What is the story about?
Rockies
7, Rangers 6
- Sometimes, you gotta mix it up a little, just to keep people on their toes.
- Take the Rangers, for example.
- The Rangers have gotten us used to close losses where the Ranger pitchers do their job, but the offense lets them down.
- You do that often enough, though, and it becomes rote. Routine. Unremarkable.
- So sometimes, you want to have a game where the offense does good things, but the Rangers still lose by one due to lousy pitching, with some crappy defense mixed in.
- And thus we have this display.
- Texas was down 6-1 after four, with MacKenzie Gore allowing two runs in the first (and being lucky it was only two), then being replaced by Peyton Gray for the second due to left lat tightness.
- It was like 40 degrees in Denver and rainy, so if you’ve got a pitch with tightness or whatever, get him out of the game. It just would’ve been nice if Gore hadn’t been bad in his limited amount of work.
- Gray ended up allowing four runs in his 2.2 innings, with two of those being directly attributable to the defense, with an Ezequiel Duran throwing error and a Josh Jung booted ball leading to two unearned runs.
- Gavin Collyer ended up allowing the final Rockies run in the sixth, which made it what was then a 7-3 game. That run, as it turned out, was kind of important.
- If Corey Seager is going to be on the injured list, its at least helpful for Justin Foscue to hit like Seager.
- In what we could have called the Justin Foscue Game, had the Rangers pulled off the comeback, the forgotten 2020 first rounder went 3 for 3, drew a walk, and was a triple shy of a cycle.
- Ezequiel Duran, who is technically filling in for Seager at shortstop, while Foscue fills in for Duran at second, where Duran has been filling in for Josh Smith, also had three hits. The two combined for six of the ten hits the Rangers had on the day.
- A big, come-from-behind win was in the Rangers’ grasp on Monday. With three runs already in in the inning, Texas had runners on second and third with two outs, but Kyle Higashioka fouled out to end the inning. Jake Burger singled to bring the go-ahead run to the plate in the ninth, but Danny Jansen popped out to end the inning.
- I think I’d rather have the hope of a comeback falling short, rather than never come back at all.
- Others may differ.
- Sometimes I will wake up in the morning after a Rangers loss, pull up B-R, look at the standings, and think to myself, hey, the Rangers’ record is a little better than I was thinking it was.
- And then I will realize that B-R just hasn’t updated the standings page yet.
- The Rangers are three games under .500, though they are still just a game back in the American League West, because the American League West is ass.
- The Athletics of Sacramento are still in first place, and still just a game up on the Rangers, because they also lost on Monday.
- Their loss was in a fashion that would be horrific if it happened to us, but which we can laugh at because it happened to a rival.
- The A’s, playing at Anaheim, went into the 9th with the score tied 0-0, and with J.T. Ginn throwing a no-hitter. The A’s scored a run in the top of the ninth, finally giving them the lead, and Ginn, at 99 pitches, was going to get the chance to close it out.
- Adam Frazier led off the bottom of the ninth with a single, busting up the no-hitter.
- Zach Neto then hit a walk off homer.
- Game over, Athletics.
- Like I said, the American League West is ass.
- MacKenzie Gore topped out at 95 mph with his fastball, averaging 94.1 mph, which is 1.3 mph below his average for the season. Peyton Gray’s fastball touched 92.3 mph. Jalen Beeks hit 93.2 mph with his fastball. Gavin Collyer’s sinker maxed out at 96.6 mph. Cole Winn’s fastball hit 95.9 mph. Jakob Junis reached 94.3 mph with his sinker.
- Justin Foscue had a 105.3 mph double, a 103.9 mph home run, and a 102.5 mph double. Ezequiel Duran has a 102.1 mph single. Josh Jung had a 100.7 mph double and a 100.3 mph ground out.
- Its bounceback time, baby. Rangers gonna win on Tuesday.
