It was to be expected. After the worst offense in baseball had a brief shining moment Friday night, it reverted to its real self. turns out, that was their May Day. It was reminiscent of their April Day.

The Rangers scored eleven runs Friday. Zero Saturday. The Rangers got fifteen hits Friday. Four Saturday.

It took Texas thirty games to score double-digit runs. They did that April 29 in a 15-2 trouncing of Sacramento. The next game they scored one run, then zero, then one, then one. After that 15-2 game, they lost four in a row and seven of nine. 

There was no reason to think Friday’s game would resurrect the offense. It didn’t Saturday. It’s doubtful it will in the future. 

The calendar turns to June. Two months of the season are behind the Rangers, after an entire season last year. This is not a slump. This is a portrait of a the offense.

The month was particularly brutal for five Rangers who fell off the side of the earth in May.  The struggles of Adolis Garcia and Marcus Semien are well known. But they weren’t the two worst perpetrators of the offensive disappearing act in May. That distinction belongs to the one-two hitters in the lineup.

Adolis Garcia was bad in May, and so was Marcus Semien, whose May numbers took an ever so slight uptick in May, from abysmal to abysmal-plus. It’s interesting to note how many times Higashioka has DHed. He was never an offensive threat, and still isn’t. But in a team full of blind hitters, it seems the one who is less clinical blind will have to do.

It would be refreshing to say that now that the calendar has turned to June, there’s no way these guys can get any worse. But there’s no reason to think they will get much better. Not until they do it. And for more than one night a month.

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