With thirty-six games left, the Rangers move on to Kansas City to play four games against a Royals team that leapfrogged them in the wild card race. Then they play three against the Guardians, who have also passed them in the wild card race. Beating Toronto yesterday helped Texas avoid […]

Jon Gray was put on waivers on Thursday. Nobody claimed him. A team had forty-eight hours to pick him up. Nobody did.  So, the Rangers kept him. They even pitched him yesterday. He gave up four runs in 2.1 innings. That kind of performance is why they put him on […]

Remember, these are just glorified exhibition games. They mean nothing. Relax. Don’t let your blood pressure rise. The Rangers 2025 playoff run is over. It’s all paperwork from here on out. The most frustrating season, capped by the most frustrating trade deadline, came to an emotional end on Wednesday when […]

Marcus Semien had a bad first half two months of the season. On May 28, he was batting .173 and had been dropped to the bottom of the order. Then, out of the blue, on May 30, he went 4-for-4. He had another four-hit game on July 10, going 4-for-5. […]

At 61-61, the Rangers have forty games left. Any hope that they could make the playoff went sailing over the right field wall in the top of the ninth yesterday, turning a 4-3 Rangers lead into a 6-4 Rangers loss. While they are not officially eliminated from playoff contention, yesterday’s […]

All season, the pitching has bailed out the offense. Nobody’s pitching has been better than Nathan Eovaldi. And nobody’s offense has been worse than the Texas Rangers. On the night Eovaldi has his one bad game of the year, he gives up five runs in just five innings and Jon […]

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 […]