From Lone Star Ball

  • Powerless Texas Rangers go down in homestand opener against Cleveland

    The Texas Rangers didn’t score but the Cleveland Guardians scored seven runs. Home cooking was not the cure of what ails the bats of the Rangers, apparently. The good news is Marcus Semien collected Texas’ first extra base hit — a double — in their last 19 innings. The game was 4-0 by that point and he was not driven in. Player of the Game: Michael Lorenzen is the latest starter to be saddled with a no-decision in a performance worthy of a victory as he flirted with a no-hitter while ultimately...

  • Texas Rangers really hate their mothers, lose to Colorado Rockies

    The Texas Rangers scored a pitiful one run while the Colorado Rockies scored three runs. The Rangers, who lead the American League in runs scored somehow, are 20th in baseball and 12th in their own league in ISO at .137. Today, the Rangers outhit the Rockies nine to seven but each of Texas’ nine hits were singles whereas Colorado had a couple of extra base hits, including a two-run home run, literally the difference in the game. Right now, and for much of the year, if the Rangers aren’t...

  • Sunday morning Rangers things

    Good morning, folks The Texas Rangers fell to the Colorado Rockies by a score of 8-3 last night. Evan Grant’s game story talks about a “sloppy loss” in Colorado. Evan also offers up his Final Thoughts from the defeat. Evan Carter, meanwhile, was not in the lineup on Saturday due to lower back stiffness. Max Scherzer cut a throwing session short on Saturday due to triceps soreness. Scherzer also weigh in on pitcher injuries, saying the sticky stuff ban is the reason for the recent increase. David...

  • 22-19 - Rangers get further embarrassed by worst team in baseball

    The Texas Rangers scored three runs while the Colorado Rockies scored eight runs. Player of the Game: I don’t know. Rockies’ mascot Dinger probably made a child smile at their first big league ballgame tonight. Up Next: A pitcher to be named (perhaps RHP Jose Urena) for Texas will face a pitcher to be named (perhaps RHP Dakota Hudson) for Colorado. The Sunday afternoon finale from Coors Field is set for 2:10 pm CT and will be aired on BS Southwest.

  • Texas Rangers lose to baseball’s worst team

    The Texas Rangers scored two runs but the Colorado Rockies scored four runs. After scoring in double digits in three of their last six contests on this road trip, you’d have thought that a trip to Coors Field would have kept the runs flowing but the Rangers ran into another left-handed starter that not even lineup savior Robbie Grossman could solve which led to a pitchers’ duel with Jon Gray on the mound for Texas. Gray, for as good as he’s been so far this season, was uncharacteristically...

  • Texas Rangers news, rumors and links for May 10

    Good morning, LSB. The Rangers were off yesterday. That didn't stop them from adding another to the injured list. Shawn McFarland has some silver linings despite like, literally half the roster now being injured. Elsewhere Evan Grant has an update on the rookie of the year watch. MLB dot com lists each team’s most surprising development thus far into the 2024 season. And TR Sullivan continues his Boys of Arlington series with the knuckleballer Charlie Hough. That's all for this morning. The...

  • Texas Rangers News and Links - May 07

    Good morning. Shawn McFarland has some observations on the Texas Rangers pulling off another comeback win in what looked like a snoozer for much of the evening in Oakland. Jeff Wilson had just written about how Texas’ comeback win in the finale from Kansas City on Sunday was rare for Texas in recent years when they pulled off another one in Oakland last evening. Kennedi Landry writes that it was Corey Seager that came through with the two-out, three-run home run to give the Rangers a lead and...

  • 17-15 — Bats come alive, pitchers stay hot in 6-0 win

    The Rangers hitters were apparently sufficiently shamed by Wednesday’s performance that they got their act together and scored some runs. And Nathan Eovaldi pitched great until a tight groooooooiiiiiiiinnnn ended his day in the sixth. Player of the Game: Jonah Heim, who has had some struggles early on, went 2 for 3 with a pair of runs scored, a walk and an RBI.

  • Texas Rangers revert back to inept offense with loss to Washington

    The Texas Rangers didn’t score while the Washington Nationals scored a run. Well, so much for the bats figuring it out after last night. Instead of Jon Gray suffering a 1-0 loss, it was Andrew Heaney. The Rangers had nine opportunities with runners in scoring position and scored zero runs. They left 11 on base. They out-hit the Nationals, in fact. Washington only had two chances with RISP and left one on base all night. Texas even managed to blow not one but two bases loaded, zero out...

  • Thoughts

    Rangers 7, Nationals 1 It didn't look like it at first, but it ended up being a nice little night for the Rangers offense. Also, it didn't...

  • Texas Rangers close out April with easy win over Washington Nationals

    The Texas Rangers scored seven runs while the Washington Nationals scored one run. I have to admit, as soon as CJ Abrams reached on an infield single up the line at first base, stole second, and then scored on a dunker with two-out in the first inning, and with the bats following by going down in like eight pathetic pitches in the bottom of the frame, I thought, “uh oh, this has Jon Gray start written all over it.” Gray has had a tendency to draw the shortest straw in regards to run support...