When you look down the Rangers’ roster, you see all kinds of names that you’d expect to lead the offense and have a six RBI game.  Josh Hamilton, Adrian Beltre, Nelson Cruz, Maybe David Murphy if the stars aligned.  But Brandon Snyder?  You wouldn’t expect Brandon Snyder to lead the team offensively.  And on a night when there was a ton of offense as well (14 runs, 19 hits), his totals were the best of all.  You actually have to feel good about something like that.  Even if you’re an Orioles fan.  When the game was over and I looked at the stats, I thought, “Good for him – GOOD for freakin him”.   [Read more…]

Rangers lost to the Indians on Sunday afternoon, handing Yu Darvish his first loss.  That was our second consecutive series loss.  Nothing to panic about at all – in fact, see my remark about Rangers fans panicking too early that appeared on TXA 21.  :)

Still, you’d rather see wins than losses.

Still, UGH.

That’ll work!

Ugh.  Thanks blue.

Matt Harrison started this game and made everything nice that people have been saying about his pitching lately look like crap, as he stunk up the joint pretty good.   He didn’t get out of the fourth, and in that time, gave up EIGHT hits, coupled with two walks for EIGHT big earned runs.  Blew up his ERA to 5.40.   There wasn’t much good to say about this outing.  Also, as I’m writing about it almost a week later, I don’t remember it that well, either.  Not sure I want to look up the details behind an 8 earned run 3.1IP performance, either. [Read more…]

Well, shit.

Due to an odd tech quirk, I was able to see a couple of innings of this game, and from what I saw, Yu Darvish is getting better.   I saw just up to the point where he gave up the home run to Encarnacion.  Before that, I was ACTUALLY thinking no hitter.  That didn’t happen, but we did get a stellar performance from Yu Darvish.   He went seven innings, giving up just four hits, and walking two.  Struck out NINE, and of the four hits, three were singles, and one was the solo home run.  As the old saying goes, if you’re gonna give up home runs, make ’em solo shots.  His curveball was popping, he got some of the Blue Jays to swing and miss like I’d swing and miss at a slider or some other pitch.   Darvish improved to 4-0, and has now won four of the five starts he’s made as a Ranger.  Although, I have to confess, I didn’t think he’d win that first game I was at.  Not after the first inning.  That inning seems like somewhat of a distant memory now, which is odd, given he’s only thrown a total of 33 innings as a major league pitcher.  How fickle our impressions can be, eh? [Read more…]

Taking a mulligan on this game, ran out of time to update.