Monthly Archives: October 2023


Rangers win Game 3.

The Rangers won Game 3 of the World Series 3-1 over the Diamondbacks in Arizona. But somehow it seems they lost. Max Scherzer left after three innings with a lower back strain. Adolis Garcia left in the eighth after pulling something in his back on a swing. And, in the […]


Max tonight.

Max Scherzer in Game 3.  When the Rangers acquired him at the trade deadline, it was for this very moment. Maybe they didn’t dream it would be at a level this high, the World Series. But they got Scherzer for big games. Yet, somehow, Max Scherzer’s start in Game 3 of […]


Game 2 reminders.

Last night’s World Series Game 2 was a reminder of two things. One, why Arizona is the best team in the National League. Two, the Rangers bullpen. The Rangers threw the best they have at the Diamondbacks in starter Jordan Montgomery. He threw seventy-five pitches. The Diamondbacks swung and missed […]


418 feet of greatness.

How long does it take to vanquish the nightmare of Game 6? How far do they have to go get the monkey off their backs that they cannot win a game when they have to come from behind in the late innings?  Four hundred and eighteen feet. On the anniversary […]


Twelve years later.

And here we are. After a three-day wait the followed a twelve year wait, the Rangers are playing in the World Series again. Twelve years after one-strike away. Twelve years after “the year of Napoli.” Twelve years after Cruz didn’t catch it, the Rangers are back. The team with Ian […]


The invisible man

The Rangers head into the World Series with an offense that is clicking on all cylinders, a two-man bullpen, and a deep rotation that is rested and ready to go. Texas has possibly the best rotation it’s ever had. The rotation is so deep, in fact, that the Rangers starter […]


Texas and Arizona.

One team, the Rangers, hasn’t been in the World Series since 2011. The other team, the Diamondbacks, hasn’t been in the World Series since 2001. Arizona wasn’t even a team until 1998. Yet, in their fourth year in existence, they made it into the World Series. It was 2001. A […]


Mad Max time.

And now it comes down to Max Scherzer.  The Rangers traded for Scherzer for this very reason. After deGrom was lost (probably forever) to the Rangers, and Eovaldi went down, the Rangers suddenly looked at the prospects of having a starting rotation of Dane Dunning, Jon Gray, Andrew Heaney, Martin […]


Oh, that’s right.

We forgot. As Rangers fans, we forgot how bad their bullpen was. We forgot that no team had ever made the playoff with a bullpen that blew more saves than it converted. We forgot that no team had finished a season any higher than two games over .500 with a […]