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 […]
Desperately needing offensive help, and lacking a closer, the team with the best rotation in baseball came away from the trade deadline without a bat, without a closer, but with another quality arm for their rotation, and two more set up guys. The Rangers got starter Merrill Kelly from Arizona, […]
The Rangers land in Seattle for four of the most important games they’ll play all season. Hyperbole aside, this isn’t a make-or-break series, but it is critical. With last night’s Texas 6-3 victory over Los Angeles and Seattle’s 5-4 loss to Sacramento, both teams have identical 57-52 records, five games […]
If you are a major league team, a minor league team, a fantasy baseball team, or even a slow pitch softball team, and you want to beat the Texas Rangers, just throw a left-handed pitcher against them. It doesn’t have to be a All-Star lefty. It doesn’t even need to […]
In the Baseball Makes No Sense category, last night’s game is a prime example. How does Jak Kochanowicz beat Jacob deGrom? How do the Angels strike out thirteen times and walk just once, yet score six runs? How do the Rangers walk seven times to go with six hits and […]
