Phillies come to the Globe May 16-18

[romeo212000]

Napoli hasn't sucked tonight.

 

[DT LUNA]

Nap at just the right time

 

[DT LUNA]

WINWINWIN

 

[Nightcrawler]

Longest win streak in the majors right now.

 

[jta4437]

Unfortunately, it looks like the Rangers were the only team who could beat the Astros the past few seasons. Now that we can't seem to beat them either, they are unstoppable right now.

It's been ONE series

 

[PhantomWarrior]

It's been ONE series

Yes and we were in a bad way that series.

 

[saddles]

If Gallo could just hit .240 I'd be absolutely thrilled.

I was thinking today that if he just got one more hit each week for an entire season it could be the difference in him hitting .200 and .250.

 

[Nightcrawler]

It's been ONE series

The other part of my statement is true tho. Seems like nobody can beat them.

 

[saddles]

I'm surprised the Ticket had Eickhoff starting tonight and ESPN/and earlier poster from Philly didn't.

Heard his stats earlier today, and he's struggling big time.

He has had 3 bad games in a row after the first 4 were pretty good.

 

[saddles]

The other part of my statement is true tho. Seems like nobody can beat them.

That tends to happen when you have a really good team.

 

[saddles]

From 8 years ago.

Hamilton's catch on the wall

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

Darvish is the fastest Rangers and Japanese pitcher to reach 50 career wins.

 

[donaldson79]

JD will be on the Ticket around 10:30 this morning.

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

JD will be on the Ticket around 10:30 this morning.

Darvish contract/Japan trip-centric, I imagine.

 

[donaldson79]

Norm poised the "are their talks on-going with Darvish re: an extension" to JD and Daniels said in essence, "not really". But he did say the relationship between Yu, his agent and the team is very, very good. Pretty important.

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

Norm poised the "are their talks on-going with Darvish re: an extension" to JD and Daniels said in essence, "not really". But he did say the relationship between Yu, his agent and the team is very, very good. Pretty important.

Part of me wonders, probably foolishly, if the Rangers are well aware of how much Darvish values privacy and publicly play things close to the vest accordingly.

 

[saddles]

Jairo Beras is put on the mound in a blowout and reaches 98MPH.

 

[saddles]

The ignorance by certain members of the media as regards to Yu Darvish is astonishing at times. I was listening to George Dunham talk about Yu this morning and he seems to think Yu has finally turned a corner and that his last 5 games are the best of his career. He thinks a 5 game stretch where Yu has thrown 34 innings and given up 9 ER is his best 5 game stretch. I like George, but he couldn't be more wrong.

Let's start in the beginning of his career here. You only have to go as far as Darvish's second through his sixth starts for the Rangers back in 2012 to find a stretch where he threw only two-thirds less innings and gave up 3 less ER. You can work your way forward starting from the beginning of his career with the Rangers and find several 5 game stretches where he has pitched as well or better. Right as the 2012 season was about to end Darvish threw 37 innings over a 5 game stretch while only giving up 6 ER. He had 3 different 5 game stretches in 2013 that were just as good or better. Yu is going great right now, but he has certainly done the same thing before.

 

[BULLPEN FAILURE]

The ignorance by certain members of the media as regards to Yu Darvish is astonishing at times. I was listening to George Dunham talk about Yu this morning and he seems to think Yu has finally turned a corner and that his last 5 games are the best of his career. He thinks a 5 game stretch where Yu has thrown 34 innings and given up 9 ER is his best 5 game stretch. I like George, but he couldn't be more wrong.

Granted, it's been over a decade since I was a Ticket listener, and I was always more of a Hardline/Bad Radio fan, but I don't remember baseball being the Musers strength.

 

[donaldson79]

Part of me wonders, probably foolishly, if the Rangers are well aware of how much Darvish values privacy and publicly play things close to the vest accordingly.

Hadn't thought of it that way but it sure seems to make sense to me. Good pick up sir.