Old school baseball is back. When you don’t have a great bullpen, just get a starter who can go all nine innings. Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw his second straight complete game in the postseason, beating the Blue Jays 5-1, and evending the World Series at a game apiece. This used to […]
Any fan of baseball has to appreciate the way the Blue Jays play the game. It’s all about making contact. Eliminating the strikeout. Putting the ball in play and seeing what happens. It’s the opposite of the Rangers approach the past two seasons. And it helped them overcome a juggernaut […]
You have to hand to Detroit. After authoring the biggest collapse in major league history, blowing a fifteen-and-a-half-game lead over Cleveland in the A.L. Central, they faced those same Guardians, and knocked them out of the playoffs. Their offense finally got mad, finally showed their embarrassment and humiliation, and finally […]
For the eighth time in the last nine years, the playoffs have started without the Rangers. The idea that they are building a winning tradition of baseball here is a myth. Either they are incompetent. Or they are lying. Jon Daniels had early success as the Rangers general manager, then […]
You knew it wouldn’t last. You knew it was too good to last. The Rangers offense and never-say-die spirit from Monday didn’t carry over Tuesday. It couldn’t carry over Tuesday because those random acts of offense are just that, random. Fact is, .220 hitters are .220 hitters for a reason, […]
MLB held its annual Home Run Derby on Monday. The event was so popular, they did it again on Tuesday to determine the All-Star Game winner. For some reason, the worst slight ever done to humanity was in 2002 when, after eleven innings, the All-Star Game was declared a tie. […]
All the demons came out to haunt the Rangers last night. Their inability to hit with runners in scoring position. Their penchant for striking out. Their lack of a closer. The trifecta of frustration. The Rangers were 2-for-13 with runners in scoring position. They loaded the bases in the first […]
At 40-41, the Rangers have reached the halfway point of the season. Eighty-one games down. Eighty-one games to go. It’s been a slog. It’s been the tale of two half-seasons. The Rangers have gotten dominating pitching. In the fifty-five years the team has been in Arlington, this is the best […]
This is what the Rangers were supposed to do. They’ve done it in the past and have always reverted to an inability to hit. And every time they do this, we get our hopes up. A 16-4 thumping is wonderful to see. It was wonderful when they put fifteen runs […]
Most baseball fans recognize the significance of the number 56. That’s the number of consecutive games Joe DiMaggio got a hit in. And every time some player starts to inch close to that, all eyes are on him. Pete Rose got the closest, with 44 games, in 1978. There’s another […]
