Rangers heat up some leftovers at the Grill for a fast homestand: HOU @ TEX 6/13-15

[DT LUNA]

Can Tinoco be our future closer?

 

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Would like to see Huff getting more AB

 

[DT LUNA]

El Duran

 

[Kelleyman]

Let’s see if we can take this home

 

[DT LUNA]

No Barlow....ok

 

[DT LUNA]

We Win

 

[Bmurph]

W

 

[Senator_fan]

Moore throws 6 strikes, no balls to close the game out. 4 were in the low 80’s. You don’t have to throw 100 mph to slam the door.

 

[Bmurph]

No Barlow....ok

Did you hear the idiot announcers say Matt Moore looked nervous closing out the game. Had gotten 2 outs and neither of the first two batters sniffed getting on base. Well except for the CF and RF almost running into each other

 

[DTC]

Semien now has a higher batting average than Seager

 

[Duane1952]

Nice rally by the Rangers.

 

[TheLonestarDUCK]

Boooooom

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Did you hear the idiot announcers say Matt Moore looked nervous closing out the game. Had gotten 2 outs and neither of the first two batters sniffed getting on base. Well except for the CF and RF almost running into each other

didn't catch the last two innings, but I don't think I've ever seen Moore looking "nervous." he's definitely earned the right to get some 9th innings.

 

[jta4437]

didn't catch the last two innings, but I don't think I've ever seen Moore looking "nervous." he's definitely earned the right to get some 9th innings.

Certainly, but I'd like Barlow to get it together, because he has much better stuff

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Certainly, but I'd like Barlow to get it together, because he has much better stuff

he's in the same boat as Hearn, in my opinion. good stuff but can't hit his spots.

 

[scotsman1948]

Hoping Leodo produces. Wonder how long this IL will be for White

the report is he will have surgery today and that it requires a minimum of 6 weeks before he can start doing any baseball activity add on a couple of weeks to get back in playing form. so we're looking at mid to late August if he's lucky

 

[scotsman1948]

he's in the same boat as Hearn, in my opinion. good stuff but can't hit his spots.

he seems to not be listening to Perez or anyone else but after the 1st 2-innings where he gave up 3 runs and 6 hits, he shut the Ast**s on 1 hit and a couple of walks for the next 3.1 innings

 

[True Rangers Fan]

he seems to not be listening to Perez or anyone else

it's not a matter of listening to people. i can have 10 people give me 10 tips on how to hit my irons better; even if what they say is exactly right and I do exactly what they say, it doesn't mean I'm going to hit my irons better. if there was some sort of way you could just tell a pitcher to throw like an ace, every team would have 5 aces.

Taylor's got the arm, but his pitches with movement have too much movement and don't really fool anyone. he's shown flashes of good pitching but he's not consistent with it yet. a lot of that comes with experience, which takes time. ideally, you want to see Taylor having a strong second half of this season. to me that would demonstrate growth.

 

[scotsman1948]

it's not a matter of listening to people. i can have 10 people give me 10 tips on how to hit my irons better; even if what they say is exactly right and I do exactly what they say, it doesn't mean I'm going to hit my irons better. if there was some sort of way you could just tell a pitcher to throw like an ace, every team would have 5 aces.

Taylor's got the arm, but his pitches with movement have too much movement and don't really fool anyone. he's shown flashes of good pitching but he's not consistent with it yet. a lot of that comes with experience, which takes time. ideally, you want to see Taylor having a strong second half of this season. to me that would demonstrate growth.

his problem is not the quality of the pitches he throws, it is the location that hurts him. apparently after the second he started hitting the edges and was throwing with better accuracy that tempted the Ast** hitters to chase. if he would only do that to start games

 

[True Rangers Fan]

his problem is not the quality of the pitches he throws, it is the location that hurts him. apparently after the second he started hitting the edges and was throwing with better accuracy that tempted the Ast** hitters to chase. if he would only do that to start games

yep