So far, the Rangers kiddie core is holding its own. That’s a good sign. Josh Jung andBubba Thompson are getting a real taste of major league pitching, and don’t seem to be overwhelmed. Third baseman Jung has played in ten games now, accumulating forty plate appearances. He’s hit three home […]
With yesterday’s 5-3 loss to Tampa Bay, the Texas Rangers have been officially eliminated from playoff contention. They are now 17 games out of the final wild card spot with 16 games to play. MLB added a third wild card to each league starting this year, giving the Rangers one […]
It’s hard to tell what the Rangers have in Jon Gray. But whatever they have, they have him for three more seasons. So, as they build a rotation from scratch, he is the one guy whose name they can write in permanent ink on the whiteboard. If, come next season, […]
There were bright spots in this mostly hazy season. Two were on display in last night’s game. Martin Perez and Nathanial Lowe. Yes, there’s the arrival, with a bang, of Josh Jung. And the baby core of Bubba Thompson and Leody Taveras showing they might have staying power. And, of […]
The Rangers have nineteen games to play. They have lost eighty-one games. Mathematically, they could lose one hundred games this season. It’s doubtful that happens. They lost Wednesday. To lose one hundred means they would have to lose twenty games in a row. They will not lose twenty games in […]
Remember when you were little and you were on a long, boring car trip because your dad wouldn’t spring for pitching, ooops, wouldn’t spring for airfare, so you piled everything and everyone into a small car and drove, and the miles and mile and miles just piled up endlessly and […]
Who is Mark Mathias and where did he come from? The Oakland Athletics are probably asking that question after last night’s game in which Mathias hit a game-tying two run homer in the bottom of the seventh and a game-winning solo shot in the bottom of the ninth. Mathias is […]
This is yet another Rangers season that’s limping to the end, just desperately trying to finish. At least yesterday the schedule makers were nice enough to get two of them out of the way in one day. The Rangers split in Miami. Nothing unusual there. They were in it in […]
With his win yesterday, Martin Perez is now 11-6 this season. They’ve won eighteen of the twenty-eight games he’s started. Most of those ten losses have been due to lack of offense. It’s hard to imagine where this team would be without him. The Rangers won their sixtieth game of the […]
It’s starting to feel as if the Rangers are not going to make the playoffs this season. It was all riding on yesterday’s crucial game against Toronto. In a must-win game, the Rangers sent their ace to the mound. Kohei Arihara, the pride of Hiroshima, Japan, a city known for […]
