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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
And with yesterday’s loss to Seattle, the Rangers suffered their eighty-second loss of the season. They will not finish over .500. The Rangers will join an inglorious list of, now, eleven teams to finish under .500 the year after winning the World Series. Yesterday was a perfect encapsulation of the […]
Maybe Jack Leiter isn’t ready for the major leagues, but he is ready for a nickname. The rookie has now appeared in eight major league games, and has allowed multiple earned run in each. Last night was the fourth time in eight appearances has allowed five or more earned runs […]
