Round 2 starts today. And if was anything like Round 1, or the preliminary double header on Monday, it’s going to be a great day of baseball watching. They call it the Divisional Series, and this time that’s almost correct. In the National League, New York plays divisional rival Philadelphia, […]
The Astros are now one loss away from being eliminated in the playoffs. They have been to the Championship Series seven years in a row. A loss today or tomorrow would end that streak. A betting man would be unwise to wager against the Astros at this point based on […]
What a game. This is what makes baseball so much fun. It’s the impossible and the improbable. The first game of yesterday’s season-ending doubleheader was one of the most fun baseball games you’ll ever watch. Mainly because, if you’re a Rangers fan, you didn’t have to suffer through the agony of […]
Well, it’s over. Finally, mercifully over. It was an 8-0 win, a meaningless final game in a season that has been meaningless since the end of May. You can pinpoint the exact day, in fact. May 21. The Rangers lost to the Phillies 5-2 on May 21 to slip under […]
It was Oakland’s day. There wasn’t anything the Rangers could do about it. They certainly didn’t try hard. Some 46,889 fans packed Oakland Dump.com to say fareware to their beloved team. It was the largest crowd ever for a major league team’s last home game in a city forever. These […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
