It looks like the Mets have that “thing” going on. Call it mojo or magic or whatever, but they are making baseball fun. Monday, in the crucial hurricane-forced doubleheader in which they absolutely had to win a game, they scored six runs in the eighth to erase a 3-0 deficit. […]
Poor Baltimore Orioles. For the second year in a row they watched their excellent regular season go up in smoke by being swept in the wild card series. Last year, of course, by Texas, this year by Kansas City. They amassed 192 victories over two years in the regular season, […]
The Astros are now one loss away from being eliminated in the playoffs. They have been to the Championship Series seven years in a row. A loss today or tomorrow would end that streak. A betting man would be unwise to wager against the Astros at this point based on […]
What a game. This is what makes baseball so much fun. It’s the impossible and the improbable. The first game of yesterday’s season-ending doubleheader was one of the most fun baseball games you’ll ever watch. Mainly because, if you’re a Rangers fan, you didn’t have to suffer through the agony of […]
Well, it’s over. Finally, mercifully over. It was an 8-0 win, a meaningless final game in a season that has been meaningless since the end of May. You can pinpoint the exact day, in fact. May 21. The Rangers lost to the Phillies 5-2 on May 21 to slip under […]
In the better late than never category, Game 161 might have been the most fun game of the season. Just as the season is ending, Rangers fans get a reminder of the joy of baseball. Down 8-3 in the sixth inning of a meaningless game of a hapless season, the Rangers […]
It’s good to end it against the Angels, a team so bad it just got swept by the White Sox, a team so bad it just lost its one-hundred-twenty-first game of the season, the most in major league history. The Angels are so bad, Marcus Semien had one of his […]
It was Oakland’s day. There wasn’t anything the Rangers could do about it. They certainly didn’t try hard. Some 46,889 fans packed Oakland Dump.com to say fareware to their beloved team. It was the largest crowd ever for a major league team’s last home game in a city forever. These […]
In his second major league at-bat, Justin Foscue singled and eventually came around to score a run. It was the only run the Rangers would score that game in a 3-1 loss to Houston way back on April 7. He pulled a hamstring and didn’t make it back to the […]
Josh Jung is being shut down for the rest of the season. It’s probably something they should have done sooner. The human I.L. machine had his wrist broken by an errant fastball in the fourth game of the season. He had already hit two home runs and driven in six […]
