Even with the best pitching in baseball, the Rangers are at a huge disadvantage. They are the only team in baseball that doesn’t benefit from pitching to the Rangers.

Could you imagine how much better the Rangers pitching staff would be if they got to face the Rangers bats? 

What this just completed weekend series against the Mariners proved, as if there was any doubt, was that the offense is not working, the roster is flawed, and until the Rangers make a trade for another bat or two, it will continue to be this way.

This team is just not good enough to constantly win. As has been pointed out too many times, it’s a 105-win pitching staff attached to a 110-loss offense.

Jack Leiter was, once again, very good. He held Seattle to one run through seven innings, striking out seven, walking none. 

Trouble is, he gave up one run. And that’s all the Rangers could muster from their remedial hitting efforts. On Saturday, the Rangers scored two runs in the third, got a hit in the fourth, then their offense shut down, hitless in the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth, before Semien’s single in the tenth.

On Sunday, after Evan Carter doubled and was driven in by Josh Jung in the second, all they managed were a handful of harmless singles the rest of the game, only to lose it again in extra innings because they couldn’t get the hit they needed with two bases loaded in the eleventh.

The Rangers have 78 games left. There are no heroes on that bench. There are no saviors on that roster. Nobody is going to step up and carry this team on his back.

This team cannot hit. That means they cannot win. It’s sad, because they sure can pitch.

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