There were a lot of gut punches in last night’s loss. The fact that the offense has disappeared, going 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position last night through the first nine innings (and today they face a Cy Young contender). The fact that Jordan Montgomery pitched the game he absolutely […]
Cincinnati, April 24, 25, and 26. San Diego June 28, 29, an d 30. Arlington, August 28, 19, and 20. The Rangers had their third lost weekend of the season where they got swept in a three-game series and just looked horrible. While the Cincinnati series wasn’t technically a weekend, […]
Maybe it’s not the Houston Astros the Rangers need to be worried about. While Texas has lost three in a row and Houston two, the Seattle Mariners have won five straight and have pulled to within four games of first. One month ago they were ten games back. The National […]
The Rangers almost did the impossible last night. They almost did something that, statistically, they had a 0.00% chance of doing. They almost came back and won at game in the ninth inning. Down 9-4 heading into the bottom of the ninth, due to the return of their dumpster fire […]
MLB.com’s semi-annual MLB Pipeline rankings of each team’s farm system are out. It’s not only a list of where each team falls, but also of the Top 100 prospects in baseball. Texas ranks tenth. Down slightly from their pre-season ranking of seventh. The Rangers have four players on the Top […]
Baseball is weird. Angels starter Reid Detmers came into last night’s game having compiled an ERA over 10.00 in his last four starts. The Rangers have the best offense in the American League. Detmers shuts them out, throwing a no-hitter through seven innings. The last time Reid Detmers pitched and […]
We were taught in kindergarten to share. Sharing is good. Being stingy is bad. True when it comes to finger paints. Not true when it comes to pitching. This run the Rangers have been on, 12-2 in August, started when Chris Young acquired Max Scherzer and Jordan Montgomery to solidify […]
The Rangers finally have an ace. They’ve had a few bona fide number one starters. But they haven’t had a true shut-it-down, guaranteed-to-dominate, hand-him-the-ball ace in a long, long time. They thought they had that with Jacob deGrom. And Cole Hamels. And Yu Darvish. And Kenny Rodgers. What they had […]
The slider doesn’t have to be perfect. The fastball does. Will Smith isn’t the closer in the conventional sense that comes in and blows people away with speed, like Aroldis Chapman. He gets outs with his slider. That often requires going deeper into counts, which means throwing more pitches. Getting […]
The more the Rangers get into the Chris Young era, the more they leave behind the past. Perhaps that was exemplified best this week. As the Rangers remarkable turnaround from six long years of futility continues with another win over the Giants, 9-3, pushing them to 10-1 in August, which […]
