Watching the Blue Jays and Rangers flail around blindly isn’t baseball. It’s futility.

These games are pitchers’ duels. They are dueling derelicts.

Monday, it was the Blue Jays winning 2-1. Last night, the Rangers won 2-0. In reality, neither team won. And the real losers are the fans who suffer through all that failure.

Yes, hitting a baseball is difficult. And, as has been said more than a billion times, baseball is a game of failure, where a batter who fails seven out of ten times is among the best in his profession. But what the Rangers display on a nightly baseball isn’t the normal failure of baseball. It’s a team that is overmatched. It’s a collection of players that don’t now how to play situational baseball, and a manager who doesn’t play small ball.

It took eight innings for the Rangers to finally break through with a run. They didn’t have many opportunities. They rarely do. When they do get opportunities, they die on the vine. Runners on are left on. Never bunted over. Never productive outs. Just outs.

The announcers even use the term “scoring position,” as if the Rangers are ever in a position to score. This is a team void of power, unable to muster anything but an occasional single. 

Their best scoring opportunities are when the other team makes an error. They don’t earn runs, they are gifted them. 

So, are we to be happy the Rangers won 2-0? Yes, all wins are a good thing, especially for a team that has no business being this close to .500. 

Corey Seager is due back today. For how long remains to be seen. But maybe Seager and Alejandro Osuna can create enough of a spark the Rangers have been missing the first third of the season.

Because their boring brand of baseball is bordering on being unwatchable.

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