Rangers
10, Jays 4
- A game like this makes me even more frustrated about the past week.
- I don’t know. There was the eighth inning which took three relievers to get three outs, which did prompt flashbacks of Wednesday and Friday, prompting fears that Texas would end up blowing an 8-1 lead. If that had happened I’m not sure yall would have ever heard from me again.
- The loss on Wednesday put a spike through my soul. The one on Friday hammered it in deeper.
- It made me aggressively not want to think about baseball.
- But maybe you can isolate, you can focus on a sliver, an individual performance, do an extreme zoom in. Zoom in on Nathan Eovaldi, say.
- Nathan Eovaldi’s performance this season is such that if we zoom in on that, we can be rewarded.
- Two home runs allowed today by Eovaldi, which means five in his last five games. They were both solo homers, though. Only three other hits allowed by Eovaldi, no walks, six strikeouts.
- Eovaldi went seven innings. He’s trying to get enough innings to qualify for the ERA race. He now has 123 innings and the Rangers have played 125 games, so seven innings his next time out would get him the.
- Of course the next game the Rangers would play would mean that he would be an inning short, and then two, and then…
- It’s a 1.76 ERA for Eovaldi now. He’s having a remarkable season.
- Meanwhile the offense is not having a remarkable season, but they still scored ten runs today, and it kind of makes me mad, because the Rangers are a game under .500 and their playoff chances are just about shot and it’s the failures of the offense that is the prime reason for that.
- And Marcus Semien homers, and Evan Carter homers, and Corey Seager hits a ridiculous pop fly homer and Wyatt Langford hits a homer and it’s a reminder of what could have, what should have, been this year.
- Nathan Eovaldi’s fastball topped out at 95.6 mph, averaging 94.2 mph. Hoby Milner hit 87.9 mph with his sinker. Cole Winn’s fastball maxed out at 97.7 mph. Shawn Armstrong touched 93.6 mph with his fastball.
- Wyatt Langford had a 111.0 mph home run, a 101.2 mph ground out and a 100.7 mph single. Corey Seager had a 105.0 mph double and a 100.2 mph fly out. Cody Freeman had a 104.3 mph ground out, a 102.2 mph double and a 100.7 mph ground out. Josh Smith had a 101.3 mph force out. Marcus Semien had a 101.1 mph home run. Evan Carter had a 100.3 mph line out and a 100.1 mph home run. Now on to Kansas City. Yippee.
