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 a soccer match broke out.”

Suddenly, you realize the Rangers are playing an entirely different sport. 

They are playing soccer while everyone else is playing baseball. Scoring a point in soccer is a major accomplishment. Teams celebrate for weeks on end when they score a point. It usually happens once a month. Legend has it, one soccer team, somewhere deep in the mountains of South America, once scored two points in a single season.

So, the Rangers should take pride in knowing, they scored a run in two consecutive games. They have an off day today. That means they are guaranteed to score only one fewer run today than they did last night, or Tuesday night. 

The Cardinals acquired a bat at the trade deadline. Tommy Pham. He could have gone anywhere. The Rangers weren’t able to get him. St Louis was able. His first game after the trade deadline, he went 1-for-2, with that one hit being a grand slam. Then, last night, he went 3-for-4 with two more runs batted in.

That kind of production would have looked nice for the Rangers. But, alas, they stood pat at the trade deadline and didn’t upgrade on offense. 

But, they are getting better. A game after collecting four hits, on Wednesday, they collected five. 

The Rangers soccer schedule resumes Friday with a match against Boston.

Yawn.

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