Red Sox 5, Rangers 0
Red Sox 5, Rangers 0
- Twas not the Rangers day.
- Do we want to dwell on the not day of the Rangers? Do we want to think about Jack Leiter’s command issues, his failure to miss bats, the hitters’ inability to hit with runners on early in the game, and then hit at all as the game progressed?
- What would that provide us? Additional misery from an unfortunate, misbegotten game a thousand some odd miles away in the mid-day hours? Some additional insight into the failings and frailties of this baseball club?
- Texas scored zero runs. Zero. Zip. Nil. Love, if you are a tennis player, which maybe you aren’t but which the Rangers aren’t. They left 10 runners on a base, which seems like a lot, and really is I think a lot. The ratio of runners left on base to runs scored in this game, for the Texas Rangers, is ∞.
- There is a bit of hilarity here, though, in the fact that Tucker Barnhart had three hits. Was 3 for 3, in fact. That was 60% of all the hits the Rangers got in this game.
- Jacob Latz’s ERA is now 4.09. That’s the same as a type of surface cleaner. Which is better than having the ERA of a plane, I guess.
- I mention Jacob Latz, incidentally, because he pitched in this game. Was the only Ranger pitcher other than Jack Leiter, as a matter of fact. If that matters to you, which it probably doesn’t.
- I wish to issue a correction as to an earlier comment. Tucker Barnhart having three hits is not, in fact, a bit of hilarity. It is not hilarious. We apologize for the error.
- Also, this post originally said that this was a 6-0 loss. It was a 5-0 loss. We apologize for this error, as well.
- Jack Leiter’s fastball hit 98.8 mph. Jacob Latz reached 97.6 mph with his fastball.
- Josh Jung’s ninth inning fly out had an exit velocity of 107.9 mph. Joc Pederson had a 103.1 mph fly out. Tucker Barnhart had a 100.2 mph single.
- Texas now leaves Boston and goes somewhere else. I’m not really sure where, and I don’t want to figure it out, so it will remain a mystery for now.