Season Record: 4-5
Week Record: 2-4
Series Record: 2-1
GAME FOUR: 5-2 Win @ Baltimore Orioles
GAME FIVE: 8-5 Win @ Baltimore Orioles
GAME SIX: 3-8 Loss @ Baltimore Orioles
GAME SEVEN: 3-5 Loss vs Cincinnati Reds
GAME EIGHT: 0-2 Loss vs Cincinnati Reds
GAME NINE: 1-2 Loss vs Cincinnati Reds
The baseball season is long and grueling. The early part of the season is a rollercoaster, as is most of the season, but the in the first few weeks it feels more like a whiplash of hope and optimism to impatience and pessimism. The Rangers gave us hope on the road, then flatlined at home.. Home games are supposed to be the exciting ones, the good ones, the winning ones, that’s why home field advantage is a thing. As is the way of scheduling, you play more games on your home field than anywhere else,
you want to be dominant.
Texas had a terrible homecoming – of their own doing. Thanks largely to the starting pitching, the Rangers had a chance in each game. The offense let us down. Outscored 9-4 against the Cincinnati Reds in their 2026 home debut, the Rangers got swept.
Although in the early part of the season where stats and standings fluctuate very quickly, in the span of a week, Texas slid from solo in first tied with the Los Angeles Angels and Seattle Mariners for second, now all behind the Houston Astros.
And of course it’s way too early to watch the standings like this. However, if the series against the Reds is a peek at how the Rangers will be playing for the next few weeks, we might not have to pay attention to the standings because it’ll be too far gone.
This weekend series was one worth forgetting because it was brutal to watch. Most of the lineup looked lost and for a team that had the lowest swing rate in spring training, a third of the lineup seems to chase everything. Joc Pederson bought himself some time with his game-tying home run in Sunday’s game but I’m not sure how much longer this team can go with his inconsistent and unproductive bat, especially in the middle of the lineup.
When the team was in Baltimore, they seemed to have addressed the issue from last season that arose in Philadelphia too in that the Rangers relied on home runs to score. Against the Orioles they proved to be able to string together strategic hitting. However, against the Reds they stranded seven runners in the first game and then eight in each of the next two games.
In this four game losing streak, it has become glaringly obvious that another issue of the 2025 Texas Rangers were not solved in the off season. We didnt add any proven closers to this year’s pen, so we knew things could be bumpy. And when Chris Martin and Robert Garcia are the go-to high leverage guys you have to hold your breath for every game.
I realize this is all a very small sample size, we are through nine games of a 162 game season, so I’m very aware this week does not a season make. However, it’ll be telling how they handle the upcoming week against two playoff teams in the Seattle Mariners, and then on the road against the reigning World Series champions Los Angeles Dodgers.
