
It took Jon Daniels just sixteen years. But he did it. He took this Rangers franchise back to square one. Back to the beginning. Back to 100 losses. He delivered it back to where it started, a team so bad it relocated out of embarrassment and apathy. His 2021 team […]
Occasionally, one looks up from the car wreck that is the Rangers franchise at the MLB landscape. There is some pretty darn compelling baseball going on. The Cardinals have won sixteen games in a row. That’s a franchise record. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade, […]
The announcers on TV called it a pitching duel last night. The Rangers-Orioles game was a shutout through the sixth inning. Max Scherzer vs Brandon Woodruff. That’s a pitching duel. Gerrit Cole vs Robby Ray. That’s a pitching duel. Bob Gibson vs Juan Marichal. That’s a pitching duel. But when […]
Every once in a while, baseball shows back up to remind you of how wonderful it can be. It showed up in the top of the ninth inning yesterday in Baltimore. The Rangers had one of those comebacks that remind of how much we are going to miss this game […]
Last night’s Rangers-Orioles game featured the worst team in the American League. It wasn’t the Orioles. It’s the road Texas Rangers. As bad as Baltimore is, and they are pitiful, putrid, horrible, and all the synonyms Roget can spit out for baseball ineptitude, the Rangers on the road are actually […]
The Rangers can’t play spoiler. At least, they couldn’t spoil the Yankees playoff hopes. They were, unfortunately, able to spoil their own playoff hopes back in April. They rolled over like a tame puppy against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Texas started this killer stretch of thirteen straight against playoff-hopeful […]
Three more hits for Andy Ibañez. And all of a sudden he is the leading Rangers hitter in batting average. He’d be second but the Rangers jettisoned their best hitter, Yohel Pozo, to the minor leagues. That’s the fate of being a Ranger. The better you do, the less attractive […]
The game is about taking advantage of opportunities. You don’t get many. You have to capitalize on them while you can. The Rangers are on their way to a one-hundred-loss season and the Yankees are in the hunt for the playoffs for that reason. One turned opportunities into runs. One […]
