Jon Gray pitched his best game of the season. He was almost unhittable, giving up two harmless singles in seven innings, retiring eleven straight Giants between those two hits, striking out seven and walking none. He was only at 87 pitches after seven innings. But baseball calls you to put […]
The Rangers have 47 games left. They have a 2.5-game lead over the Astros. And a 5.5 lead over the Mariners. The West is a three-team race. The Angels thought they could make a run for it and decided not to trade Shohei Ohtani. Since then, they’ve gone 2-7. Arte […]
The Rangers have won 68 games this year. That’s exactly how many they won last year. With 47 games remaining, there’s a good chance they will top last year’s record. Chances are great, though, that they won’t win that game by coming back the ninth inning. In fact, this entire […]
Eight in a row. The Texas Rangers have their longest winning streak since 2017, when they won ten in a row from May 9 to May 19. That was back when they had Yu Darvish, Cole Hamels, Andrew Cashner, AJ Griffin, and Martin Perez in their rotation. The team was […]
When Johan Heim went down with a wrist injury, it seemed like the Rangers were going to be left with a huge hole at catcher. Heim was, after all, the starting catcher for the American League All-Star team, earned mostly from his bat. He had racked up 70 RBIs, was […]
Nobody said it was going to be easy. And nobody is going to feel sorry for the Rangers. Their sixth straight victory, and second consecutive sweep, came at a huge cost. All-Star rookie third baseman Josh Jung fractured his thumb on a rocket shot hit to him in the sixth […]
It wasn’t pretty. But they don’t all have to be. Jon Gray ran the Rangers rotation’s win streak to five in a row. It wasn’t pretty at all. He got down 5-0 after for innings. His control wasn’t really on from the very beginning, walking two in the first, then […]
Oh, yeah. The Rangers traded for a starter other than Max Scherzer. Last night was the Rangers debut of Jordan Montgomery, the thirty-year-old lefty Texas acquired from St Louis along with reliever Chris Stratton. Like Scherzer the day before, Montgomery picked up a win in his first Rangers start, with […]
As that first inning unfolded, and Max Scherzer delivered another one of his thirty-seven pitches, most of which were way out of the strike zone, and he walked off the mound having given up three runs, it was natural to evoke all those feeling of the Rangers being the most […]
Corey Seager slides into second, injures his thumb, is out for ten days, comes back, and in his first at-bat hits a two-run homer. “I don’t know what else to say about Corey. He’s amazing,” his manager Bruce Bochy gushed after the game. Amazing is a good word to start […]
