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 […]
With one week left in the season, there are no divisional races. All six division winners have been finalized. The New York Yankees will win the A.L. East, the Cleveland Guardians the A.L. Central, and the Houston Astros the A.L. West. In the National League, the Philadelphia Phillies clinched the […]
It’s been a while since Marcus Semien was the guy getting the bucket of Gatorade poured on him. He’s had a bad year offensively in 2024. But, it was to be expected. That’s the pattern of his career. Every odd year, Semien puts up Most Valuable Player numbers. Every even […]
