Mariners 5, Rangers 0
Mariners 5, Rangers 0
- Two hits.
- And one of them was by Andrew Knizner, which is how we know the baseball gods are fucking with us.
- I remind myself that the Rangers won it all in 2023. What I’d been waiting my whole life to see. I said with that they could go 0-162 this year and I wouldn’t care.
- The Rangers of late seem like they want to test me on this.
- Normally I’d be writing about Dane Dunning’s weird performance today in what might be his last start before moving into the bullpen for a while, how he struck out eight but also needed 98 pitches to get the 4.2 innings pitched because he seemingly was averaging 7 pitches per batter and everything kept getting fouled off.
- Or Jacob Latz quietly continuing to do good work, lowering his ERA to 2.70, or Jose Leclerc feeding his gopher, or Cole Winn’s frustrating ninth.
- But no, no one cares about any of that, none of that really matters, because of the wet fart that is the Rangers offense right now.
- Logan Gilbert is really good and all, but when Adolis Garcia is batting third and still only gets three plate appearances in the game, that’s a sign the offense had a really bad day at the offense.
- But as we have discussed, these types of outings have become routine from the offense. And yes, Josh Jung is coming back soon, and he was 2 for 3 for the Express tonight, but this offense isn’t going to be solved with the return of Josh Jung. The Rangers offense hasn’t just gone into the ditch — they’ve careened into the ditch, flipped over a few times, exploded, and set a grass fire.
- I hesitate to even use the term “nadir” right now, because I’m fearful they are going to prove me wrong, find an extra suckage gear, and go even lower.
- This offense is a traveshamockery.
- Dane Dunning’s sinker reached 90.7 mph. Jacob Latz hit 95.3 mph on his fastball. Jose Leclerc hit 96.5 mph on a sinker. Cole Winn’s fastball topped out at 97.0 mph.
- Nathaniel Lowe had a 103.6 mph double and a 101.2 mph line out. Adolis Garcia had a 101.0 mph lineout.
- Home again, home again, jiggity jog. Hopefully things go better at the Shed.