Days like these are always the best days of baseball. Four playoff games. Wall to wall baseball. Playoff baseball. The best kind there is. So far, we’ve seen a game with fourteen-and-a-half scoreless innings. We’ve seen a glorious comeback from being down 8-1. We’ve seen most starters going deep into […]
So much for the home team having such a huge advantage in these best-of-three wildcard series where every game is played in the park of the team with the best record. Three of the four visiting teams won. Which just proves the old adage about the playoffs. Just make it […]
This is why the Rangers need a manager with experience. Someone who doesn’t just manage by the analytics and the preset plan. The Mets were fighting for their playoff lives yesterday. They had lost Game 1 of the best-of-three series. They started their best pitcher, Jacob deGrom. After six innings, […]
There were four wildcard games played yesterday. The new format favors the home team, giving them every game in the best-of-three series. That’s why the visiting team won three of the four games. Because, baseball. Seattle beat Toronto in Toronto. Philadelphia beat St. Louis in St. Louis. San Diego beat […]
The Rangers season is over. Now it’s time to see what good baseball looks like. All four wildcard series start today. This is a new format, voted on to end the lockout. The players wanted to put an end to tanking and to teams not trying to be competitive. They […]
The Rangers won the last one. Actually, the last two. And, with that, it’s over. Thankfully, mercifully over. Another lost year. Another forgettable Rangers season. They won just sixty-eight games. Only eight more than last year. Rangers fans should have known this year was going to go off the rails […]
Sixty-two. On a one-one count in the top of the first inning against Jesus Tinoco, Aaron Judge became the first man in baseball history to hit sixty-two home runs in one season legitimately. No, he doesn’t have the record. Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa slathered that PED stain […]
Finally, there is meaningful October baseball in Arlington. The Rangers got really lucky that the Yankees are in town to close out the season and that Aaron Judge is trying to set the all-time non-PED home run record. Imagine if they were playing the Tigers or Athletics or some other […]
All season long the Rangers celebrated their fiftieth season in Arlington. They talked about tradition. They talked about great players from the past. But mostly they tried to connect the present to the past. They succeeded with that. But in a way they probably never wanted to. The Rangers just […]
So, Cole Ragans’s first major league season is over. He allowed one earned run over five innings of work against the Los Angeles Angels Without Mike Trout In The Lineup but was unable to get his first major league win. The twenty-four-year-old left-hander started nine games, throwing a total of […]
