Rangers outfielders made two spectacular plays yesterday, beating the Phillies outfield fielders in spectacular plays. If the score of games was determined by spectacular plays, the Rangers would have won 2-0. Unfortunately, for the last few years, games are determined by how more many times one team’s players touch home […]
The first two games of this Philadelphia series taught us one thing. The Rangers are not an elite team. They simply don’t have the offense to be serious. Not against a Philadelphia Phillies team that is leading the N.L. East and has a great chance to be in the World […]
The 60s surf band The Ventures had a huge hit called Walk Don’t Run in 1960. It should be the Rangers theme song. Last night they walked nine Phillies. And they ran one one of their baserunners across home plate, stranding ten runners on base in a 9-1 loss to […]
Next up, a three-game series with the N.L. East leading Phillies. After beating the Yankees two out of three, if they can do the same thing about Philadelphia, that would be huge. The Rangers have played 116 games and still have so many question marks. The offense is better but […]
When things are going bad for a player, it seems like misfortune finds them no matter where they are hiding. Right now, Robert Garcia cannot hide. Yesterday he gave up the game-losing home run in the Rangers 302 loss to the Yankees. But Garcia’s woes haven’t been a recent occurrence. […]
It might be cruel to get satisfaction out of someone else’s misery. But when that someone else is a Yankees fan and that misery is their collective hearts breaking because they have now lost five in a row, the last two to the Rangers, and are in danger of not […]
Joc Pederson hit the most unlikely home run in of the season for the Rangers. The Designated “Hitter” with a .120 batting average, two home runs and just eight RBIs came up with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning and the Rangers trailing 5-4, and hit a […]
The Rangers came out of that road trip going 2-5. Two of those five losses were pinned on Jacob deGrom, who is suddenly very human, and very hittable, after a first half where he was neither. That’s two games in a row now where he allowed five earned runs per […]
Rangers closer Robert Garcia left the game yesterday in the eleventh inning due to injury. At first it was reported to be due to a left scapula spasm, then that was changed to a mid-back spasm. The injury appears to be much less severe than originally thought and Garcia will […]
You could say the Rangers had it coming. They failed to get the bat they need or the closer they need. Interestingly enough, and probably not surprising, both failures immediately came back to bite them. The first game after their failure to improve the offense, they failed to score. The […]
