Usually when a team plays the role of spoiler, it’s a nice way of saying they are hopelessly out of the race but can in some small way still be significant by beating teams that are trying to stay in the race. It’s the most backhanded of compliments. The Rangers […]
With apologies to John Lennon: All that we’re saying is give Speas a chance. All that we’re saying is give Speas a chance. Alex Speas has, to quote another old rocker, had a long strange trip to the major leagues. One well worth it, for sure. He was the Rangers […]
When a team has a special season, it, of course, needs good seasons from its stars. Those are the guys you got for this specific reason. Marcus Semien and Corey Seager, who is having a magical season even by expected standards. It’s the role players who step up and have […]
Four games, four victories. Three of them, come from behind. Everything that wasn’t working for the Rangers before the All-Star break is certainly working now. Yesterday’s game was about as good as it gets. Dane Dunning was dominating through seven innings, going toe-to-toe with the Ray’s Cy Young worthy starter […]
The Texas Rangers won fifty-two games in the first half of the season. In all those games, with all that offense they generated, how many games did they win when trailing after six innings? Had to be about ten, right? Six innings is just two-thirds of a game. Certainly, they […]
Being 2-0 out of the break isn’t the big news. The Astros crashing and burning by giving up three in the bottom of the night and then committing a horrible throwing error to let the Angels win it in the bottom of the tenth isn’t the big news. It’s what […]
Admit it. After the third inning, once Jon Gray gave up two, two-run homers, and the Rangers had already stranded two runners on at first with one out and a leadoff double in the third, you were thinking, here we go again. It was only natural. You do not have […]
This is always a critical moment for a team. Coming out of the All-Star break, there’s always a team that struggles. There’s always a team that takes off. If they struggle, it’s blamed on too much rest for the players who didn’t play in the All-Sar Game, too little rest […]
The All-Star Game isn’t what it used to be. That might sound like the Get Off My Lawn rantings of guy screaming at clouds, but it’s true. It used to be a game. Now it’s a TV show. Now it’s content. It’s network programming. Sure, it’s still the best all-star […]
When Nathan Eovaldi took the mound in the second inning of yesterday’s All-Star Game in Seattle, there were six Texas Rangers on the field. That hadn’t happened since the 1951All-Star Game when six Brooklyn Dodgers were on the field at once. Back then, though, there were only eight teams in […]
