You can sum up last night’s game in one word. Sloppy. The field was sloppy from rain. The Rangers offense was sloppy from lack of hitting ability. The defense was sloppy in the sixth inning, as was Jacob Latz, allowing four runs to score. Jacob Latz, who is horrible this […]

The Rangers just completed the best three games offensively of the year. They scored eleven runs on Friday and eight on Sunday. They got hits with two outs. They played small ball. They had sustained rallies. For three games, at least, they looked like the team everyone expected them to […]

There appear to be signs of life. They are not yet ready to take them off life support and disconnect the oxygen machine so they can breathe on their own. But it’s the first positive eye twitch. After breaking out for eleven runs on Friday night and then customarily being […]

It was to be expected. After the worst offense in baseball had a brief shining moment Friday night, it reverted to its real self. turns out, that was their May Day. It was reminiscent of their April Day. The Rangers scored eleven runs Friday. Zero Saturday. The Rangers got fifteen hits […]

Maybe the Rangers have their new closer. They came into the season ignoring that singularly important role, figuring they would just toss someone in there and see what happens.  That someone was Luke Jackson. When Jackson gave up three runs on opening day, you got the feeling he wasn’t the […]

For the second consecutive day, the Rangers were unable to score a run. The only difference last night was they didn’t have a game. All the other times, they just didn’t have game. The Little Team That Couldn’t was off Thursday. Off in a different way than they are usually […]

Maybe we were wrong about the Rangers all along. Maybe they are not a baseball team. Maybe they are a soccer club, a futbol club. FC Rangers. They certainly score like one.  There’s an old joke, “I wish I had a dollar for every point scored in a soccer game.” […]

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 […]

Why bother? It’s like being a weatherman in Texas in August. Hot, no rain yesterday. Hot, no rain today. Hot, no rain tomorrow. Hot, no rain the next day. The Rangers are a broken record of a song you don’t want to hear. Why bother talking about them if they […]

So, what was that ninth inning? Signs of life? Or just a fluke? Yes, it came against a bad team. But so are the Rangers. Only one team has a worse road record than Texas and that was the team they were playing. At home.  After scoring two runs in […]