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An extra-inning loss.

With the Rangers season on the line, they put the ball in the hands of Gerson Garabito. He’s a career nine-year minor leaguer who has appeared in 163 games and had one save, picked up in 2021 in Triple-A Sacramento. After taking the ball in the bottom of the tenth, […]


Rangers lineup wakes up.

The Rangers got offensive support from the most unlikely sources last night: from the Rangers lineup. Down 3-0 in the bottom of the fourth, after having given up two runs in the top of the inning, it appeared to be another game where the Rangers hibernating offense was going to […]


Rangers playing wrong sport.

The Texas Rangers scored another run yesterday. That’s two in two days. There’s an old saying about the endless fighting in hockey, “I went to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out.” The Rangers are turning that phrase on its ear. “I tuned into a Rangers game and […]


Bats go silent again.

It came. It went. Nothing happened. The Rangers pretty much sat out this year’s trade deadline. Last year, they transformed the team with Aroldis Chapman, Jordan Montgomery, and Max Scherzer. This year, they swapped a lackluster backup catcher for a better backup catcher (but still, a backup catcher) and picked […]


29th out of 30.

There are thirty teams in major league baseball. The Rangers outfield rakes twenty-ninth in offense. That should come as no surprise. Wyatt Langford and Evan Carter have pretty much occupied left field this year. Both are what could be considered rookie busts. Taveras has pretty much occupied center. He is […]


Embarrassing.

And with that, the hope for winning the division disappeared. The Rangers trip to Seattle ended in embarrassment. Being shutout was the punctuation of their ineptitude. They went into Seattle 5.5 games out and could have made a real difference in the division. Instead, all they made was a thud. […]


Weird things happen.

Benjie Molina hit for the cycle. Bartolo Colon hit a home run. Joe Neikro’s only career home run came off his brother Phil. Weird things happen in baseball. Unexplained things. Things so bizarre you nobody ever could see them coming. A guy once threw two no-hitters in a row. A […]


Robertson is human.

There is never a good time to have a bad game. Never a good time to have your first bad game of the season. But everybody has a bad day eventually. David Robinson is no different. After being a godsend to this tattered Rangers bullpen, he was due a bad […]


Hope is coming.

Twenty-six games into the season and the Rangers are treading water, trying to find their footing, trying to get something to work consistently. There are bright skies on the horizon, though. Josh Sborz was activated off the IL yesterday. That gives Bochy three relievers he can trust, along with Robertson […]


Bradford improves to 3-0.

Who is the best pitcher in baseball? Who is 3-0 after three starts? Only one pitcher. Cody Bradford. Other pitchers are 3-0, but they’ve had more than three starts. Tyler Glasnow, Shelby Miller, and Luke Weaver. But the Rangers fifth starter, who seemed to be on the bubble, has had […]